Stories :: Type: Breaking news :: Accepted date: August 2019

Updated: 19 Aug, 09:2009:20

• EU, GIZ Launch UGX 28bn Climate Smart Agriculture For Northern Uganda

  15 Aug 2019, 18:51 Comments 219 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Environment Breaking news

  The five-year grant named Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture (ProCSA) will be spent towards building resilience of small holder farmers to adverse effects of Climate Change, enhancing capacity of local governments to integrate issues of Climate Change in their planning process and measurement of the contributions of agriculture in reducing emissions to greenhouse gasses responsible for global warming.

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• Uganda National Dialogue: Gulu Leaders Call for Constitutional Review

  15 Aug 2019, 11:46 Comments 202 Views Gulu, Uganda Politics Northern Elections Analysis Breaking news

  Justine Obol, the Gulu District Democratic Party Secretary argued that although article (1) of the constitution states that power belongs to the people, this isn’t reflected in the country.

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• UIA Holding Illegal Land Title for Karamoja Industrial Park

  13 Aug 2019, 18:09 Comments 211 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Crime Science and technology Breaking news

  The commission declared the land title illegal following investigations into its procurement processes by the Uganda Investment Authority - UIA while buying the land in 2011. The Commission says Uganda Investment Authority illegally dispossessed more than 2,000 people of their customary land when it acquired the land from improper owners.

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• National Oil Company Gets New Boss

  12 Aug 2019, 18:45 Comments 313 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Breaking news

  Nabbanja, 41, has been the chief operating officer upstream at UNOC. According to a profile on UNOC website Nabbanja has 19 years of experience in oil and gas industry.

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• Museveni to Meet Public University Staff Over Salary Enhancement Top story

  12 Aug 2019, 18:14 Comments 446 Views Education Misc Breaking news

  Khalid Mahmoud, the Deputy Spokesperson Gulu University, says have received an invitation to meet the President at State House, Entebbe on Tuesday to discuss their salary matters. Both teaching and non-teaching staffs across public universities laid down their tool early this month to compel government to fulfill the president’s directive to enhance their salaries.

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• LOP Forced to Trek 3 Kilometres in Protest Over Bad Road

  12 Aug 2019, 14:55 Comments 324 Views Human rights Misc Northern Breaking news

  The residents led by Bardege Division LC III Chairperson, Patrick Oola Lumumba tasked Aol, who also doubles as Gulu woman MP to step out of the comfort of her vehicle and walk with them to taste the bad condition of the road, which has lasted for close to six years.

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• Omoro District Leaders Disagree on Relocation of Cancer Treatment Centre

  11 Aug 2019, 13:29 Comments 217 Views Omoro, Uganda Health Misc Northern Breaking news

  Last month, the district council passed a resolution to shift the treatment centre to a 20-acre piece of land in Bobi Sub County. The land situated next to Bobi Health Centre III was formerly the administrative land for Omoro County.

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• Seven Dead, Three Severely Injured In Kitgum Accident

  9 Aug 2019, 12:26 Comments 794 Views Kitgum, Uganda Northern Breaking news

  The traders were returning to Kitgum Municipality from Paidha market in Zombo District when their truck veered off the road and overturned. He said the seven, all died instantly.

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• Gulu Boxing Club Stranded in Kampala Over UGX 300,000

  9 Aug 2019, 12:07 Comments 226 Views Gulu, Uganda Sport Misc Breaking news

  The club was in a seven days long National Championship Boxing Competition organised by Uganda Boxing Federation held in MTN Arena in Lugogo Kampala which ended on Thursday afternoon.

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• Judicial Service Commission PS Arrested for Causing Financial Loss Top story

  8 Aug 2019, 14:52 Comments 413 Views Court Misc Breaking news

  They are accused of abuse of office and causing financial loss of Shillings 33million in the 2014/2015 financial year in their role as accounting officers in the Education and Sports Ministry.

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• Court of Appeal Quashes Arinaitwe's Life Sentence Top story

  8 Aug 2019, 14:38 Comments 503 Views Court Breaking news

  A panel of three Court of Appeal Justices comprising Ezekiel Muhanguzi, Helen Obura and Elizabeth Musoke have set aside the life sentence and instead handed Arinaitwe a 30 year jail term.

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• Gulu Vendor Kills Colleague During Night Party

  8 Aug 2019, 14:33 Comments 233 Views Gulu, Uganda Crime Misc Northern Breaking news

  Richard Watmon, the Paibona Sub County interim chairperson says the two men who were drunk and all vendors.

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• Gulu Teacher Goes Missing

  7 Aug 2019, 13:30 Comments 231 Views Security Misc Breaking news

  Kwinto Abwoye, the head teacher, Pok Ogali Primary School, says Okello hasn’t reported to the school for the last one month and his known cellphone has since been off.

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• One-Year-Old Boy Killed In Suspected Ritual Murder Top story

  6 Aug 2019, 15:19 Comments 435 Views Luweero, Uganda Crime Misc Breaking news

  According to Nakanjako, the minor’s naked body was discovered by her grandson who was sweeping the compound this morning. He immediately alerted her and later the LC 1 Chairman.

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• Electoral Commission Not Independent Enough - Aol

  1 Aug 2019, 13:38 Comments 333 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Parliament Election Breaking news

  Aol says the Electoral Commission is not independent enough to de-commercialize the electoral processes of Uganda. She says failure of the Commission to condemn commercialization of politics is hurting core democratic and good governance principles of elections in the country.

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• Rwanda Closes Border with DRC Over Ebola

  1 Aug 2019, 13:12 Comments 320 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Breaking news

  Olivier Nduhungirehe, the Rwanda State Minister in Charge of East African Community, confirmed that Rwanda had closed its Rubavu border after a third case of Ebola was reported in the border town of Goma, DR Congo.

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