Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Busoga East on Thursday confirmed the death of 31-year-old, Idi Muyimba, a resident of Nsango village, in Bukatuube sub county, in Mayuge district, who suffocated in a pit latrine. Residents say that Muyimba’s phone slipped through the latrine pit and he resolved to manually …
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Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Ochieng, 16, a primary seven pupil at Industrial View Primary school in Tororo municipality has died after falling into a pit latrine at home. Ochieng, a resident of Bison B village in Western division died on Wednesday morning at a health facility where he was …
Read More »Bukedea school shifts office to pit latrines
Bukedea, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The administration of Acomai Primary School in Kamutur sub county in Bukedea district, currently operates in a pit latrine after rainwater washed away the existing structures in the school. Founded by the community in 2008, the government took over the school in 2012 after Bukedea …
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