Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The acute scarcity and high cost of seedlings are frustrating the anticipated expansion of the oil palm growing project in Kalangala district. With support from the government and International Fund for Agriculture Development-IFAD since the early 2000s, the communities in Kalangala undertook to grow …
Read More »Kalangala women, children find fortune in neglected palm oil tree remains
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women and children in Kalangala district are making fortunes in adding value to some of the neglected residues of the palm oil trees grown in the area. In 2000, the government with support from the International Fund for Agriculture Development-IFAD started mobilizing for the cultivation …
Read More »Kalangala on heightened security alert over terror threats
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heightened security deployment at boarding stations of public transport water vessels that operate between Masaka district and Kalangala Islands on Lake Victoria over terror threats. At least a dozen armed security officers that comprise the police and Uganda People’s Defense Force-UPDF soldiers are deployed …
Read More »Demand for Covid-19 vaccines overwhelms Kalangala medics
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical workers in Kalangala district are overwhelmed by demands for Covid-19 vaccines amid stock-outs. The district Covid-19 taskforce created 14 vaccination centres in the area, but the centres can hardly serve the high number of people that are turning up due to inadequate vaccine …
Read More »Unvaccinated MV Kalangala staff will risk their jobs
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali has advised all staff and operators of public transport services including those of MV Kalangala to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Njuki says service providers such as taxi drivers, conductors, boda boda motorcyclists and crews for …
Read More »HIV/AIDS persists in Kalangala, Mbarara as rest of Uganda registers improvement
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A report by the Uganda Aids Commission shows that Kalangala district and Mbarara city have registered an increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country. The report conducted between 2010 and 2020 with support from UNAIDS shows that the two districts have recorded a higher …
Read More »Fishing committees turn political as NRM battles opposition for control of Kalangala
Fishermen have vowed not to respect these committees since in their present form, they are political in nature Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A fierce contest has erupted across the Kalangala islands as the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party operatives seek to lock opposition supporters out of the fish landing …
Read More »Kyagulanyi’s mechanic narrates torture ordeal in UPDF barracks
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On December 30th, 2020, Bony Obicho, 25, a mechanic who was working on National Unity Platform-NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi damaged campaign cars was among the more than 100 campaigners who landed at Kalangala island where the pop-star-turned-politician had gone to campaign. A father of two children, …
Read More »Man apologizes to residents before committing suicide
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kiwanuka Nicholas aged 33 hanged himself on Monday evening in his single room rental house at Nkose landing site in Mazinga sub county, Kalangala district. Before hanging himself with a rope, the deceased left a written letter indicating his relatives phone numbers. “I have gone …
Read More »Man sentenced to 42 years over defilement of 3 little girls
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bugembe George aged 24 has been sentenced to 42 years in prison after pleading guilty of defiling three little girls. Bugembe, a resident of Kasisa landing site in Bujumba sub county Kalangala district was charged with defiling two 7 year and one 6 year old …
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