BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 08, 2023 The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has approved eight product lines of the Nile Natural Fruit products, allowing the Arua juice factory to use the Uganda standards certification mark (Q-mark) on its labels. The Private Sector Foundation Uganda paid sh5m to …
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BY SUN PR OFFICE – Soroti Soroti University has been selected to be a Nuclear Reactors Research Centre. Out of the 9 Government of Uganda Public Universities visited, Soroti University emerged as the most suitable to host the training centre in the country. This was revealed during a meeting between …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 Uganda is one of the five countries with the highest level of treatment coverage for tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organisation has confirmed in its latest report. It joins China, Bangaladesh, Brazil and Zambia in that small league of countries to have …
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BY ACHORA GEOFREY PAKWACH: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022 In the rural communities of Pakwach district, adoption of solar power is slowly taking root, supplementing wood fuel and charcoal, the primary sources of household energy. Residents say this is because many private players in the solar energy sector are promoting the …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 The ministry of health has introduced additional doses of vaccines for infants to be included in the routine immunization programs. The Permanent Secretary, Dr Diana Atwine, said starting this October the additional doses will include Hepatitis B dose at birth and injectable …
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BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …
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BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 The ministry of health has set aside $26million (about sh93b) to start indoor residual spraying in the west Nile sub-region this month. According to records from the Ministry of Health, West Nile has a high malaria transmission with 80% of people with fever …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 The principal judge, Dr Flavian Zeija, has said that the judiciary will strengthen innovations that it has introduced in order to improve access to justice by the litigants. He listed operationalization of more courts to reduce the distance for the people to …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, September 10, 2022 While attending a tailoring workshop in Luwero district in 2020, Faridah Namukwayo, 22, developed a little cough. For three weeks, Namukwayo took this as a usual cough that occasionally attacked her after a common cold or flu. However, everything changed when she …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A rough, dusty road from Yumbe town in West Nile sub-region of Uganda passes through Mount Kei national forest reserve (formally known as Mount …
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