The Open Park Days will feature the savanna parks, including Murchison Falls National Park, Lake Mburo National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve, and Kidepo National Park. Forested parks, like Bwindi and Mgahinga, will not be part of this phase due to specialized activities like gorilla tracking that are not covered under this program.
Veronica Kyakuwaile, a student at the center, expressed renewed hope after acquiring bakery skills, enabling her to support her young son's welfare. Similarly, Madina Nabbanji, a housewife, has seen a significant improvement in her household income through tailoring skills learned at the center.
A detective privy to this matter told URN on condition of anonymity that Opendi revealed that Mbasa was coordinating a racket of street children who use pliers and other sharp objects to pluck number plates from vehicles normally parked along streets for long hours.
The Chairperson Cleophas Opendi, 52, was arrested after some of the victims of the theft disclosed that they were instructed to collect their number plates from Tororo district and all of them received them from the same person. Opendi was arrested alongside his niece, Gertrude Namutosi, 24.
Unlike in 2016 general elections where the WSR was only visible in Kampala, this year, the platform has opened three other regional Physical Situation Rooms to contribute to its agenda. The WSR is now visible in 30 districts across the country that will be hosted in Gulu, Kampala, Mbarara and Soroti.
Gerald Fungo, the chairman of Bumasa Village says that a number of people are still buried in the soggy ground, and can hardly be accessed due to the shortage of personnel and equipment. The tragedy follows a heavy downpour that lasted up to five hours, on Tuesday.
Fr. Guma, who led the first Mass in Lugbara animated by Boda boda riders in Arua town at Christ the King parish on Sunday noted that several Boda boda riders continue losing their lives to thugs who make off with their bikes and money.
Under their umbrella association Busitema University Support Staff Association (Bussa), the staff say that more than 10 hectares of their gardens comprising cassava and potatoes that were ready for harvesting were destroyed.
