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by James Omara in Lira

Members of Lira district local council have planned to build a modern stadium and airport using Peace Recovery and Development Funds (PRDP) in the next financial year. [Read more →]

 By Stephen Candia and Gloria Laker

NEBBI-The rural Small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the West Nile district of Nebbi are  resorting to keeping their money in metallic boxes of the village savings scheme other than with big financial institutions [Read more →]

LRA-rebels are splitting up in several smaller groups. According to UN-Peacekeeping Forces (Monuc) the  troups from Uganda, Congo and South Sudan have to divide their power as a result of the LRA strategy. It is not clear where Kony and the other LRA leaders are.

The armies of Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC last November launched a joint offensive code-named ‘Operation Lightning Thunder’, to flush out the rebels.

Sources: Congoforum, New Vision

By James Omara in Lira

THE ordinary people, who, after years in the Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps have decided to go back to their homes, may not know what the Peace Recovery Development Programme (PRDP) is, but the one thing they know is that the government has pledged to restore social harmony and to support them to rebuild their lives. [Read more →]

A senior commander the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been killed during the on-going joint military operation to wipe out the rebel group holed up in northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lt. Col Okello Yape, whose role in the LRA is not yet clear, was killed in southwest of Ri-Kwangba, a remote border area in southern Sudan, according to a statement of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF).

Source: Monuc

By James Omara

President Yuweri Kakuta Museveni promises the people of northern Uganda peace as long as he is in power.  Museveni was recently meeting head teachers in Lira district at Ngetta DFI to forge way forward on the poor education standard that has rocked the country. He also promised to raise salaries of  secondary school teachers.

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By James Omara in Lira

The Uganda Peoples Congress party has accused the government for using money meant for Peace Recovery and Development Program in fighting Lords resistance army in DR Congo instead of developing Northern Uganda.

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The latest sleaze from Lira district is that some women, believed to be connected with FDC party have invaded UPC party leadership and are using their feminine charms to create confusion and frustration in the party, according to Lira District UPC leader Dan Okello.
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By James Omara The joint offensive against the LRA by UPDF Special Forces, SPLA and DR Congo troops is now in its second month after the first attack on December 14. The question many are asking, however, is how long will Uganda stay in DRC to finish the operation?UPDF Special Forces prepare to leave Entebbe Airbase for Operation Lightning Thunder in Garamba, last month.

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photo: Sunday Monitor

By James Omara in Lira

 The Won-Nyaci of Lango and president of the Lango Cultural Foundation Yosam Odur Ebii is very disappointed with the political leaders in Lango sub region. He finds them ‘anti development’ and blaims them for a wrong trend in political behaviour.

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