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Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU on Sunday destroyed 1,132 illegal fishing nets along Bwondha landing site in Mayuge district. The illegal nets comprised 1,044 beach seines and 88 monofilament nets which they say have been depleting the lake of all its fish species. Half of the …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fishermen in Mayuge and Jinja have expressed satisfaction with government’s decision to redeploy soldiers attached to the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU whom they say will help to create sanity on the lake. FPU operations were temporarily suspended in November, 2020 after several fishermen accused soldiers of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Mayuge district on Sunday recovered some body parts of a 16-year-old who was killed by a crocodile on Thursday. Shafiq Watangwa, a primary six pupil at Musubi primary school in Musubi village, Bukatube sub county, Mayuge district had gone swimming with his …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Teenage mothers in Mayuge district have shunned away birth control methods over myths attached to family planning services. Speaking to URN during one of  Marie Stopes reproductive health outreaches activities at Bukatube health center III on Thursday, several teenage mothers said that most women …

Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents on the major landing sites in Mayuge district want security tightened along Lake Victoria to reduce on the number of foreign travelers from the neighbouring countries. As part of the guidelines to contain the spread of COVID-19, President Museveni closed down Uganda’s borders …