Environmentalists have asked government to consider closing the widening policy gap between the communities to drastically address issues of climate change. Disseminating findings of disaster risks in Uganda carried out from the five districts of Kasese, Katakwi, Kabale, Kawempe and Mbale, the programme officer DENIVA Uganda, Anne Akwango and Reuben Mbawuta state that 80% of the populations […]
The disaster preparedness and Refugee stores have run out of food for relief food. This has been revealed by the Minister of disaster preparedness and Refugees, Engineer Hilary Onek, while appearing before the Human Rights committee of parliament chaired by woman MP for Mitoma district. Onek said that for the last five months disaster preparedness stores […]
Tears and shock engulfed the people of Bududa district in eastern Uganda after 11 pregnant women were buried live by the mudslides. The ministry for disaster preparedness confirms that 28 people were buried live including the 11 pregnant women. The relief and disaster preparedness minister Steven Mallinga says his ministry is about to get […]
Residents of Wiila Sub County in the eastern district of Amuria are arriving in Kampala to take part in the ninth edition of the Annual MTN Kampala Marathon, slated for Sunday November 27, 2011, setting off from the Kololo Airstrip. The exercise under the theme ‘What’s Your Reason To Run?’ is expected to attract over 20,000 people […]
The minister for disaster preparedness Musa Ecweru has directed the people living in the steep hills of Mt Rwenzori to relocate to area that are relatively safe. Ecweru says the environmental degradation has inflicted on the environment across the country citing landsides, hailstorms and lightening among other dangers people on mountains are prone to. He […]