Stories :: Category: Tourism :: Accepted date: May 2019

Updated: 26 May, 15:0515:05

• Buganda, Bunyoro Kingdoms Scramble for Nakayima Cultural Site Top story

  23 May 2019, 16:26 Comments 406 Views Mubende, Uganda East Africa Tourism Updates

  Located on Mubende Hill, Nakayima Cultural Site is the home to the renowned Nakayima Tree, which is said to have supernatural powers for healing, fertility, wealth and good health. The tree, considered an important part of African Spirituality, gets its name from a beautiful spiritual princess Nakayima, who allegedly disappeared in it.

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• Uganda Martyrs' Day Budget Suffers 414 Million Shortfall

  23 May 2019, 13:24 Comments 336 Views Business and finance Religion Tourism Updates

  The Archbishop of Gulu Archdiocese Dr. John Baptist Odama says many of the pledges towards preparations have not been fulfilled. He says the Episcopal conference requires 900 million to successfully host this years celebration.

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• Pictorial: Gulu Foot Pilgrims Trek to Namugongo

  21 May 2019, 07:47 Comments 418 Views Religion Tourism Northern Slideshow

  The pilgrims started the walk with just their Bibles, Rosary and faith in their hearts determined to arrive at the final resting place of the Uganda Martyrs at Namugongo, located about 332 Kilometers away from their homeland.

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• Kasese Pilgrims Start 11-Day Journey to Namugongo

  21 May 2019, 07:37 Comments 282 Views Kasese, Uganda Religion Misc Tourism Report

  The pilgrims who set off from Kasese Catholic Cathedral at exactly 11:00pm on Monday were flagged off with a Eucharistic Celebration led by Fr Joseph Kirungi, the parish priest Kasese Cathedral Parish

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• NWSC Tests Namugongo ‘Holy Water’ Top story

  18 May 2019, 13:33 Comments 605 Views Wakiso, Uganda Religion East Africa Tourism Report

  The Catholic Shrines Rector Rev Fr Vincent Lubega notes that they have found it important to run quality tests to ensure that pilgrims don’t consume contaminated water. He adds test sample have already been taken by a team of experts from National Water and Sewerage Cooperation-NWSC.

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• Gulu Foot Pilgrims to Namugongo Take a Day of Rest

  18 May 2019, 12:00 Comments 175 Views Religion Tourism Northern Updates

  The rest is to facilitate pilgrims who have suffered blisters in their feet recuperate. They have so far covered 112 Kilometers from their starting point in Gulu cathedral, leaving them with 223 Kilometers to Namugongo Martyrs’ Shrine.

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• Gulu Foot Pilgrims Set Off for Namugongo

  15 May 2019, 12:19 Comments 282 Views Religion Tourism Northern Breaking news

  Ahead of the pilgrims is a giant wooden cross flanked by flag bearing portraits of Naumgongo Martyrs Shrine, St. Joseph’s Cathedral and the Sacred Heart University mounted onto a double cabin pick up registration number UAR 206 G branded with Logos of CARITAS. Also in the lead is another pick up vehicle registration number UAN 962T onto which a public address system has been mounted.

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• 44 People Arrested from Murchison Falls National Park

  14 May 2019, 17:58 Comments 209 Views Pakwach, Uganda Crime Tourism Report

  Emmy Ongiertho, the Jonam County Member of Parliament, says much as most residents depend on the park for livelihood, they should also be aware of the laws, which prohibit illegal use of protected or gazetted areas in the country.

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• Kasese Seeks UGX 26bn to Promote Tourism

  14 May 2019, 07:49 Comments 323 Views Kasese, Uganda Business and finance Tourism Western Report

  According to the tourism development strategy under the Agro-Industrial Local Economic Development initiative, Kasese district council wants 11,700,000,000 (eleven billion seven hundred) million Uganda shillings while Kasese municipal council is seeking for 14,500,000,000 (fourteen billion five hundred) million shillings to develop key tourism destination points in the district.

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• Poacher Shot Dead In Queen Elizabeth National Park

  12 May 2019, 11:39 Comments 356 Views Crime Tourism Updates

  Emmy Ngabirano, the Kanungu Deputy Resident District Commissioner confirmed the incident on Saturday saying that after the incident, two of the poachers run away.

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• Church Bans Kaveera from Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine

  11 May 2019, 11:38 Comments 311 Views Kampala, Uganda Religion Environment Tourism Updates

  Bishop Zziwa says the decision has been taken to protect Mother Nature and humanity from the harmful effects of polythene bags. He said food wrapped or packed in Kaveera will not be tolerated at the shrine adding that pilgrims should use paper bags and other biodegradable bags for carrying their belongings to the shrine.

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• African Elephants Face Continued Threat of Poaching -Report

  10 May 2019, 14:20 Comments 165 Views Environment Tourism Updates

  The report shows that African elephant populations have fallen from an estimated 12 million a century ago, to 400,000. It adds that the decline is of concern because even in well-established and protected elephant populations, the annual losses to illegal killing and other mortalities are not being compensated by birth rates.

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• Gov't Orders Apaa Residents to Vacate Disputed Land Top story

  10 May 2019, 12:51 Comments 447 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Tourism Northern Updates

  The position offers financial and material support to all households living in the area stating that they must vacate the area for wildlife conservation.

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• Community Forest Management Solves Uganda's Deforestation Puzzle – NFA

  7 May 2019, 12:51 Comments 186 Views Business and finance Environment Tourism Updates

  The initiative works in such a way that community groups are introduced to alternative sources of livelihoods as incentives for protecting forest resources. Such enterprises include piggery, beekeeping, eco-tourism and Nursery Tree planting amongst others.

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• Kanungu Kidnap, Robbery Suspects Remanded

  6 May 2019, 15:56 Comments 199 Views Court Tourism Updates

  Five of the suspects including Tumwebaze, Mugabo, Kananura, Kyarisiima, and Imaniraguha were charged with the aggravated robbery and kidnap of three fish traders, which occurred on August 03rd 2018 near the Southern Gate Army Barracks in Queen Elizabeth national Park in Kanungu district.

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