Mbarara Municipality Mayor Robert Mugabe Kakyebezi says that the water hyacinth has affected the bigger part of the river in the municipality and the bigger part of Buhweju, Sheema, and Mbarara districts. Kakyebezi says the situation is beyond their control and that they have been engaging NEMA to move in and save the situation.
Read more ...Residents claim that unidentified men backed armed police officers have made it a habit to descend on the forest and cut down trees. They claim that the loggers show up with letters from the National Forestry Authority-NFA authorizing them to cut trees in preparation for a fresh planting exercise.
Read more ...Brian Oponjuru, a maize farmer in the same area says he lost 2 acres of his maize to the floods. He says he invested his hard earned money in the garden through use of tractors and improved variety of the maize seeds but all have gone to waste.
Read more ...Eng. Paul Logole, the Kotido District Engineer, says that he has forwarded a list of three bridges in Rengen Sub County to the Works Ministry for action. He said the district doesn’t have enough resources to fund construction of bridges.
Read more ...Farmers from both two sub-counties who own land in Kicumbi wetland in Kamuganguzi Sub County are pushing for compensation from the government.
Read more ...James Musinguzi the UWEC Executive Director urged conservationists to involve in activities that would protect Wildlife to promote tourism, and preserve environment. He says such efforts help in mitigating such wildlife-human conflict.
Read more ...Otunga says that since then, they have been utilizing the wetland for survival. He wants the government to give them alternative land equivalent to the wetlands where they have been cultivating.
Read more ...Ambrose Shilimi, the Head Teacher Covenant nursery and primary school says that during the rainy season, the sewerage spills and floods in part of the school compound.
Read more ...According to the local leaders in Eastern Division, the Christian part of the cemetery is full and should be relocated and the area be occupied by something else like a health facility.
Read more ...The performer drew inspirations from his country’s horrific experience of World War II when the United States detonated two nuclear weapons, 600 meters above Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The explosions wiped out 90 per cent of the cities and instantly killed 80,000 people. Others, in tens of thousands, died of radiation exposure years later.
Read more ...This is part of the efforts by the United Nations Development Program-UNDP and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development – IGAD, to ensure safety, security and health wellbeing of Nomads in the North Eastern Part of Uganda, North Western Kenya and South Eastern South Sudan.
Read more ...Uhuru Park along Busamaga road, which was the largest open space in Mbale town in the past, is now occupied by residential houses.
Read more ...Bunyoro Culture Minister Hajji Bruhani Kyokuhaire said that a number of sites are threatened, yet there is no deliberate effort to guarantee their protection in the rush for oil.
Read more ...A source who preferred anonymity implicated the NFA staff for conniving with the marijuana growers.
Read more ...According to the CSOs, oil companies operating in the region have not done much in conserving the environment yet their activities are a danger to the environment.
Read more ...Richard Mugolo, an engineer at Kark Technical services says construction materials including culverts, paving stones, furniture and batteries worth 7 million shillings have been stolen by residents in Kanyinyi Upper village Pakwach Sub County.
Read more ...John Okumu, the Head teacher of Naminya R/C primary attributes the high absenteeism to the poor attitude of parents towards education. He says many of them believe education has nothing to do with a person’s development in today’s Uganda.
Read more ...The residents through the mobilization of the local leaders decided to improvise wooden bridges to aid them to cross to their destination. However, they are weak and risky for crossing.
Read more ...Andrew Ahumuza, the Pakwach National Water and Sewerage Corporation NWSC engineer attributes the problem on the breakdown of treatment plant. He, however, says that the plant is under repairs.
Read more ...The KCCA Acting Executive Director Engineer Andrew Kitaaka says that despite having a drainage master plan, the authority does not have money to carry out construction works for three main channels of Kampala.
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