wetlands
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Environment
Illegal sand mining threatening Kasese rivers
KASESE -As sand mining activities continue to thrive in Kasese district unregulated, the major rivers, the natural flow of rivers like Nyamwamba, Nyamugasana, Mubuku, and Rwembyo, is being affected due to silting…
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Handicraft cooperative members decry high prices of inputs
MASINDI -Handicraft makers in Masindi district have expressed concern over the high prices of materials used to make their products. The handicraft makers under their umbrella platform Masindi Arts and Craft Cooperative…
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Environment
Govt partners with World Bank to restore wetlands
SOROTI– The Ministry of Water and Environment with support from the World Bank has started a two-year project codenamed “Integrated Water Management and Development Project”, aimed at restoring wetlands in Sezibwa River…
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Museveni tags teachers as ‘greedy’, priotises free and compulsory primary education
KAMPALA– President Yoweri Museveni is not happy that teachers in government-aided schools continue to damand salary enahncements and has instead acused them of being “greedy”. Instead, Museveni wants the Members of Parliament…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Central Uganda fishing groups form union
KAMPALA—Fisheries & Aquaculture stakeholders in Central Uganda have set up a cooperative union in a bid to save over US$171 million [ about Shs 615.6bln ] in potential business in aquaculture, fisheries,…
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First community greenhouse launched in Gulu City
GULU– A group of 25 local farmers in Laroo-Pece Division, Gulu City have embarked on greenhouse farming amidst the growing degradation of wetlands in the city. Obiya-Laroo Community PRELNOR Green House project…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Wetlands disappearing three times faster than before due to population growth
SOROTI– Wetlands, amongst the world’s most economically valuable ecosystems and essential regulators of the global climate, are disappearing three times faster than forests, experts have warned. Wetlands include some of the most…
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