The annual food security and nutrition survey conducted between March and April this year reveals that only 58.2 per cent of mothers in host communities exclusively breastfeed their children while 41.8 per cent don’t.
Rhoda Akec, another refugee says most food prices within Kiryandongo Refugee settlement have doubled or tripled recently leaving most vulnerable members unable to afford them.
Some of the refugees say since 2013 and 2016 when they arrived at the settlement, the land allocated to them has been gradually reduced, leaving them with no space for farming.
According to Lamaro, through ARSDP, UPIK partnered with the French Institute of Petroleum-IFP training from France to support the institution to adopt its curricula and training infrastructure to international standards, adding that the partnership has seen the institution develop five competency-based Oil and gas courses for technicians, construct and equip five new training workshops for the delivery the courses.
The over 500 farmers mostly from the village of Yelekeni in Bweyale Town council are engaging in maize farming, piggery and poultry keeping among others. to boost the productivity and quality of their products, the NAADS secretariat established a grain store and donated to them a tractor and a semi-automated maize mill.
It is alleged that on Sunday night at around 11:30 p.m Odongo and Etyang picked a quarrel while in one of the bars in Padeya village and in the process, Etyang hit Odongo with a blunt object in the head killing him instantly. But area residents avenged by attacking Etyang whom they also beat to death.
The attackers raided a video hall belonging to Godfrey Otingcwinyu around 8:30 pm on Sunday and started assaulting people who were found watching a premier league match.
The Kiryandongo Resident District Commissioner Paul Peter Debele who chaired the meeting asked the occupants to vacate the area by 12th July 2021, this Monday.
Charles Omiya, a resident of Karuma Town Council told URN on Sunday that Opota abandoned his teaching job 7 years ago for unknown reasons and to fishing for livelihood.
Joseph Oryem, the LCI Karuma Town Council says that the deceased was extracting construction aggregates for sale when the soil developed deep cracks forcing the rocks to roll down and buried them.
On Saturday URN visited and traversed the area but discovered less than 50 people at Okweche Trading Centre where the incident occurred while the entire parts of the area looked abandoned with all houses under lock, grasses eating up the compounds and no footprints visible anywhere. Many domestic animals and poultry were seen roaming the area unattended to.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police spokesperson told Uganda Radio Network on Monday that 27 out of the 42 suspects were released on police bond over the weekend as per the advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions-DPP.
