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National Water and sewerage Corporation [NWSC] in Gulu has committed to provide stable water supply for the residents of Gulu municipality In an engagement with the stake holder in Gulu, Engineer Silver Mugisha the Managing director National Water and Sewerage Corporation , assured the stakeholders that the corporation is more than ready to ensure that the water challenge in Gulu do not re-appear again like it used to following the water crisis in 2015. He said corporation is also at advance stages to get water from River Nile besides rectifying the pipelines as one way to curb down the challenges. Mr Mugisa also urged the district officials to put     pressure to UMEME electricity Power Company to stabilized Power supply in order for them to get constant power generation for their water since they are tired of running their facility on a generator and it is expensive. Nelson Onono Onweng, chairman Acholi Religious Leaders and Peace Initiative (ARLPI) in his ...

Otuke District in Northern Uganda has recorded decrease in the the rates of high Malaria burden in the district from 43% in 20017 to 15.7% in 2018 following community sensitization on awareness about malaria sickness This report was revealed by Dr Remo Alex the district health officer Otuke District Local Government. Adding that the fight has been successful following the sensitization they have been contacting in the community about sanitation as the local government in conjunction with the Malaria consortium in training the village health team through USAID supports Robert Abak the Resident district Commissioner Otuke district acknowledged the drop and said that has been achieved by uses of the indoor residual spraying and sensitization of the community about Malaria and it is now a history of the past. This Year Otuke give away the Indoor residual spraying to kill mosquitoes to other neighboring district Of Agago and Kole district   because it was excess to them ...

GULU:  A total of 15 former war victims in northern Uganda graduated in different vocational Academic disciplines from Gulu War Affected Training Center GWATC These former abductees By the Lord Resistance Army LRA atrocity in the region confessed that most of them were hopeless before after returning from the bush and hardly the did not know that their future can be brightened again it was until they started hearing about the center in the Radio and immediately opted to o joint despite being desperate and hopeless in lives During the 8th graduation ceremony in the center these 15 survivors were excited upon seeing them also making another tremendous steps in lives with great hope that the decision they take will positively change their lives and thinking tonight the community Piloya Concy 25 years old one of the female among the rest made a revelation that she was abducted at the age of 9 from Pabo village in Amuru District and by then she was in Primary Four ,she managed to...

Gender Base violence has been accredited as the most contributing factors that’s enabling successful early pregnancy among young girls in northern Uganda This is in accordance to the research presentation done buy some of the Gulu University students during the 5 th Gulu university annual research conference recently According to the Report, Over 63% of teenagers dropped out from school due to the high level of gender bases violence in their families arising from several community household Factors Stella Achiro the senior community Development Officer Amuru District Local Government says they experience a lot of cases teenage pregnancy within the district and resulting from Gender base violence in the community which are mostly domestic violence, land related, cases Drug abuse, physical violence, denial responsibility among others and all these forms tends to create inconvenient environment for young girls to live in comfortably   fostering them to rush for early marriage...

Sea nut oil extracted from sea nut tree is on high demand in the entire country of Uganda and other foreign outside countries worldwide because The tree that produces both edible product and smearing oil in term of butter also has been said that it’s the best in producing charcoal pieces for cooking and production of heat energy. However, in northern Uganda and west Nile region perception of the community is geared towards the last destructive product of cutting down this tree and burning them to get only charcoal product and that is contributing to the low productions of sea nut products in these regions. On a recent engagement of the sea nut dealers in Acholi and west Nile region by the German Corporation to deliberates on the challenges facing sea nut production in the region and its solution, the emerging factors were rampant cutting down this tree product, poor processing, branding and networking , Limited scale on consumer packaging among others. In the same line,...

Residents of Lalur Okun village Koch Kalang Parish in Goma Sub County, Nwoya district are facing threats from some rich persons in the area. The residents are saying that these persons always come with government soldiers to threaten their lives in the community ordering them demolish their houses and shift away from the 15, 000 hectres land from Ayego Village to Koch goma Road these two different persons are personally claiming that the land belongs to them yet they have been in the area for decades. Irene Alanyo a resident in the area says the tension is between the two rich persons Abe and Apia where Apia wants to take personal control over land belonging to clan members whereas Abe also wants to chase people because he is rich and want also to take away the land. Agness Obye says   they are at Risk because even when the axing fire woods in their homes for cooking , soldiers has to come and check and it is not easy for cultivate lands for farming. Alfred Kibwota Se...

30 students were passed out with vocational academic discipline in the departments of Tailoring, carpentry and joinery from Terra Renaissance 5 th Graduation ceremony in Gulu. These 30students who were mostly former Lord Resistance Army abductees underwent a full one year practical course in Tailoring, carpentry and joinery Geoffrey Kinyera a parent in the school appealed to the school management to increase the numbers of beneficiaries of their program from 30 to 60 yearly if possible   so that it help in collective fighting of poverty in the community today basing of the practical knowledge they will exhibit when passed out. Christine Angom female parents’ representatives urged the beneficiaries to always love what they do and put God first in their endeavors Vicky Adoch a beneficiary in Tailoring department narrates that she came to the school while also thinking of her children she left at home but she continued and now hope that the skill she learnt will help ...