Tag Archives: Lango

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Lango sub-region has witnessed a significant increase in Viral Load Suppression (VLS) over the past five years. The suppression rate has risen to 94 percent between 2018 and 2022, in contrast to the previous ten years when the sub-region struggled to surpass a …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | System of land ownership and greed have been identified as the major causes of increasing land disputes in the Lango sub-region. In Lango, land is customarily owned where pieces of land belong to particular households, communities, and or the clan. Since there is no …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The cultural leadership in Lango has taken a proactive stance in the fight against the rampant Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence within the sub-region. Lango ranks second only to the Kampala Metropolitan area in terms of the highest burden of TB cases in the country. Notably, …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The leadership of Tekwaro Lango, a parallel faction of Lango cultural leadership in conjunction with the Ministry of Water and Environment has launched a tree planting drive in an attempt to avert climate change. The drive dubbed “the Greening Lango Project” will have a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Lira has awarded 68 billion Shillings in compensation to more than 5,000 families after the government set up an Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camp on their land. In 2016, the families acting under their umbrella Lango Camp Host Association (LACHA) filed …

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF have recovered 2,700 cattle that were raided from East Acholi by suspected Karamojong rustlers. Capt. Amos Nsamba, the Spokesperson of the UPDF 5th Division, says that the animals were recovered in the past six months from Kitgum, Pader, Lamwo in Acholi …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lango Province stormed the finals of the FUFA Drum tournament after beating Toro province 1:0 at Akii Bua memorial stadium. Allan Okello netted the lone goal for Lango Province from a spot kick in the second leg game played on at Akii Bua stadium on …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lango sub-region has received with shock the news of the demise of Supreme Court Justice, Ruby Opio Aweri. He passed on Wednesday morning from Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was admitted two weeks ago. His death shocked the entire sub-region where people described him as …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Visually impaired people in Lango sub region will now be able to read a complete version of the bible following the launch of the first-ever braille bible. Braille is a system that uses raised dots, to form a coded reading language for the visually impaired. …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Muslim factions in Lango are embroiled in a fight over the ownership of Muslim properties. The dispute pits the Lango Muslim leadership under the Kadhi, Sheikh Ishaq Salim Nangoye and the leadership of Madina Faiza Mosque commonly known as Lira PS under Sheikh Muhammad Yusuf …