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Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The skyrocketing sorghum prices in Karamoja have forced farmers in Kotido district to resort to harvesting pre-mature sorghum to save their families from dying of hunger. The sorghum in Karamoja matures between 90 to 140 days and is ready for harvesting when the crop has …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Personnel  of the Anti-Stock Theft Unit, a branch of Uganda Police Force directly handling animal rustling in Karamoja, have tightened security and alertness at their detaches after the Karamojong rustlers resumed their attacks on ASTU detaches in search of guns. On Friday at 8pm, a …

Kotido is facing acute food shortage Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifty-eight people in Kotido district have reportedly died of hunger between May and June this year due to the food crisis in the Karamoja sub-region. A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification(IPC) indicates that about 518,000 people, …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kotido authorities have scaled down the official working hours because of the tense security situation resulting from increased attacks by armed rustlers. The Resident District Commissioner, Ambrose Onoria revealed this to URN on Thursday shortly after holding a District Security Meeting. According to Onoria, the …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of United Nations World Food Program, WFP stationed in Karamoja are gripped with shock after a section of their team was ambushed and robbed by armed Karamojong cattle rustlers. The UN officials were ambushed on Thursday morning as they were heading for field …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business is paralyzed in Kotido district following the killing of the Napumpum sub-county LCIII chairperson Paul Lowok. He was gunned down by suspected Karamojong rustlers. Joseph Lokiru, a resident of Napumpum told URN that the deceased was drinking together with his friends on Sunday when he …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kotido Cultural Elder’s Council has rejected calls by the local leaders to revive the Morutit and Nabilatuk Resolution as one of the measures to stem cattle theft. In 2013, the council of Elders in North and South Karamoja adopted the Morutit and Nabilatuk Resolution, …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Kotido district are alarmed by the invasion of armyworms which are scaring them from opening up their gardens in the first season of rain. The farmers in Kotido confirmed that the district has been affected by the invasion of the armyworms, a pest …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several Local Council One-LC 1 chairpersons in Kotido district have abandoned their work citing threats to their lives. Kotido Resident District Commissioner, Ambrose Onoria disclosed this on Saturday during the destruction of 378 illegal firearms recovered from warriors. According to Onoria, the LC I …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aped Longole, the former Napumpum sub-county LCIII vice chairperson in Kotido district who was gunned down by joint security forces on Thursday night was a notorious rustler before he joined politics, URN has learnt. Longole was killed while driving rustled animals from Apeitolim in Napak …