BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: THURSDAY MAY 22, 2025 The Arua Regional Blood Bank will coordinate blood collection, processing and distribution in West Nile and reduce blood shortages, Dr Diana Steiner, the permanent secretary of the ministry of health has said. The Laboratory is a vital healthcare institution dedicated to …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU & MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK ARUA: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Engineers and Manson men at the construction site of the Intensive Care Unit at the Arua hospital are racing to against time to hit a one crucial target. Finishing and handing over of the facility for public use. This …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025 The preparations for the June 3rd Uganda Martyrs’ Day commemoration are proceeding smoothly with the organizers expecting to achieve set targets for a colorful event. Rt Rev Charles Collins Andaku, the bishop of Madi-West Nile Diocese said in a media briefing about …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU Arua: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Richard Kamugisha Baabo, the acting secretary of the electoral commission (EC) said some years back, the commission asked districts to avail land for construction of their field offices. Arua district was one of the few districts that offered land for this purpose …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU NEBBI: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025 Tucked away in the gorgeous serenity of the Western Rift Valley in Goli, a border sub county in Uganda’s Nebbi district is Biku prayer mountain, a magnificent symbol of faith. This fascinating landscape of impressive outlay is variously remembered for hosting the …
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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 Jacklyne Mbonabyenja Kiryandongo: Tuesday February 25, 2025 In the vicinity of homesteads in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, clean well set vegetable gardens blossom. Majority of the backyard farms are operated by women who also practice mixed farming, intercropping, mulching, growing high breed crops, using organic fertilizers and carrying out irrigation …
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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 RICHARD DRASIMAKU Saturday, January 18, 2025 Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, the rigidity of northern Uganda farmers on traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing and low penetration by private soil testing actors …
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BY ANDREW COHEN AMVESI ARUA: OCTOBER 30, 2024 Plastic waste, especially the poor disposal of bottles of mineral water, soft drinks and liquor, is one of the commonest forms of environmental pollution in Arua city. However, the business of making money from collecting plastics for sale is often regarded as …
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