Tag Archives: Beatrice Anywar

Kalungu, Uganda| AFP |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Water and Environment has renewed demands to have special courts established to handle environmental cases. Due to the grave effects of environmental degradation caused by encroachments  on wetlands, cultivating along critical shorelines and river banks, and invasion on gazetted forest reserves, …

Lwera, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Vigorous monitoring and routine checks by the National Environment Management Authority- NEMA has forced some companies to abandon sand mining in Lwera swamp along the Kampala-Masaka highway. Dr Jerome Sebadduka Lugumira, the Natural Resources Manager in Charge of Soils and Land in NEMA, says that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Environment Management Authority- NEMA has halted the issuance of all permits in wetlands across the country. The NEMA Executive Director Dr. Tom Okurut notes that the decision is part of the temporary interventions to reduce the ever-rising cases of misuse and encroachment …

Kitgum, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The newly appointed State Minister for Environment Beatrice Anywar says that her new appointment was based on merit.   Anywar says the appointment is directly related to her past activism on environment conservation and notes that she is excited to prove to the appointing authority that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has been tasked to fulfill pledges he made towards supporting the construction of St Janani Luwum Church in Kitgum municipality a year ago. Construction works on the church estimated to cost 3.5 billion shillings and named in memory of the slain former Church …