BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025 The initiative is aimed at helping the masters of ceremonies and media panelists to create business venture to supplement their earnings. “Our biggest nightmare has been the exorbitant interest rates on loans, especially from money lenders. One time I borrowed sh500,000 and …
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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 ARUA: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 The West Nile Development Association, an umbrella body bringing under a single platform the district local governments in the West Nile sub-region, is banking on a newly forged friendship with the European Union to accelerate the region’s development. Officials who recently visited …
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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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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 Tanga!, tanga!, Tanga!…, the ululation rang out as the youths reacted to the announcement of Collins Tanga as the winner of the National Youth Chairperson in Arua City. It was the notable moment bringing to an end the delegates elections for the …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 Ninety years ago, immigrants from Bunyoro sub-region in Western Uganda who had settled in Arua Township after coming to look for employment and trade opportunities under the British colonial government began a church within the township. This was a location previously known …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 The stage is finely primed for an exhilarating contest in Ayivu Division mayoral race following the nomination of two candidates, the incumbent Marlon Avutia and his challenger, the gospel singer Jimmy Candia a.k.a TIG. Both candidates shied with relief after an exhausting …
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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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