In September 2021, Ssalamu Godfrey Ngobi, the Assistant Registrar of Lira High Court issued a temporary injunction restraining Ibuje sub-county and Matrix Lands from carrying out any activities at Ibuje rock.
Beatrice Atim, another local distiller, says that the ban may force her into prostitution because she does not have any other business to run. Joel Okello a resident of Atego village says that although most people are not managing the waste very well, there are those who have managed the waste so well that you can’t even smell it.
The neglected tropical disease is spread by infected mosquitoes whose bites deposit a parasite that travels to the lymph nodes. It affects the lymphatic system causing swelling and pain in the legs, arms and genitalia. It also increases the risk of frequent bacterial infections that harden and thicken the skin.
According to the proposal, the city council will relinquish the responsibility for garbage handling to the private firms whose services will have to be directly paid for by the residents that wish to have their waste materials collected.
Residents in the city argue that failure to collect garbage and poor disposal has become a threat to their health and the environment and could expose them to hygiene-related diseases such as Diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera.
Amanda Ngabirano, the National Physical Planning Board chairperson, said the country is disorganized because national physical planning has not been valued. A fine of 2million shillings shall be levied on those who shall not paint their business premises and lack dustbins
The panic started after reports that swarms of desert locusts had been sighted in Abim district on Monday evening. The district located in Karamoja sub-region borders Kapelebyong and Amuria in Teso and Otuke and Agago in Lango Sub Region.
The three groups are Nyeko- rac community Farmers’ Cooperative Society, Itek- okile Rice Growers and Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd and Bar Orphan Widows and Widowers- (BOWW) Cooperative Society.
In Lango sub region, cashew nuts is the latest addition after citrus fruits, mangoes, soy beans, pineapples and coffee introduced by the same agency and Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) few years ago.
The district council approved the proposal to allocate about 200 acres of land, part of Aler Community farm in Ngetta Sub County to Xsabo Group to establish a pilot Solar power plant.
Alli Batit, the Uganda Wildlife Authority - UWA Warden Murchison Falls Game Park told URN on Tuesday that they are engaging a group of fishermen to help in the search of the victims.
Museveni also notes that some UWA officials are collaborating with Li Wejin and Yinzhi, both Chinese diplomats to export ivory from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan. He also expresses displeasure over the reported theft of 1,300Kgs of impounded Ivory worth Shillings 3 billion from the UWA stores.
Lira District Secretary for Production Anthony Ojuka says the supplies will be distributed to extremely vulnerable families comprising of widows, Persons Living with HIV and the elderly, among others.
Patrick Ogweng the Deputy Town Clerk Lira Municipality has defended their forceful eviction arguing that the struggle by Lira Municipal council to evict the IDPs and dissolve this camp started 2007, a year after government dissolved all the IDP camps in Northern Uganda.
Marianna Garofalo, UNICEFs Child Protection Specialist, says up to 83 villages in the three districts of Karamoja region alone have abandoned FGM completely.
The operations were conducted in Ayago Parish - Railway division, Ober parish-Adekokwok Sub County, Bar Sub County in Erute South and Onekmunu swamp along the Lira-Kampala highway.
The project will involve upgrading the network system, extending water to more villages, improving the infrastructure like pipelines, reservoirs, booster pumps and establishing motorized pump schemes in areas where piped water cannot reach.
Julius Peter Okello, a retired head teacher who has acquired the system says much as it is expensive to acquire the biogas system, its worth because it has more benefits.
