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Story by Dramadri Federick,  westnilenews.com  . Abundoned 6 in 1 fish cages floating on River Nile in Obongi district  By Dramadri Federick ARUA: Friday, October 11, 2024 At Namsaiya cell, Roma ward in Obongi town council, a water logged area is shrouded in thickets as it straddles the shores of River Nile. It is where one of the 11 fish ponds that were earmarked under Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP) was to be constructed. Five and a-half years on, the would be beneficiaries are still waiting for the Gulu University’s Hoima Campus to deliver on the ecological fishponds that were meant to be a partnership project with the government of Uganda under the auspices of the Office of the Prime Minister. “One of the fish ponds is supposed to be constructed where that bush is but up to now it has not been constructed. We would now be reaping benefits from this fish ponds,” a resident stated. The ecological fish ponds were part of the subpr

📸: The potholed Dregua road. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. 📸: Some travelers got stuck on the road which has now developed gullies due to lack of maintenance. The residents in Maracha Constituency, Maracha District have on Thursday 3-October-2024 expressed their disappointment with Maracha District leadership for failing to maintain Dregua road which links Agaii Town council, Agaii trading center near All Saints Seed Secondary School to Obiba Sub-county upto DRC Congo border. 📸: Women volunteer to collect stones to create a safe passage to remove the stuck car. 📸: Residents volunteer to dig part of the road to remove the stuck car. According to the residents, the wide and long Dregua road measuring 18 Kilometers has been abandoned from been used by both the residents and also visitors who pass via the road, which the residents said, they advise travelers who are visitors, not to use this road because they may get stuck on it because of its im

📸: Some of the residents attending to the final planning meeting for Independence Day Celebration due to take place on Wednesday 9-October-2024. Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 📸: Some of the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency, Maracha District. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. The 8 Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency have on Thursday 3-October-2024 received some facilitation to commemorate the upcoming Independence Day Celebration. 📸: Copy of a letter from one of the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency lobbying for monies to celebrate the Independence day. Following a letter by the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency requesting Politicians and well wishers to donate funds for organizing and celebrating 9-October-2024 Independence Day in the various Sub-counties, Mr Uhuru Nelson, an Aspirant on NRM Party ticket for Maracha Constituency MP seat in 2026 to 2031 adhered to the request of the 8 Sub-counties and donated 200,000 Shs per

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 📸: Tents under which dignitaries, political leaders, clergies and other invited leaders sat under to attend the International Youth Day Celebration of Maracha District, held in in Alikua Sub-county on Friday 27-9-2024. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. Youths in Alikua Sub-county, Maracha east constituency, Maracha District picked placards on Friday 27-9-2024 to demonstrate over the lack of proper accountability by the district youth council leadership. 📸: Some of the protesting Youths. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. The over 40 Youths in number who were both hungry and angry hinted that, if a cow was bought and they slaughtered it, they would have been the one's eating the head because hosting of the event near their trading center forced hotel operators in the area not to cook food on the day of the Youth Day Celebration henceforth leaving them very hungry with no nearby hotel to cheaply eat food as they usually do. 📸: On

Opinion Written by Osuta Yusuf.  28-9-2024. 📸: Courtesy Photo. I would suggest and recommend that, churches, schools and mosques in Uganda need to develop ideas of writing Project Proposals to be submitted to NGOs and Partners to fund them than only relying on local fundraisings which are most times politicized because majority of these fundraisings target politicians as the "assumed" biggest giver. With recent pronouncements by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni advising the Attorney General to draft a legal solution to end fundraisings which have become what he calls, unnecessary pressure which makes politicians to error, what would be the plan "B" of churches, mosques and schools that rely on these for building their infrastructures if government  eventually  blans it❓️. Whereas many preferred and still prefer local fundraisings in form of parties to raise money for construction of their institutions and other structures, the advantages are that, it so

Susan has recently downloaded a very trendy fitness app called FiTrack, which was meant for tracking her workouts and health goals. A few days later, Susan started getting calls from her friends saing they did not appreciate her giving their numbers out to those 'FiTrack' people and updating them on her fitness 'journey'. As far as Susan remembers she never allowed the app to tell anyone about what she was doing or to even access her contact list in the phone. Are apps like FiTrack legally allowed to access and share her private information like that. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? According to the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, of Uganda, an app like FiTrack cannot access or share personal information with any other party without express permission from the owner of that information. It also says that no person or company should collect (obtain) your personal information like your contact list or friends names or send them anything they have not asked for.