Tag Archives: Kitgum

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district council sectoral committee on production has drafted an ordinance to regulate the production, transportation and marketing of charcoal. The draft is in line with the resolution of the Joint Acholi Sub-Region Leader’s Forum-JASLF, which drafted the Acholi Sustainable Charcoal Production and Marketing Bill …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have declined to grant the National Unity Platform-NUP party presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi permission to campaign in Kitgum Municipality. Kyagulanyi’s agents had booked Christ the King playgrounds for their campaigns and informed security as required. He was scheduled to campaign in Kitgum Municipality …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district has halted the Emyooga program in the sub-counties of Orom, Namokora, Omiya Anyima and Mucwini all in Chua East constituency. Early this week, the office of the Resident District Commissioner and the District Commercial officer commenced the process of electing executives for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district local government has allocated 325 Million Shillings for provision of clean water in the nine sub-counties. The money from the sector development grant is expected to be used for sinking and constructing ten new deep boreholes and rehabilitation of ten other broken …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district has received 15,352 face masks from the Ministry of Health for candidates and finalists in primary, secondary schools and tertiary institutions. The face masks were delivered in fulfillment of a pledge made by the Ministry of Education to aid learners as classes …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A landlord in Kitgum municipality has returned the money paid by the National Unity Platform-NUP to establish an office on his premises citing intimidation from security. NUP reportedly paid Shillings 400,000 in August as two month’s rent to Bosco Oloya Oboni, a businessman in …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district taskforce has closed down all coronavirus quarantine centers over lack of funds. The quarantine centers are Pandwong health center III and St Joseph’s Hospital all in Kitgum municipality which hasve been closed for the past two weeks and one month respectively. They were …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum municipal council has received back 8.1 billion shillings for the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development programme [USMID] fund that it had returned to the treasury in June this year. The money is part of 11.5 billion shillings World Bank funded USMID cash the …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vegetable farmers in Manwoko village in Labongo Amida sub county in Kitgum district are counting losses due to persistent floods, pests and disease outbreaks. At least 90 farmers drawn from 15 different groups are involved in vegetable growing using Akworo small scale irrigation scheme …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district COVID-19 taskforce committee is seeking to regulate the movement of all prison officials in the community over increasing cases of COVID-19 in prison facilities. This follows test results released by the Health Ministry on Wednesday indicating a total of 76 inmates at …