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Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six suspects who have been collaborating with cattle thieves in Katakwi district have been remanded to Katakwi prison. They were arrested by the joint security forces early this week following an increase in the number of cases of cattle theft in the district. They are Martin …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries-MAAIF has lifted the ban on the sale, consumption, and movement of livestock in Katakwi district. The quarantine was imposed in August 2021 in the sub-counties of Getom, Kapujan, Katakwi, and Okulonyo following the outbreak of Foot and …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Katakwi district lost 649 heads of cattle to suspected Karimojong rustlers last year. A report compiled by Francis Okwameri, the LC V councilor of Ngariam sub county shows his sub-county lost 196 cows, Magoro 173, Palam 142, and Okore 142. The four sub-counties border Karamoja …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Katakwi district councillors want the Resident District Commissioner John Steven Ekoom transferred. The councilors accuse Ekoom of clashing with political leaders and threatening to arrest them without justification. They also accuse him of masterminding the livestock quarantine. President Yoweri Museveni deployed Ekoom …

  Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of residents from three villages in Olilim Parish, Katakwi district have staged a demonstration protesting persistent cattle raids by Karimojong rustlers. The more than 400 residents affected by cattle raids have since pitched camp in the trading center, blocking Soroti- Moroto road via …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five people including a village chairperson are in custody at Katakwi police station on accusations of collaborating with rustlers to raid livestock in Katakwi and neighbouring Karamoja districts. The five were picked up on Wednesday from Ajeluk village, Olela parish, Katakwi sub county, and Ngariam county …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has donated Shillings 60 million towards the construction of St. Stephen Catholic Parish and St. Paul Church of Uganda in Katakwi district. Museveni delivered the money through the Vice President, Retired Major Jessica Alupo Epel. She noted that the president was aware …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six policemen and three suspects have been injured in an accident in Katakwi district. The accident occurred at Alera trading centre along Usuk road after the police pick up patrol car registration no. UP 8355 belonging to Katakwi central police station overturned. The policemen had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Locals in Palam sub county in Katakwi district have faulted the police for not considering residents in the area during the recruitment exercise. John Elakat, the area LCI chairperson of Osemua village says that in 2006 when the community agreed to give land to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 51 Savings and Credit Cooperatives-SACCOs in Katakwi district have each received 30 Million Shillings under the presidential initiative on job and wealth creation commonly known as Emyooga. The zonal manager, Micro Finance Support Center in Soroti, Simon Peter Egiriat says that each SACCO will receive …