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River Semliki washes away over 10 villages as it bursts its banks
NTOROKO – Following heavy rains in Ntoroko district, River Semliki burst its banks washing away 10 villages and displacing over 1000 residents. Residents from the 10 villages of Kayanja, Kyobe, Masaka, Karugaju,…
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Land conflict: Over 600 face eviction in Gulu City
GULU – Over 600 people in Gulu City could be kicked from a contested piece of land following the recent issuance of an eviction order against them. The eviction order relates to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM Secretariat ranks Zombo and Arua as best performing districts in West Nile
ARUA – The Parish Development Model [PDM] Secretariat has ranked Zombo and Arua districts as the best performing districts in implementing the poverty alleviation programme where government intends to move 3.5 million…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Butaleja rice farmers urged to join SACCOs
BUTALEJA – Rice farmers in Butaleja district have been urged to join Savings and Credit Cooperatives Organisations [SACCOs] if they are to improve their household incomes. The manager Doho Farmers’ SACCO in…
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Kikuube: Over 500 evicted from government land
KIKUUBE– Security has evicted over 500 people who were illegally occupying government land in Butoole Parish, Kyangwali sub-county in Kikuube district. The land in question measuring over 3,000 acres of land registered…
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PAC gives district officials second chance to defend themselves
MBARARA – Four districts in Ankole region had their accounting officials sent home by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee [ PAC ] after they failed to present documents related to the money spent…
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Court annuls annexation of Palorinya Sub County to Obongi district
MOYO – The Constitutional Court recently ruled that the contested Palorinya Sub-county doesn’t belong to Obongi district which was carved out of the mother Moyo district. In the petition filed by Palorinya…
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Cooperatives & Communities
WSACCO supports Makindye boda boda riders
KAMPALA – The chairman of Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society [ WSACCO ], Maj Gen. Sam Kavuma has handed three motorcycles worth Shs 13 million to Makindye Professional Boda Boda SACCO.…
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Kapapi land conflict: Landlords to sue minister Nabakooba over resettled evictees
HOIMA– The Seven purported landlords of the land where 1,000 people were evicted in Kapapi and Kiganja sub-counties, Hoima district intend to sue the minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith…
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Hoima: Leaders call for probe into brutal eviction of Kapapi residents
HOIMA– Leaders in Hoima district have condemned the recent brutal eviction of over 1,000 people in Kapapi and Kiganja sub-counties in Kigorobya County, Hoima district, calling it an inhuman act that needs…
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