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Two Congolese refugees have been confirmed dead after the Monday Kibaale bus accident which left 20 refugees hospitalized.

National Forestry Authority-NFA is considering extending the deadline for the eviction of forest reserve encroachers in Kibaale district to January next year after failing to push them out today. In May this year, NFA and Kibaale district officials set Monday August 26th as deadline for over 15000 encroachers on all 15 central forest reserve to vacate.

Police in Kibaale district are holding a 35 year old man for defiling an 11-year-old girl. The suspect Alex Tweyambe was caught red handed defiling the minor on Wednesday afternoon.

Six mourners are nursing injuries they sustained in a motor accident along Mubende-Hoima Road in Bwanswa Sub County, Kibaale district on Tuesday afternoon.

At least five houses have been de-roofed and several crop gardens destroyed by a rainstorm in Kasambya sub county, Kibaale district. The storm on Sunday afternoon also left several animals killed. The worst hit villages are Bunwagi, Kihumuro, Buhungiro, Kirendere, Kyebando and Nyamigongo.

Farmers and cattle dealers in Kibaale are defying a six-month quarantine imposed following the outbreak of Bovine Pneumonia in the district. In June this year, the Ministry of Agriculture imposed quarantine banning transportation and sale of cattle and all related products. This followed the outbreak of the highly contagious Bovine Pneumonia in the sub counties of Mpeefu, Ndaiga and Kyaterekera.

Last month, Tumwesigye logged a civil suit at Hoima Magistrate’s court accusing the vendors of trespassing on his land.

There was confusion in Kibaale on Friday after two important district events were organized on the same day. On the day the district was set to read the 2013/2014 budget, most leaders shunned the belated International Women’s Day event organized on the same day.

Residents have made several pleas to government to repair the bridge in vain.

A post mortem report issued by Kakindo health center IV shows that the deceased succumbed to excessive internal bleeding that resulted into shock.

Police in Kibaale has arrested seven people, including two pastors, over the disappearance of a five months old child during church prayers. The pastors head Revival Deliverance Centre Church.

A 19 year-old teenager in Kibaale district has been arrested for abducting a 13 year-old girl. He intended to marry off the minor.

A conflict between two men over the affection of a woman is threatening to suck-in a whole village into a cycle of violence.

Sekyiwere Nyombi, a produce dealer from Mubende district says that much as they are incurring heavy losses because of the bad road, Kibaale district local government continues collecting taxes from them.

Ten suspected Rwanda nationals in Kibaale district have been charged and remanded over illegal settlement in a national forest reserve and encroachment on the forest reserve.

It was prompted by the alarming rate of encroachment on the forest reserves by residents and Rwandan immigrants.

National Forestry Authority (NFA) officials and Kibaale district authorities have arrested ten Rwandan nationals for encroachment on a forest reserve.

The road was only cleared after taxi operators and passengers joined to push off the trucks, long after the line of stuck vehicles to and from Hoima had grown huge.

A heavy hailstorm has destroyed 20 houses in Bwikara Sub County, Kibaale district.

Residents of Pachwa sub county, Kibaale district have joined a search for a missing two-year old toddler who was taken from his home last night.