EAST AFRICA NEWS

UPDF Amplifies Greening Uganda Campaign With Local Governments To Promote Orchard Farming And Environmental Conservation The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has today partnered with the Local Governments of Manafwa and Mbale districts to promote orchard farming and environmental conservation in the Elgon Sub-region with support of fruits & indigenous …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 Uganda is one of the five countries with the highest level of treatment coverage for tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organisation has confirmed in its latest report. It joins China, Bangaladesh, Brazil and Zambia in that small league of countries to have …

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022 South Sudan refugees in Adjumani district engaged in commercial farming in partnership with host communities have a means to the production of maize and cassava after they received a tractor from the Action Against Hunger (ACF). ACF under the Right to Grow Project …

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022 The Adjumani district’s assistant health officer, Henry Lulu, has advised that the approach of identifying and diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) must be changed from people waiting to first fall sick to a deliberate information sharing and sensitization of the masses if the district …

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 Adjumani district health department is on heightened alert following the death of a patient in the neighbouring Amuru district who showed Ebola like symptoms. The exact cause of the death is not yet confirmed but it comes at a time when the country …

BY GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI KAMPALA: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 The management of society is becoming complicated every day from internal conflicts and external challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war which are showing the nakedness of Africa in Global Politics. In response, David Mafabi, the Senior Presidential Advisor on …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined the fight against the new Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda, boosting the efforts of the Ministry of Health to stop the contagion. Health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 The ministry of health has ruled out any travel restrictions within or outside Uganda as a result of the confirmed outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in Mubende district. The ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr Diana Atwine, in a statement has instead urged …

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: Tuesday, September 20, 2022  STRABAG, an Austrian construction company undertaking the tarmacking of the Atiak-Laropi road, has asked for an extension of the contract period for additional 18 months. Sources from the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) have confirmed that the contractor will not be able …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU KOBOKO: Monday, September 19, 2022 Koboko district has shut down eight charcoal markets at Busia border crossing following the Rainforest journalism Fund supported article on Mount Kei Forest Reserve. “I closed all the eight big markets at Busia where they were trading charcoal. There was resistance from …