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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022 The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has launched a fundraising campaign aimed at mobilizing resources for conservation of Silver-back Gorillas. UWA- Bwindi, in partnership with  “GORILLAS  our friends FOREVER” Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-Evan), and local …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU                   ARUA: TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 Prof Christine Dranzoa, Muni University’s top ranked scientist and Vice chancellor has passed on. A natural and biological scientist, Dranzoa’s areas of specialty included biodiversity conservation, ecology, tourism, and gender and community development. At the time of her demise at about 3:30am last …

BY CHRIS FRANK HOIMA: MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022 President Yoweri Museveni has tasked religious leaders to mobilize their parishioners to embrace the Parish Developmental Model Program that is currently being rolled out in the country. The call was part of his message during the groundbreaking ceremony and fundraising drive for …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A rough, dusty road from Yumbe town in West Nile sub-region of Uganda passes through Mount Kei national forest reserve (formally known as Mount …

BY TIMOTHY EODU NAPAK: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022 Napak district in Karamoja Sub Region has received a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines to be rolled out in the third phase beginning early next month. The officials of the district, which is among those that performed poorly in the previous campaigns, are …

BY LAWRENCE OKWAKOL BUKEDEA: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has given sh640m support to 128 groups from the three sub counties of Kamutur, Aminit and Kolir in Bukedea district. Zipporah Akol, the political assistant to Rt Hon Among, who is also the woman member of …

BY CHRIS JAMES WOO OYAM: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 Oyam district in northern Uganda is eyeing a 40% increment in vegetable production through promotion of smallholder irrigation farming. However the district is placing its faith in the German Development Agency, GIZ to help it realize that vision. Last week it …

BY GLADYS KASLINE LAKAREBER KITGUM: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022 Kitgum district health department has received 51,602 doses of vaccines for the third round of Covid-19 mass vaccination campaign which is to kick off on June 21, 2022. But unlike the previous campaigns, the focus this time is on children age …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2022 Over the weekend, Girls Must Uganda, a local civil society organization, summoned over 20 young women activists, feminists, rights defenders, councilors, probation officers and journalists in Kabale and Rukiga districts for a lesson on digital safety. Maurine Tukahirwa, the chief Executive Officer …

PARENTS TO BE CONSULTED IN UGANDA BEFORE VACCINATING CHILDREN AGAINST COVID19 By Goodluck Musinguzi “The vaccination of children aged 5-17 years will only and only, I repeat will only be undertaken if parents accept their children to be vaccinated (against COVID-19)”, Hon Jane Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health. “We do …