Properties worth millions of shillings were on Sunday night burnt to ashes in a fire incident that gutted hotel Pan Afric in Lira town.
The fire that broke out at around 11:15 pm on Sunday reportedly is believed to have been sparked of by electricity power irregularity at the hotel.
Imat Salume Angwech Bua, the mother of Uganda’s first Olympic Gold medalist John Akii-Bua, has passed away in Lira town. She died on Wednesday evening at the age of 104.
A total of 19 Dodoth cattle rustlers have surrendered to Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) in Kaabong district. The rustlers mainly from the Dodoth clan in Karamoja region have been living in South Sudan after they fled the country around 2007 at the height of the disarmament exercise.
Lango Paramount Chief Yosam Odur has offered to spearhead a fundraising drive to collect money for rehabilitating a refrigerator for preserving dead bodies at Lira Army Barracks.
Over 600 inmates at Lira Central government prison on Wednesday evening clashed with armed security personnel during a protest against what they described as delayed justice.
More than 10 households in Ojwina Division, Lira municipality, were on Sunday evening left homeless after a fire gutted a residential building they were living in.
Veteran politician Cecilia Atim Ogwal wants the bodies of former President Apollo Milton Obote and Army Chief of Staff, Major General David Oyite Ojok, exhumed and buried at Kololo heroes cemetery.
Benjamin Okii, the proprietor of the ill fated workshop says that he lost 22 machines used for designing timber.
The fire outbreak that broke started around few minutes passed 1am on Saturday burnt numerous properties including several ready beds, chairs, raw timbers and 22 machines for designing timber.
The army is involved in monitoring the implementation of the IDP resettlement, the National Agricultural Advisory Services - NAADS and Northern Uganda Social Action Fund II –NUSAF projects.
Lira town residents have been forced to resort to traditional methods of preservation of dead bodies after the breakdown of the military fridge at Lira army barracks.
During the campaign under the theme “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Let’s Challenge Militarism and End Violence against Women!†rural women are going to be screened and later treated for cervical cancer.
