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
Entries from March 2009
Village Savings take root in the West Nile Region.
March 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Livelyhood
LRA splits up in smaller units
March 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: New War
No hope for PRDP
March 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Background · PRDP
LRA commander Okello Yape killed
March 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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