Closure of schools for could fuel the already high cases of child pregnancies among school girls Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bundibugyo district is resorting to the use para-social workers to address cases of child pregnancies during the closure of schools. Last week, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced fresh restrictions …
Read More »Eight UPDF soldiers injured in Bundibugyo accident
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight Uganda People’s Defense Forces soldiers are nursing injuries following a road accident in Bundibugyo district. The eight were injured in an accident which also claimed the life of a pedestrian identified as Eric Kiiiza on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred when a numberless armored …
Read More »Bundibugyo leaders ask government to resolve row over hoisting of the OBB flag
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Bundibugyo district have asked government to resolve the row surrounding the hoisting of the Obudingiya Bwa Bwamba-OBB flag in the kingdom. The OBB flag has not been hoisted in the district since 2016 following the politically orchestrated tribal clashes between the Bamba and …
Read More »OBB leaders remind President Museveni to honour pledges to the kingdom
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The leadership of Obudingiya Bwa Bwamba-OBB in Bundibugyo district has asked President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to fulfil the pledges he made to their cultural leader Omudhingiya, retired Col. Martin Ayongi Kamya. In 2014, the government recognized Kamya, the son of Edward Kawamara, one of the …
Read More »Speeding taxi knocks four dead in Bundibugyo
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four people have been confirmed dead following an accident along the Bundibugyo-Fort-Portal road in Bundibugyo district. The accident occurred last evening at Bugama village in the middle of Semuliki National Park. According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred when a speeding taxi registration number UBH 654J lost …
Read More »UEDCL tackles Bundibugyo electricity challenge
Electricity consumers in Bundibugyo and Ntoroko districts want power distributor to meet their expectations Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Imlan Lutaaya, 24, the proprietor of Kuteesa Metal Works, a six months old welding startup, located in Nyahuka Town Council, Bundibugyo District has his eyes on the new power distributor …
Read More »UEDCL takes over power distribution in Bundibugyo
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited-UEDCL has taken over power distribution in Bundibugyo district. It replaces the Bundibugyo Energy Cooperative Society- BECS. In 2009, Bundibugyo Energy and Cooperative Society won the concession to manage the power line in the district. According to the concession, the …
Read More »300 health workers in Bundibugyo get Covid-19 jab
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 300 health workers have so far been vaccinated against Covid-19 in Bundibugyo district. The vaccination centres are Bundibugyo hospital, Nyahuka HCIV, Butama, Ntandi and Kikyo HCIIIs. Dr Christopher Kiyita, the district health officer, says that 600 health workers in public and private health facilities across …
Read More »NUP supporters in Kasese, Bundibugyo welcome withdrawal of election petition
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP party in Kasese and Bundibugyo districts have welcomed the decision by party president Robert Kyagulanyi to withdraw his presidential election petition from the court. Kyagulanyi on Monday ordered his lawyers to withdraw a petition that he had filed in …
Read More »NUP candidate withdraws from Bundibugyo Woman MP race
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the Bundibugyo district Woman Member of Parliament seat has pulled out of the race. Harriet Musumba was to contest against NRM’s Josephine Babungi and independent candidate Harriet Ntabazi in next year’s general elections. Musumba communicated her withdraw in …
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