BY OUR REPORTER KABAROLE: SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022 It was a celebration of culture, love, companionship and family life all blended together as Uganda’s Ambassador to South Sudan, Gen Ronald Balya, hosted friends and family to the traditional marriage of his daughter, Pamela Asta Balya, to Seth Kabuuchu. The Vice …

KIGALI: MONDAY, 25 JULY 2022 BirdLife International has called for increased push for the safeguarding of protected and conserved areas at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) in Kigali, Rwanda. “This inaugural APAC is an opportunity for stakeholders to link up and work …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022 The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has launched a fundraising campaign aimed at mobilizing resources for conservation of Silver-back Gorillas. UWA- Bwindi, in partnership with  “GORILLAS  our friends FOREVER” Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-Evan), and local …

BY CHRIS FRANK HOIMA: MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022 President Yoweri Museveni has tasked religious leaders to mobilize their parishioners to embrace the Parish Developmental Model Program that is currently being rolled out in the country. The call was part of his message during the groundbreaking ceremony and fundraising drive for …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A rough, dusty road from Yumbe town in West Nile sub-region of Uganda passes through Mount Kei national forest reserve (formally known as Mount …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Aruguto rubi, rwomucuncu Kuruga omu Town eya Yumbe omukyanga ekya westnile omu Uganda niruraba  aha mushozi gwirindiro ryebibira ogwa Kei (ogwabire nigumanwa nka  Mount Kei White Rhino Sanctuary). …

BY CHRIS JAMES WOO OYAM: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 Oyam district in northern Uganda is eyeing a 40% increment in vegetable production through promotion of smallholder irrigation farming. However the district is placing its faith in the German Development Agency, GIZ to help it realize that vision. Last week it …

BY GLADYS KASLINE LAKAREBER KITGUM: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022 Kitgum district health department has received 51,602 vaccines for the third round of covid-19 mass vaccination campaign which is to kick off on June 21, 2022. But unlike the previous campaigns, the focus this time is on children age 12 to …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2022 Over the weekend, Girls Must Uganda, a local civil society organization, summoned over 20 young women activists, feminists, rights defenders, councilors, probation officers and journalists in Kabale and Rukiga districts for a lesson on digital safety. Maurine Tukahirwa, the chief Executive Officer …

BY OKELLO JESUS OJARA GULU: WEDNESDAY,Jun 15, 2022 When Knight Akwero, a resident of Patwol ward in Anaka town council, Nwoya district conceived her first baby in 2006, she hoped to deliver at a health facility under the care of a trained midwife. When labor pains hit her during the …