Sironko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Sironko district is stranded with 10 cows that were recovered last week. The cows that were reportedly stolen were recovered in Bumasobo sub county in Sironko district following a tip off from a whistle blower. According to police, the cows are suspected …
Read More »Pigs, sheep, and rabbits had highest population growth from 2008 -2018 – UBOS
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farming households in Uganda managed to increase the population of pigs, sheep, and rabbits between 2008 and 2018 at a faster rate than they did for cows and goats, new statistics have shown. The figures, published on Tuesday by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) …
Read More »Cows come home to haunt India’s Modi
Pilani, India | AFP | One of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature policies has been protecting cows, but for Raghuvir Singh Meena — a Hindu farmer struggling to protect his crop of chickpeas from roaming cattle — it has gone too far. Farmers overwhelmingly supported Modi’s nationalist party when …
Read More »Police blamed for escorting cattle that have not been inspected
Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police officers at Mutukula border in Kyotera district have come under fire from local authorities for allegedly aiding the movement of livestock that have not been inspected by health officials. In February this year, the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Ministry lifted the cattle …
Read More »Ugandan army says 29 cattle raiders killed in three months
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda’s army said Monday it had killed 29 armed cattle raiders in the porous northeastern region bordering South Sudan and Kenya, in a military operation which has entered its third month. “There have been isolated cases of contacts and clashes between the UPDF (the Ugandan …
Read More »MUGABE: Let’s build the continent ‘brick by brick, stone by stone’
DotAfrica, Africa’s own Top Level Domain (TLD) officially launched Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AU | A donation of $1million to capacitate the African Union Foundation has been made by Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, during the opening ceremony of the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of …
Read More »VIDEO: Tanzanian soldiers said to have raided Ugandan cows
VIDEO: Suspected armed Tanzanian soldiers are reported to have crossed into Uganda and raided 50 heads of cattle and 40 goats at Kamwema, Endizi sub county in Isingiro district Sources say the group that was under the command of the district security committee of Mishenyi district in Tanzania crossed into Uganda and …
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