By Josephine Osandru Mawua Madi Okollo, Uganda September 18, 2025 RHINO CAMP REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Madi Okollo District. Under the relentless sun that pushes daytime temperatures past 40°C, the land in Rhino Camp settlement in Northern Uganda is cracked and parched. For the tens of thousands of refugees who fled conflict …
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BY WILFRED LAMONY JWEE NWOYA: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Juliet Layet, 28, is an enterprising farmer in Otingo Cung in Mulago cell Geyi ward in Koch Goma Town Council, Nwoya district. Layet, a member of Obol Farmers’ Group that has 57 members explains that she had used traditional hand hoes …
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BY Robert Mone LAMWO: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Dorcus Anyiri, is a single mother at block 12, Zone 5B, a refugee settlement in Lamwo district who fled from unrest in South Sudan in 2017. Since her arrival, Anyiri has engaged in nursery bed management and tree planting to enhance her family’s livelihood, turning …
Read More »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 …
Read More »KOBOKO WOMEN TAKE ON ECO-FARMING TO RESTORE DEGRADED FARMLANDS
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 …
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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, …
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