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A repeat of the 2012 disaster that led to death of hundreds of Ugandans in Bududa resurrected on Thursday evening when heavy mudslides hit the area again leading to death of twenty people with more yet to be confirmed. Among the dead include primary school pupils and over 500 people were left with no homes.The […]
The landslides victims in Bududa district go without meals some days according to area local council leaders, MPs and opinion leaders. The area local leadership told our informers in the area that the food stuffs the central government and non governmental organisations gave to them was not enough. The children of the people of […]
The MP for Manjia county in Bududa district who has been the former state minister for Northern Uganda David wakiikona has called for immediate action on the land slides in Bududa. Addressing journalists at parliament Wakiikona said that landslides are of a major threat to the area and therefore a need for quicker intervention. He says that […]
The government has warned people from Bududa and neighbouring areas who are going to Kiryandongo to join the Budada people resettled there after landslides displaced thousands of them. The Minister of Distaster Preparedness, Musa Ecweru says that there are people from Bududa who were not affected by the landslides but have followed affected friends […]
Ultimate Media The Prime Minister of Uganda Prof. Apollo Nsibambi has said the government is determined to relocate the Bududa landslide victims from Bududa to Kiryandongo. He has told journalists in Kampala today that each family of the Bududa landslides victims will get 2.5 acres of land in Kiryandongo district. However the landslides victims in […]
Ultimate Media The landslides survivors in Bududa district have received food aid from born again Christians. Pastor Joseph Serwadda of Ndeeba Victory Church and a group of other Christians supplied 140 bags of beans and 360 bags of maize flour to the survivors of landslides. The landslides in March this year covered the villages […]
Landslides have once again hit some parts of Bududa district leaving a number of people displaced and some roads connecting villages damaged. The district that has been experiencing heavy down pours in the past day that has resulted into a mild landslide that has destroyed three villages in Bulucheke Sub-County of Budada District. According to […]
Ultimate Media The Lugazi based sugar corporation of Uganda limited (SCOUL) in Mukono district has like many other organizations responded to the Uganda Red Cross’ call by extending help to the people of Bududa that were affected by landslide about a month ago. The Sugar factory donated 100 bags of Sugar to the victims which […]
Currently, more than 100,000 people (12,500 households) are at a risk of landslides in the Mt. Elgon and Rwenzori sub-regions. As stated above, upto 20,000 of them are likely to be displaced between November 2015 and February 2016. According to a World Meteorological Organization report Uganda and other East African Countries would experience an El […]
Ugandans who were displaced by the landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda are to be resettled in an eco-village. Sources in ministry of lands in Kampala says that the NRM government intends to permanently move the affected people from Bududa into highly developed settlement schemes where they would be provided with all the basic requirements in […]