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Sebei girls to face Karamoja’s, Moroto Boma grounds in fight against FGM

By Longok Mathew AbeksonThe sabiny female sports girls for CMNI girls FC arrived in Moroto for a friendly match with Moroto based Tita FC at Moroto Boma grounds scheduled for tomorrow Saturday 15th, October 2022.The event which is organised by Community Media Network International (CMNI) with support from Research Triangle …

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COMMUNITY POLICING HAILED FOR TICKLING ARUA MEN TO REPORT SEXUAL, GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 Following years of intense community policing to promote sexual and reproductive health rights awareness, the men in Arua city have finally begun to open up on sexual and gender-based violence. Jimmy Anguyo, the commandant of the child and family protection unit at …

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UNDERSTANDING THE LAND DISPUTE AFFECTING THE WADELAI IRRIGATION SCHEME IN PAKWACH

BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …

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MINISTRY OF HEALTH TO START INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING IN WEST NILE

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 The ministry of health has set aside $26million (about sh93b) to start indoor residual spraying in the west Nile sub-region this month. According to records from the Ministry of Health, West Nile has a high malaria transmission with 80% of people with fever …

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INFORMATION SHARING KEY TO FIGHTING MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS IN ADJUMANI-HENRY LULU

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022 The Adjumani district’s assistant health officer, Henry Lulu, has advised that the approach of identifying and diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) must be changed from people waiting to first fall sick to a deliberate information sharing and sensitization of the masses if the district …

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PARENTS, GOV’T URGED TO BUILD MORE CLASSROOMS, LATRINES IN ADJUMANI GIRLS’ PRIMARY SCHOOL

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022 The management of Adjumani girls’ primary school has urged the parents and the government to intervene to address the inadequate classrooms and lack of washrooms for the girl child in Adjumani girls’ primary school. The school which initially began as a girls’ …

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MEMPRO TIPS ARUA JOURNALISTS ON REPORTING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 The training focusing on gender sensitive reporting of sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) brought together 20 journalists, media personalities and social media influencers from Arua City and Terego district. “Usually after such trainings, things that you had been taking for granted …

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EBOLA OUTBREAK: ADJUMANI DISTRICT ON HIGH ALERT, ASKS FOR PPE FOR HEALTH WORKERS

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 Adjumani district health department is on heightened alert following the death of a patient in the neighbouring Amuru district who showed Ebola like symptoms. The exact cause of the death is not yet confirmed but it comes at a time when the country …

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JUDICIARY TO STRENGTHEN INNOVATIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JUSTICE-PRINCIPAL JUDGE FLAVIAN ZEIJA

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 The principal judge, Dr Flavian Zeija, has said that the judiciary will strengthen innovations that it has introduced in order to improve access to justice by the litigants. He listed operationalization of more courts to reduce the distance for the people to …

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