Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Acholi leaders have threatened to pitch camp in the contested Apaa township between Adjumani and Amuru districts until the government finds a lasting solution to the land dispute in the area. The resolution was arrived at on Monday during a joint consultative meeting of the …
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Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents want Apaa township turned into a semi-autonomous sub county to curb conflicts over ownership of the area. Ancestral ownership of Apaa township which borders Amuru and Adjumani districts measures approximately 42 square kilometres and is highly contested between the Madi of Adjumani and Acholi …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny Dollo Chigamoyi has cautioned Members of Parliament and Acholi elites against inciting violence in Apaa Township. Owiny Dollo warned that everyone should desist from preaching and inciting violence among the people in a move to avenge rights violence and …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament from the Acholi sub region have disagreed over a proposal by Apaa Township residents to undress in protest over the conflict in Apaa. Gilbert Olanya, the Kilak South Member of Parliament proposed that the solution to the armed conflicts and violence …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP), Mathias Mpuuga has challenged cultural and religious leaders to speak up against human rights violations in the country. Mpuuga started off his outreach programme on Friday, 22 October 2021, with meetings with religious leaders under the Acholi …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Acholi have issued a 14 days ultimatum to nomadic Balalo grazing livestock in the region without requisite authorization to register their presence with local leaders or face expulsion. The latest move by the leaders aims at reaffirming a rigid standpoint in a bid …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Acholi sub-region are puzzled by hundreds of ghost names that have infiltrated the Attorney General’s registers for war claimants. The ghost claimants are part of the names that have been verified by the government through the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs due …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Acholi war debt claimants will be compensated one million up from 600,000 Shillings for each head of cattle lost in a revised rate pronounced by the Deputy Attorney General Jackson Kafuuzi on Wednesday. Government has so far verified a total of 16,946 claimants in Acholi. …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu College of Health Sciences will reopen next week, two weeks after it was closed following a strike. On September 9, more than 300 students of the College protested against the new fees structure levied by Management. According to the structure, Diploma certificate private-sponsored …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers in the Acholi Sub Region have asked parents to support pregnant teenage girls to attend all cycles of antenatal care to avoid deaths and birth complications. According to records obtained from the different health facilities across the region; 2,006 maternal deaths …
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