BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 In the neighborhood of Uganda Peoples defence forces Bondo barracks in Arua district, is a church established by the unique plan and choice of God. It is the fourth church under the FAVOUR Prayer Church ministries and is serving not only the …
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REFUGEE WOMEN ACHIEVE BETTER LIVELIHOODS, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
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 Janeth Fridah KOBOKO: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 In an effort to save the environment from degradation, women in lobule Sub County in Koboko district have embarked on tree planting. Shifa Salama, a member of the host community in Lobule, said that they formed an association of over 84 women …
Read More »KIRYANDONGO WOMEN EXCEL IN CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
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 STEPHEN CANDIA ARUA: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 There is a sense of wonder that has gripped the friends and neighbors of Charity Kayomirwoth, 31 and her colleagues Margaret Atimango and Gladys Piyic after they successfully turned a bushy and grove inhabited area along the banks of River Enyau in …
Read More »PANYIMUR BUSINESS GROUP SHIFT FROM FISH TO GOAT RARING TO OVERCOME LIVELIHOOD DISRUPTIONS DUE TO BAD WEATHER
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 …
Read More »WEST ACHOLI FARMERS USE CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE TO EARN BIG
One of the freshly weeded gardens in Solome Abalo’s farm …
Read More »Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile
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, …
Read More »LIRA WOMEN FARMERS TURN TO SOLAR IRRIGATION FARMING TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
BY JOSEPH OKUL LIRA: Thursday, February 6, 2025 As an experienced farmer for over two decades, Judith Ayo, a resident of Alepo village, Ayamo parish, Bar sub county expressed high hopes that her recent adoption of solar powered irrigation will gradually lead to increasing her annual incomes. Ayo grows cabbage …
Read More »COVID-19 RESPONSE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNDING CHANGING THE HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE IN WEST NILE
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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