Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi has pledged to establish cocoa processing factories in Bundibugyo district. According to statistics from the district commercial office, more than 85% of the population in Bundibugyo is directly dependent on cocoa. The crop also fetches …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bundibugyo district security committee has imposed a night curfew in the district to curb threats of violence ahead of the NRM party primaries. The curfew came into effect today. The Deputy RDC Umar Muhanguzi issued the directive calling on the local community to be …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political aspirants in Bundibugyo district are turning to musicians as a key tool to deliver their campaign messages to the electorate. This follows the amended Electoral Commission road map banning campaign rallies and advising aspirants to utilize virtual platforms in the wake of the …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | Prossy Nansubuga | Police in Bundibugyo on Saturday 26th June 2020, carried out an operation in and around Vision pub in Nyahuka town council, Bundibugyo district and apprehended 18 persons who were defying the Presidential directives on COVID-19. The suspects have been charged with being involved in acts …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Uganda People’s Defense Forces – UPDF soldier has shot dead a person in Butoogo, Kisuba sub county, Bundibugyo. The reasons for the shooting have not yet been established. The deceased identified as Juliet Evadesi, a 36 year old, resident of the same area, …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders in Kisuba sub county in Bundibugyo district have intensified community patrols to arrest farmers and traders involved in harvesting and selling immature cocoa. The operation has so far seen the arrest of more than 10 farmers and traders. They were detained briefly …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gen Mugisha Muntu, the National Coordinator for the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) has rallied the people of Bundibugyo and Ntoroko to join ANT and re-awaken their political spirits. Muntu was speaking in Bundibugyo on Wednesday while training the coordinators and orient them about …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents of Kisubba primary school in Bundibugyo district are unsure of the next step after Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) withheld the results. Last week, UNEB announced that the results for 61 pupils from the school were withheld over allegations of exam malpractices. However, UNEB …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Red Cross Society-URCS has commenced emergency water treatment Nyalulu river in Bundibugyo district for flood victims as flash flood water contamination persists in 12 sub counties. URCS erected the emergency water treatment plant at Nyauka bridge on Nyalulu river course, some 10 kilometers …
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Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Twelve people have been swept to their deaths by floods in western Uganda, the Red Cross said on Saturday, as the East African country is battered by torrential rain. “We have recovered 12 bodies from the water and one person has been rushed to …
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