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 Josephine Osandru Mawua, TEREGO/MADI-OKOLLO: MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 In the wake of unbearable heat waves due to rising temperatures sweeping through East Africa and coupled with scarcity of water, living in a refugee settlement has been a mind-blowing experience in the Rhino Camp Refugee settlement in Terego and Madi …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 In Panyimur, a town council bordering Lake Albert and River Nile in the West Nile district of Pakwach, fluctuations in the water level and reduction in the population of mukene (silverfish) are causing anxiety. This, coupled with limited adaptive capacity to cope …
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BY STEPHEN CANDIA KOBOKO: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2024 For many years, the residents of Lobule sub-county in Koboko district endured torrent life due to dry long spells that adversely affected their agricultural output. Women were especially hardest hit as for various reasons, much of the burden of fending for the family …
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BY DOREEN BAZIO ADJUMANI: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2024 In West Nile, a sub-region of Uganda that is prone to drought and adverse vagaries of weather, the food security situation is worsened by the hosting of a large number of refugees in the country. Many households receive only 30% of food …
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BY TIMOTHY EODU KOTIDO: SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022 The site clearance for construction of a 2km long water dam to support pastoralism has commenced in Maaru sub-county in Kotido district. The dam named “Sinat” is being constructed with funding from the ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. The sh25bn …
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