Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tea farmers in Buhweju district are seeking compensation of over three billion Shillings from the Igara Growers Tea Factory. They claim to have provided the factory with green- tea leaves over four months but have not received payment. Nicholas Abenaitwe, a tea farmer, expresses the …
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Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bistya and Kirungu Sub Counties in Buhweju District are excited following the commission for the construction of a 21 billion Shillings gravity water project. The water project that will serve over 50,000 residents from 39 Villages in six parishes will be constructed with …
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Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Sabiiti, former lecturer at Makerere University has been arrested for allegedly hacking his daughters to death and injuring another. He was picked up from his hideout in Rujenje village, Buhweju district. Sabiiti, a resident of Kabutsye village is wanted for hacking to death his …
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Sheema, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Water and Environment has patterned with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an international organization to restore more than 3,000 acres of wetlands in Sheema and Buhweju districts. Since last week, police have been destroying gardens, covered big pits of brick …
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Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tea farmers in Buhweju district are stuck with their produce due to shortage of factories. The farmers supply their produce to Igara-Buhweju tea factory, the only factory in the district. It was constructed in 2010 with the capacity of producing 100,000 kilograms, however, the farmers …
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Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Small scale artisanal miners in Buhweju in Western Uganda are still chasing for permission to go back to their mines six years after they were evicted and a year since they last petitioned the government. In 2013, President Museveni directed that firms involved in gold …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The persistent use of hazardous substances by artisanal and small scale miners in gold sites is perturbing environmentalists and health rights activists in gold-rich Buhweju district. The groups say that artisanal miners are continuously using toxic mercury to extract minute pieces of gold that …
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