Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 195 warriors have been arrested for illegal possession of firearms across Karamoja sub-region since the second forceful disarmament exercise began on July 19th, 2021. The suspects are locked at the 3rd Division UPDF headquarters in Moroto town pending trial in the Court Martial. The …
Read More »Somali national nabbed counterfeiting Ugandan sugar
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have stormed a storage facility at Kosiroi in Moroto district along the Uganda-Kenya border where a businessman has been repackaging Ugandan sugar in paper bags labelled Kenyan sugar. They impounded 250 bags packaged under Kabaras Sugar Factory, a Kenyan based sugar factory. The …
Read More »Moroto residents get food assistance amidst hunger, lockdown
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Moroto municipality are excited after receiving food relief from the government amidst the nationwide lockdown and crop failure caused by prolonged drought. The area Member of Parliament Francis Adome Lorika delivered the food relief to assist food-insecure households in the municipality. The Office …
Read More »Moroto prison break mastermind arrested
Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ring leader in Moroto prison break has been captured. A joint disarmament operation conducted by the UPDF and police captured the wanted convict yesterday in Kotido district. Lokolikau Lochu, a resident of Katap village in Meriria parish, Kotido North division was arrested with an …
Read More »Karimojong Covid-19 patients freely roaming the streets of Moroto, Kotido
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Moroto and Kotido districts are struggling to contain COVID-19 patients who test positive but are out roaming in the streets of the towns. The problem according to experts is caused by the fact that most facilities in the region do not have isolation …
Read More »Suspected poisoning at Kobebe dam worries Karamoja pastoralists
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continuous death of hundreds of fish in Kobebe multi billion dam in Moroto district has thrown many pastoralists in the region in panic. Hundreds of fish which the Ministry of Agriculture in conjunction with National Agriculture Research Organisation -NARO put in the dam to …
Read More »Fear in Moroto as unknown gunmen kill resident
The Moroto District Police Commander Abel Barugahare has linked the killing of Napeyok to the arrest of Moru Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The communities in Moroto continue to live in fear as gunmen continue raiding villages in the town, killing people in what appears to be targeted killings. On …
Read More »Charity Sisters take charge of 13 South Sudanese children rescued from traffickers
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Charity Sisters in Moroto have taken the responsibility of taking care of 13 South Sudanese children that police rescued from child traffickers who they intercepted earlier this week. The children have been living with police, sleeping at police reception until Wednesday when the Catholic …
Read More »Community hands over Moroto’s ‘Most Wanted’ man to security
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Moroto town have arrested and handed to security a man said to be on the ‘wanted’ list, who has allegedly been terrorizing them using an illegal firearm. Residents led by their village leaders managed to apprehend a one Moru in Katanga, a …
Read More »Karimojong surrender only two guns in two months of voluntary disarmament
The army will start another phase of forceful disarmament of Karimojong next month if voluntary disarmament by the locals remains low. Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The 3rd Infantry Division of the Uganda Peoples Defense Force-UPDF in Moroto has received only two guns after asking the locals to freely surrender …
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