By Ruth Atim. Tino Patience took on baking as a source of income to make ends meet during the tough COVID-19 times. Tino, who is not only a baker but also a kindergarten teacher acknowledges that the lock down took…
‘Businesses that flourished during the pandemic’ By Asmahan Mohammed. The dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya close to 2 years ago had ripple effects to the lives of Kenyans especially the middle income and working class urban dwellers as…
‘Refugee man dies in a Domestic Conflict’ By Alex Pithua EDITED By Gloria Laker Aciro-ADIIKI @GloriaLKaker +256788368386 PALABEK Cases of domestic violence continue to rise across Uganda. Poverty, land wrangles and adultery are some of the major reasons Ugandan police…
As Alex Pithua EDITED By Gloria Laker Aciro-ADIIKI @GloriaLKaker +256788368386 ARUA “This is a new and under reported approach to woe communities into tree planting. Development partners in the West Nile region have embarked on engaging the community themselves in…
By Sabir Musa Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) including media remain unregistered, a key prerequisite for running business in the country, an issue they relate to limited resources and unclear guidelines on registration. The Uganda Small Scale Industries Association…
By Gloria Laker. A and Aggrey Ojok As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to threaten the livelihoods of families, meeting the menstrual hygiene needs of most girls have been relegated to the back-burner as households are confronted with the task of…
By Moise Mbulula Kakule KAMPALA. Uganda announced a second5 total Lock down on June 18, 2021 to prevent further spread of the coronavirus disease as the country battled a second wave of the highly contagious disease. Learning institutions had earlier…
By Alex Pithua To mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on refugees and host communities in Uganda, the government of Japan last month donated USD 9.8 million, about Shs36 billion. “Japan recognizes that the humanitarian situation in refugee-hosting areas is…
By Sabir Musa, contributing editor Naseeba Bagalaaliwo Since 2003, Madi-Okollo has been a refugee hosting district, located in the West Nile region. UNHCR estimates that 6,923 refugees have been resettled in the district with women and children making up the…
By Dramadri Federick, Contbiuting Editor, Naseeba Bagalaaliwo West Nile Region. Refugees surprised the community of Koboko district with the generous donation of a church. The South Sudanese refugee Dinga community presented the church worth an estimated 500,000,000 Ugandan shillings to…
