Tag Archives: Lango

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Human Rights Commission – UHRC has noted with concern the appalling conditions of children imprisoned alongside their mothers in prison facilities across districts in Acholi and Lango sub regions. The Commission cites awful conditions that the children are enduring including congestion in the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Farmers in Lango sub-region have taken advantage of the early rains to plant crops. Previously planting season would begin with first rain in late January and continues until October when the rain would reduce before ushering dry season. But in the recent years, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 former Lord’s Resistance Army -LRA abductees in Lango sub-region are demanding for compensation from the government. The group under their umbrella, Lango Former LRA Captives and Returnees Association notes that most of them are in dire need for help, yet government …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Most of the funds initially meant to compensate Acholi and Lango War Debt Claimants and victims of different insurgencies have been diverted to facilitate critical national infrastructure developments, according to President Yoweri Museveni. The president said the government has now prioritized infrastructure developments like roads, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, has counseled leaders and residents in Lira to let the law take its course as they unite after clashes with a section of the Asian community. The clashes were triggered by the death of a one, Dickens Okello, a pupil …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Foreign investors should be stopped from operating retail businesses. The call was made by Lango Parliamentary Group, a loose coalition of legislators from Lango sub region following a public meeting held at Uganda Technical College in Lira town on Monday. The MPs say that the …

Baralegi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has  commissioned Baralegi Presidential Demonstration Farm, in Baralegi, Okwang Sub-County in Otuke District in Lango Sub-Region. The farm is the third of its kind in the country, after Kawumu Farm in Luweero District and Kityerera in Busoga Sub-Region. President Museveni said …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health Minister, Dr. Jane Aceng has directed the eight districts in Lango region to immediately pass laws banning the sale of sachet waragi. The district are Dokolo, Oyam, Apac, Lira, Kole, Alebtong, Amolatar and Otuke. In September 2-17, government banned the sale of sachet …

THIS WEEK: Museveni promises to tackle crime in Lango sub-region Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has assured the people of Lango Sub-Region in Northern Uganda that pockets of insecurity in the area will be dealt with government. He said that since the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government …