In February 2024, the office of the Prime Minister launched the iron sheets distribution campaign, with the first consignment of 97,552 iron sheets to be distributed to 3,752 beneficiaries across all nine districts of Karamoja.
Since they received the iron sheets, some have failed to construct the houses as per the purpose due to lack of money, triggering sales to the people who can build.
John Pasquale Udo, the Refugee Welfare Council 3 Chairperson for Palabek Refugee Settlement says out of the nine victims, five are girls while nine are boys, all from the Nuer tribe.
Joyce Nakoya, the Napak District Education Officer, said there is no clear, sustainable support for the children’s feeding program. She said that although the district wrote to the Office of the Prime Minister for food support, they are yet to receive feedback regarding their plea.
Okwi says other than offering loans to individuals, they are giving money to groups of people who have graduated from their mental therapy programme and have built bonds that enable them work together to improve their livelihoods.
Omona assured local leaders in Northern Uganda that Executive Order No. 3 still stands and would immediately resume once the government lifted the quarantine on the movement of animals.
Zacharia Onyang, the LC1 chairperson of Lokom village in Nabilatuk Sub County said that the flash floods have swept the villages of Napayan, Nawonyonoit, and Lokaala primary school.
Jonathan Moru, a farmer from Nadunget sub-county in Moroto district, laments that despite having over four acres of land prepared for planting, he is unable to proceed without seeds.
According to the eyewitnesses, due to the strong winds, the fire blew up caught the nearby hut, and later spread to 50 other huts burning them completely to ashes and leaving several household properties destroyed.
On February 2, the State Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Esther Davinia Anyakun, inaugurated the iron sheet distribution exercise at the district headquarters in the presence of local leaders, district officials, and security forces, among others.
Rose Lilly Akello, the state minister for Ethics and Integrity who was presiding over the distribution launch on Wednesday warned the beneficiaries against selling the iron sheets. Akello said that they are going to use the records for tracking the beneficiaries and those who will sell their donation will face the law.
In November 2023, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja flagged off the first consignment of iron sheets for distribution in the Karamoja sub-region. In the first phase of the exercise, 97,552 iron sheets will be distributed to 3,752 beneficiaries across all the nine districts of Karamoja.
Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo Chigamoy said on Friday that he received a letter from the President revealing that some cattle keepers were already fleeing forceful eviction from the region leaving behind their cattle.
Cecilia Kambabazi, the Assistant Community Services Officer in the Office of the Prime Minister, also recognizes the lack of safe spaces for mental health treatment and counseling sessions.
Sister Grace Angelina Aciro, the Superior General of the congregation told Uganda Radio Network Wednesday that structures at the convent have been condemned by engineers and are no longer safe for sisters.
Abraham Nangiro, the Napak District Agricultural Officer, says that the communities should consider starting up kitchen gardens for vegetables to improve food security instead of sitting to wait for relief support.
However the district officials have advised the residents to make the best use of the available water sources such as boreholes to grow vegetables in order to rescue the hunger situation and avert malnutrition.
The researchers who are led by scientists at the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) say they plan to develop a tool that uses USSD codes and can be used by both smart and feature phone users to seek information or offer alerts on what’s happening in the community and get swift feedback.
For three months, Layet and her family had to endure tough living conditions in Adilang Town Council trading center, some nine kilometers away from their village home where they sought refuge. Even when she returned home recently, Layet says she barely has enough food to feed herself and the family and notes that they don’t feel safe.
A significant number of people from villages like Naput in Rupa Sub-County, Kidepo, and Atedeoi in Lotisan Sub-County are migrating to urban areas and mining sites to work as casual laborers to make a living.
Asunta Napeyok, a farmer in Longaroi village, Lotome Sub County explained that when the rains started, they planted a lot of crops with hopes of getting a good harvest all in vain due to the harsh weather.
The communities now burn charcoal and cut firewood to exchange with local brew residue as food since they cannot afford the food sold from the market.
