Flood victims in Amuru district are yet to get relief aid, three days after being displaced. River Unyama burst its banks on Tuesday night and displaced more than 6,000 people at Ilegu town at the Uganda-South Sudan border.
The Ugandan army has been accused of illegally occupying a community Polytechnic that is meant to offer life skills to the youths in Amuru district. Amuru Polytechnic was constructed in 2008 with support from DED, a Germany-based Civil Peace Service, at a cost of more than 600 million shillings.
At least 6,500 people in the northern Uganda border market of Ilegu are homeless after River Unyama burst its banks on Tuesday night following days of torrential rains.
Jacinto Oburu, the Amuru District Police Commander says that Opelito was attacked at around 3am in the wee hours of Boxing Day at his home where he operated a video hall.
At least seven people have died and 45 others sustained serious injuries after the bus they were traveling in overturned several times along Pakwach-Karuma road.
Residents of Apaa parish, Pabbo Sub County in Amuru district have refused to leave the area claimed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority—UWA as a Game Reserve.
Residents of Amuru district say they are frustrated by their failure to secure funding for their projects under the second phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund. The Northern Uganda Social Action Fund II was launched in February 2010 and the generation of projects by the communities for funding begun five months later in August.
Thomas Kwoyelo, the former LRA rebel commander may be struggling to secure his release from jail and eventually walk to freedom but questions about his next destination expose more dilemmas.
Over 700 families of Apaa and Lakang villages in Amuru are threatening to sue Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA and the Attorney General for compensation following the destruction of their property in a raid by UWA rangers on their villages.
A police officer in Amuru district is in trouble for demanding that a complainant pays 25,000 shillings to facilitate transportation of suspects from an outpost to Gulu CPS from where they would be produced in court.
About 150 people living on the land that previously hosted Bibia Internally Displaced Peoples’ camp could soon become homeless following a directive to have them evicted.
Gunfire rocked Atiak trading center in Amuru district last evening when police shot in the air to disperse residents who were scrambling to scoop fuel from a tanker that had over turned.
Residents of Apaa village, Labala parish in Amuru district, who were recently evicted by the Uganda Wildlife Authority from an area claimed to be a game reserve, have rejected a consignment of relief items delivered by the Office of the Prime Minister.
Several school children and teachers at Mutema primary school in Amuru district are beaming with excitement following the acquisition of a computer laboratory. The computer laboratory is equipped with new ten desktop computers, internet connection, a printer and solar power. The facilities are part of an 800 million shillings project by the World Vision.
At least 78 bodies were this afternoon exhumed at Atiak Sub County headquarters, Amuru district to pave way for infrastructural development on the land.
