BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU OBONGI: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025 The residents of Obongi district in North western Uganda have marked with night-long celebration, the nomination of Kaps Hassan Fungaroo, the former Member of Parliament and the Vice president of the Forum for Democratic Change as he plots a comeback to legislative …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025 President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja to begin engaging the local community around Lake Albert and river Nile in order to protect the fishing areas from depletion. This follows reports that unscrupulous fishers suspected to be coming from …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025 When Tom Erejo, a resident of Okokoro town council in Maracha district finished senior four, his hopes of going further with education evaporated due to lack of school fees. Erejo said he worried that he would join the plethora of young people …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU TEREGO: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025 When he employed the conversational question and answer campaign stamina in Terego in 2016, President Yoweri Museveni received the majority votes in the ultimate elections. That time the president backed up the Q and A with promise of delivering hand hoes to …
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By Josephine Osandru Mawua Madi Okollo, Uganda September 18, 2025 RHINO CAMP REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Madi Okollo District. Under the relentless sun that pushes daytime temperatures past 40°C, the land in Rhino Camp settlement in Northern Uganda is cracked and parched. For the tens of thousands of refugees who fled conflict …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU BWINDI: Sunday, September 28, 2025 In 2021 Fidelis Kanyamunyu and his colleague David Gonahase, both conservationists in Western Uganda, began the “My Gorilla Family App.” This was at the height of the Covid19 pandemic lockdown when lack of movement of tourists had wiped out conservation revenues. The …
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By Ezadri Michael Onyafia TEREGO: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 In the West Nile district of Terego where Tobacco growing as the main cash crop has dominated since the colonial times, environmental challenges abound. Deforestation arising from massive use of wood fuel for tobacco curing and opening of virgin lands for …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MARACHA: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 In the rural plains of Maracha district where mairungi and tobacco once ruled the gardens, a green revolution is quietly unfolding, hinged on cocoa as a surprise game-changing cash crop. One-by-one, households are digging themselves out of abject poverty. This is after …
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RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 The Arua East-West Bee Products enterprises has scoped a coveted best exhibitor’s award during the 14th annual honey week. Vicky Eyokia, the proprietor of the enterprise noted that the national recognition is positive gesture from top bras in the honey industry and confidence …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025 The Equity Bank has identified structural barriers as a major hindrance to the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises in Uganda’s West Nile Sub-region. To eliminate those barriers and unlock the potential of the SME’s the bank is emphasizing record keeping and …
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