One of the freshly weeded gardens in Solome Abalo’s farm …
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Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile
Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile By Matata Benzamin Arua: Monday, February 16, 2025 In the heart of Arua City, a woman’s passion for farming has turned into a thriving business empire. Caroline Lilly Ocanda, a 56, …
Read More »LIRA WOMEN FARMERS TURN TO SOLAR IRRIGATION FARMING TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
BY JOSEPH OKUL LIRA: Thursday, February 6, 2025 As an experienced farmer for over two decades, Judith Ayo, a resident of Alepo village, Ayamo parish, Bar sub county expressed high hopes that her recent adoption of solar powered irrigation will gradually lead to increasing her annual incomes. Ayo grows cabbage …
Read More »COVID-19 RESPONSE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNDING CHANGING THE HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE IN WEST NILE
A section of the emergence call and dispatch center in Arua BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK Monday, January 20, 2025 When the Ministry of Health of Uganda took a bold step to stop importation of Covid-19 …
Read More »WHY INPUTS AND MARKET DISCOUNT MODELS COULD SPUR UPTAKE OF SOIL TESTING SERVICES BY SMALL-HOLDER FARMERS IN NORTHERN UGANDA
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU Saturday, January 18, 2025 Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, the rigidity of northern Uganda farmers on traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing and low penetration by private soil testing actors …
Read More »ANDRIVU CHRISTIANS FEEL AT PEACE UNDER FAVOUR PRAYER CHURCH MINISTRIES
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025 After years of struggling, Margaret Alezuyo, a resident of Andrivu, in Arua city says they feels at peace as the church came under the management of FAVOUR Prayer Church Ministries. Alezuyo began embracing spiritual worship after she was perturbed by instability at …
Read More »ONDUPARAKA FOOTBALL CLUB FANS BEGINS SH250M MOBILIZATION FOR MINI-BUS
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025 In a bid to assuage the club fortunes and drive down operational costs, the Onduparaka Football Club Fans’ Association has launched a mobilization drive for sh250m to purchase an omni-bus to transport players. Transport is one of the biggest expenses draining club …
Read More »OUT OF SEVERE ILLNESS, A CHURCH WAS BORN IN DRC
Flavia Candiru, the head of FAVOUR Prayer Church, Ozoo Pedele …
Read More »ARUA CLERICS ROOT FOR ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION OF HOUSEHOLDS, WARN AGAINST OVER EXCITEMENT IN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2024 Leading clerics in Arua City and district have called upon Christians to work for economic emancipation of their households in the New Year 2025. Bishop Charles Collins Andaku of the Anglican Madi-West Nile diocese and Pastor James Obetia of the Pentecostal FAVOUR …
Read More »ARUA ICU CONSTRUCTION HITS 71 PERCENT
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI ARUA: MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2024 There is a beehive of activity at the construction site for the Arua Hospital Intensive Care unit as wheelbarrow pushers make their way with mixture of concrete up the rums for casting the concrete upstairs as plumbing technicians drill …
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