Agencies. The continuous influx of refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan into Kenya is piling pressure on the already overstretched Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Garissa and Turkana, respectively. Prime Cabinet Secretary (CS) and CS for Foreign Affairs Musalia Mudavadi told Senate…
By Stanley Ebele Fredrick Alaba is stranded in Kotido after he was rejected by the family that he has been searching for, for years. The 27- year- old from Hoima City found himself in a mix after his desperate attempts to find…
BBC AFRICAN NEWS A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong. The case stems from comments Agyapong made about Anas after his BBC investigation…
By Staff Writer Residents of Acomia trading centre, Kateta Sub County in Serere district have banished a woman who threw her newborn baby in a pit latrine. Gloria Icoris, who has been a teacher at Acomia Community Nursery School located in Acomia…
By Stanley Ebele Farm Radio International, with funding from the World Food Program-WFP, has donated solar powered digital radio handsets to 54 community listener groups in the nine districts of Karamoja sub region. The groups are from Kotido, Kaabong, Karenga and Abim…
By Stanley Ebele The police in Kotido are still keeping in their custody two senior district officials being investigated over mismanagement of Emyooga projects disbursed in 2019, in violation of the 48 hour rule. The Ugandan constitution requires that a suspected is…
By Joshua Imalingat Children of school going age in Karamoja sub region will soon be required to compulsorily attend school if a motion mooted by the Karamoja Members of Parliament is adopted in the forthcoming regional parliamentary sitting in Gulu. Parliament is…
By Jennifer Acheng Abim elders through the district elder’s council are seeking a meeting with president, Yoweri Museveni over a number of pertinent issues affecting the district. The elders say the district has registered a number of unresolved issues ranging from compensation…