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Kitgum residents intercept truck carrying stolen livestock

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Corner Mission Cell in Pager division, Kitgum municipality on Monday intercepted a truck transporting suspected stolen cattle from Lamwo district. The chairperson of security surveillance for the Pager division Agnes Atim Onek, says that the Fuso truck registration number UBF 400C was transporting 22 …

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Twelve arrested in Kiruhura for flouting FMD quarantine

Kiruhura district banned the movement, sale and slaughtering of cattle following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease Kiruhura, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kiruhura has arrested 12 people for allegedly flouting the Foot and Mouth disease quarantine. They were arrested on Thursday night at Ahakageti village in Sanga …

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Gov’t delivers 900,000 foot and mouth disease vaccine dozes

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has so far delivered nine hundred thousand dozes of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) vaccines to affected areas, two months after it announced a mass vaccination exercise. The country has been battling an FMD outbreak since December 2020, when it was first detected …

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Security in Agago recoveries 26 stolen cattle

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Twenty-six cattle raided by suspected Karamojong rustlers have been recovered by Local Defense Unit-LDU and local leaders in Agago district.  The cows were recovered on Tuesday night during a manhunt for the suspected rustlers following their raid in Biwaga Parish in Lira-Kato Sub County on …

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Gulu district struggles to contain outbreak of black quarter disease

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district veterinary department is struggling to contain an outbreak of black quarter disease following the death of 50 cattle. The black quarter disease is an acute animal’s disease characterized by emphysematous swelling in the heavy muscles of the animals. The animals with the disease present …

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Sironko pleads for more FMD vaccines

Sironko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Sironko district is seeking more vaccines to vaccinate more cattle against Foot and Mouth Disease-FMD after using up the 500 doses supplied by the Ministry of Agricultural, Animal Industry and Fisheries-MAAIF. The District Veterinary Officer, John Wanzala, says FMD broke out in the district in …

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