Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudan authorities have accused Ugandan security personnel and immigration officials of allegedly harassing their nationals. The concerns were raised by authorities of South Sudan’s Magwii County in the Eastern Equatorial state during an inter border security meeting held on Monday at the Ngomoromo border …
Read More »South Sudan authorities holding 42 Ugandan farmers
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudanese authorities are holding forty-two Ugandan nationals for allegedly cultivating illegally inside their territory. The suspects, majorly residents of Ngomoromo village in Lokung sub county, Lamwo district are being held at Pugee Military detachment in Ayachi county in the Eastern Equatorial State of South …
Read More »Over 1000 charcoal bags destroyed, six loggers arrested in Lamwo
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 1,000 bags of charcoal were destroyed on Thursday and six suspects arrested in crackdown against illegal loggers that was intensified in Got Kwa parish, Lokung East Sub County in Lamwo district. The operation follows concerns raised by the local population over the indiscriminate cutting …
Read More »Hundreds abandon homes in Lamwo over land row
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of Pobura clan members in Lobalokodi village, in Madi-Opei sub-county in Lamwo District, have abandoned their homes following a land row with their neighbours from Pobira clan. At least seven people from Pobura clan sustained serious injuries after unknown men suspected to be from …
Read More »NRM officials in Lamwo on spot for alleged embezzlement of campaign money
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Sub County National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairpersons in Lamwo district are being investigated over the alleged theft of campaign money. The funds were part of the 230 Million Shillings that was delivered to the district by the NRM secretariat to facilitate …
Read More »Lamwo RDC under investigation over alleged electoral offences
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have opened an investigation against the Lamwo Resident District Commissioner James Nabinson Kidega over alleged electoral offences. The investigation is being headed by the Commissioner of Police, Francis Olugu who is overseeing electoral offences in Acholi sub-region. It stems from a complaint raised by …
Read More »Lamwo residents flee homes in fear of armed South Sudan bandits
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Lomwaka village in Potika sub county in Lamwo district fled their homes on Wednesday after spotting suspected bandits marauding in bushes in the area. The four-armed bandits reportedly entered the border village on Tuesday evening from Logot-Ishore Bomah in Itokos county, Eastern Equatorial …
Read More »Suspected South Sudanese bandits cited in Lamwo villages
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Suspected livestock bandits from South Sudan are reportedly marauding within the borders of Agoro and Madi Opei sub counties in Lamwo district. The Resident District Commissioner James Nabinson Kidega says he has received reports from residents claiming to have spotted unknown armed persons moving …
Read More »South Sudan returns Uganda’s stolen cattle
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudanese authorities have handed back eight head of cattle looted by cattle rustlers from local farmers in the Northern Uganda District of Lamwo. A five-member delegation of security personnel from South Sudan’s Torit state accompanied by political and cultural leaders handed the animals to …
Read More »Flying squad arrests 4 suspected cattle thugs in the Albertine
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF bomb squad from the fifth infantry Division in Acholi Pii in Pader District has donated 13 unexploded ordinances-UXO’s East Acholi. The explosives were detonated in Mudu West village in Nyimur Sub County in Lamwo district, Labongo Amida West and Kitgum …
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