Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile By Matata Benzamin Arua: Monday, February 16, 2025 In the heart of Arua City, a woman’s passion for farming has turned into a thriving business empire. Caroline Lilly Ocanda, a 56, …
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BY JOSEPH OKUL LIRA: Thursday, February 6, 2025 As a beneficiary of a solar irrigation project, Judith Ayo, a peasant farmer for over two decades, a resident of Alepo village, Ayamo parish, Bar sub county expressed high hopes that her annual incomes will gradually increase. The mother of eight grows …
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A section of the emergence call and dispatch center in Arua BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK Monday, January 20, 2025 When the Ministry of Health of Uganda took a bold step to stop importation of Covid-19 …
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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 RICHARD DRASIMAKU ITURI: THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2025 The year 2020 began like a normal year for Flavia Candiru, a resident of Ozoo Pedele in Aru territory in Ituri province, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A sudden severe illness shrouded in mysterious origin changed the whole story and with it …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2024 Leading clerics in Arua City and district have called upon Christians to work for economic emancipation of their households in the New Year 2025. Bishop Charles Collins Andaku of the Anglican Madi-West Nile diocese and Pastor James Obetia of the Pentecostal FAVOUR …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI ARUA: MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2024 There is a beehive of activity at the construction site for the Arua Hospital Intensive Care unit as wheelbarrow pushers make their way with mixture of concrete up the rums for casting the concrete upstairs as plumbing technicians drill …
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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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The Barakala health center complex is edging towards completion BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI YUMBE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2024 The construction works should have ended by June 2024 but Barakala Health center’s Outpatients department and office block complex is still unfinished. Siraj Baguma, the health center in-charge says that …
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