BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Thursday, November 27, 2025 Digital Gender Based Violence, which the Uganda Police has defined as technology facilitate violence directed towards person on the basis of gender is increasingly becoming a common crime, raising concern among the communities and activist in the Country. As a result, civic …
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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 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 RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 The Arua City Road Committee meeting investigating alleged financial impropriety and mismanagement of funds meant for the works and engineering depart has led to the arrest and detention of the Arua City Engineer, Charles Omwona. The questionable accountability that led the engineer …
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BY FEDERICK DRAMADRI OBONGI: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2024 Vendors in Obongi main market in Obongi town council are demanding a forensic audit into the procurement and construction of a sh50 million waste management facility. The project was awarded by the Office of the Prime Minster to Gulu University Hoima campus …
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FEDERIK DRAMADRI OBONGI: TUESDAY, 24 DECEMBER 2024 Maureen (Not her Real Name), 16, is a pupil of Yenga Primary School in Morobi refugee cluster, Palorinya Subcounty in Obongi district who has been forced to abandon education due to defilement. Maureen says she had a romantic affair with a 19-year-old James …
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Brenda Alezuyo with her 3-month baby and Rukia Lekuru at Kubala trading center on Sunday BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI TEREGO: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2024 When Brenda Alezuyo, a teenage mother went into labour three months ago, she worried about the long distance to Omugo HCIV. More terrifying was …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Thursday, November 14, 2024 Human trafficking used to be a crime heard of from faraway countries, but now it has come closer to home raising alarm among the leaders in the Arua district and Arua City. The leaders who are involved in human rights protection called …
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Abundoned 6 in 1 fish cages floating on River Nile in Obongi districtBy Dramadri Federick ARUA: Friday, October 11, 2024 At Namsaiya cell, Roma ward in Obongi town council, a water logged area is shrouded in thickets as it straddles the shores of River Nile. It is where one of …
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Whether in Uganda or Burundi, gold mining remains predominantly artisanal and rudimentary. Many miners do not care about their health, less about the environment. By Richard Drasimaku and Renovat Ndabashinze November 15, 2023 This story was produced with support from the Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Pulitzer Center From the far …
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