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Ultimate Media The ruling National Resistance Movement government has been asked to speed up the process of relocating the bududa land slide victims to enable schools in the affected region open on time. The massive landslides in March this year in Eastern Uganda left over 300 dead and thousands displaced. The national chairperson of […]
Ultimate Media Kayunga district Chairman Boniface Bandikubi has urged Bududa landslides survivors to accept to be relocated to Kayunga district without any conditions. Bandikubi says the survivors should accept the 4- square miles of public land that was donated to them by the district. He adds that the continued stay of the survivors in […]
Ultimate Media The Uganda Red Cross Society has started relocating thousands of people who remain at the risk of being hit by landslides in Bududa district. The landslides that struck three villages of Bududa earlier this month left over 90 people dead and over 300 people missing while thousands of others displaced. A recent […]
Ultimate Media The landslides victims in Bududa district have today received another consignment of food from the office of the Katikkiro (prime minister) of Buganda, Eng. John Baptist Walusimbi. A total of 1,000 bags of maize flour and 700 bags of beans were delivered to vulnerable people of Bududa through Uganda Red Cross Society. […]
Ultimate Media The minister for Refugees and Disaster preparedness has urged the leaders in Bududa district to offer maximum cooperation with the central government as it resettles the landslide victims. Receiving a 100 million cheque from Total Uganda as an aid of the people of Bududa this morning, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere noted that some leaders […]
YMCA student Brian Isiko was on Thursday granted bail on a cash bond of Shs1 million by the Buganda Road Court grade one magistrate Stellah Amabilis pending the hearing of the case. Isiko is accused of sending love messages to to Kabarole district woman MP Sylvia Rwaboogo who termed them as being against her life […]
Uganda Human Rights Commission is demanding Government to avail the outcome of the findings of Kasubi Tombs fire, the Bududa Landslide and the bomb blast on 11th July 2010 that claimed many lives of Ugandans so that the families are compensated and demand for implementation to be effected. The Chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission Med Kagwa while presenting […]
The government has promised to resettle all people affected living in mountainous areas to avoid the re-occurrence of the March 2010 landslides in Bududa district of eastern Uganda. The landslides killed about 300 people and left more than 8,000 without shelter. About 2,500 of the Bududa landslide victims were transferred to a resettlement camp in […]
Despite threats of terrorist attacks, Ugandans turned up in big numbers to mark the beginning of 2011 in different public venues in Kampala. New year music shows were held in different parts of Kampala and Entebbe, while thousands gathered at Serena and Sheraton Hotels for the usual end of year fireworks. At exactly 12am Saturday, […]
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has given Uganda over 328 million shillings towards the Bududa Landslide disaster fund to help the flood victims. The massive landslides in Bududa covered a family of six people including five children and an old man last week. The cheque has been handed to Minister of Uganda for Foreign […]