Tag Archives: Kwania

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An elderly woman in Kwania district has torched five grass thatched huts before setting herself on fire protesting a land dispute with her son. The deceased has been identified as Rose Adong, a resident of Awiritojo village in Banya parish in Inomo sub county. …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 400 farmers from six sub-counties in Kwania district have received heifers worth 576 million shillings under the restocking program. In 2014, the government earmarked 20 billion shillings to restore livelihoods and alleviate poverty in West Nile, Acholi, Lango and the Teso-sub regions …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 872 farmers in Kwania district have received farm inputs from Clean Energy Partnership for Africa, CEPA with funding from Kingdom Rice Uganda in collaboration with Equity Bank to promote rice growing. The farm inputs comprising 2,500kgs of Nase-1 improved upland rice seeds with …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients at Aduku health center IV in Kwania district have no choice but share a general ward with dead bodies due to lack of a mortuary. Aduku health center IV, a Kwania health sub district hospital that serves Kwania and patients from the neighboring Kole, …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 170 farmers in Kwania district have signed a Memorandum of Understanding- MoU with Special Anointing Oil Company, (SAO-Uganda) a nongovernmental organization implementing the growing of rosemary in Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda. The rosemary plant is a luxuriant garden herb with needle-like leaves …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district has received 1.7 billion Shillings from the World Bank for the refurbishment and upgrade of two health center II’s to HCIII’s, under the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Program for Results- IFTPR. The beneficiary health centres include Akali HCII in the newly created Akali sub-county …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district council has approved a supplementary budget of 192 million Shillings for the Agricultural Cluster Development Project- ACDP. The five-year project was initiated in 2018, to improve on-farm productivity, production and volumes of selected agricultural commodities in specific geographical clusters of the country. …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 residents of Nambieso and Chawente sub county in Kwania district who were displaced by floods are starving. The residents who live along the shores of Lake Kwania have remained homeless and their gardens of crops submerged after the Lake burst its …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1,012 people living with HIV in Kwania district have abandoned treatment. According to records from the district health department, there are more than 70,000 people on Anti- Retroviral Treatment. Failure to access treatment has been attributed to lack of transport to the health facilities and …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district has received 100 bicycles to facilitate different health activities in the district especially. The development comes at a time when there is a lockdown in the country as a measure to try and reduce on the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The …