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Minister Hillary Onek says, Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) spends 4 trillion uagndan shillings annually to buy firewood.

📸: Minister Hillaru Onek. Uganda. The Office of the Prime Minister spends 4.019 Trillion shillings on purchasing firewood for refugees according to a revelation by Hillary Onek, the minister for relief and disaster preparedness. The development came up during a parliamentary sitting this week on Thursday noting that the firewood is used by refugees to cook food. It should be noted that in May this year, President Museveni issued Executive Order No 3 which, among others banned the production of and trade in charcoal in Northern Uganda, as part of the efforts to protect the environment. The expenditure on firewood is against a sum of 4.944 Trillion shillings spent annually on refugee response by Uganda. Mr Onek while making such notices before parliament added: “97% refugees (1.3refugees) use firewood each consuming 1.6Kgs per year valued at Shs5000 per day as indicated by research reports of Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP)” In fact, wh

2018 Arua By-election Torture Victim Asara Night Shows Up for 2026 Woman MP Race.

📸: Asara Night bedridden in hospital after 12-August-2018 torture incident. 📸:Asara Night during High Court in Gulu. ARUA . Asara Night a tireless long known  foot solidier politician in Arua city has started parading her superlatives for the position of woman member of Parliament for Arua city for 2026 election. Asara: "Without energized, bold representation our city will continue to be held back from achieving its full potential as regional city, we deserve a better brand of politics than usual  politics and that is why I have seriously declared myself to contest  for  woman seat for Arua city come 2026". The position of member of Parliament for Arua city is a commanding position and with triple divisions, the race will not be a tea party for the contenders,  it will be a titanic battle. Asara said there will be no uphill slog for because she is not a political orphan, she knows where she will be harvesting her votes as she is a

Opinion: Why Ugandans Should Embrace Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba as a Leader - By Justus Aduma, 2026 Maracha East Constituency MP Aspirant.

📸: Youths Display banner of Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, during his trip to Arua City on 22-10-2022. Part 1. Following first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba's visit to Arua City, WestNile region for the launch of MK Project 22-10-2022, lots of opinions ran on my mind after keen observation of events that unfolded within that month. MAMMOTH CROWD. Prior to Gen Muhoozi's announcement of a journey to WestNile region to launch the chapter, there were intensive mobilizations both by people in Youth age bracket and adults. It all started with a meeting by involving majority of the MPs, RDCs, DISOs, DPCs, LC5s, Business Fraternity and different heads of department across districts of WestNile who converged for a strategic planning meeting at Desert Breeze hotel on October 6th 2022. Then later on the wananchi immediately took over with the mobilization strategy. There were all sorts of decoration from printing MK Project T-shirts to other types of decorations which showed

Speak Spy Glossary.

Copied from CIA website. Skip to main content CONTACT REPORT INFORMATION Resources Spy Speak Glossary You might walk the walk, but can you talk the talk? Being a spy is more than just the gadgets and the disguises. To be successful in the field, you need to speak like a spy. So, before you head out on your next mission, or write the next great American spy novel, take some time to familiarize yourself with our Spy Speak glossary. 26 Results Clear Filters Filter All A A-12 OXCART:  a highly secret, now declassified aircraft developed by CIA and Lockheed during the early 1960s as the  U-2  spy plane’s successor. Intended to meet the nation’s need for a very fast, very high-flying reconnaissance aircraft that could avoid Soviet air defenses, the A-12 OXCART could fly Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet altitude. The SR-71 Blackbird was the U.S. Air Force’s two-seat follow-on version of the OXCART. Agent:  a person who spies on their own country; typically a citizen of a foreign country wh

Poor State of Roads Generates Heated Debate in Maracha Parliamentary Forum.

Opinions compiled from Maracha Parliamentary Forum for Development, which is a platform for people of Maracha District. NB: Telephone number of the members has been consealed with *** for security reasons. 2-November-2023. [Nov/2/2023, 11:19 AM] Deba Ivan: This is okokoro town council road and yet it's road which is supposed to be under district [11/2, 11:19 AM] Deba Ivan: Communities are working on it. [11/2, 11:20 AM] Adania Jackline Dranzipi: Terrible. [11/2, 11:22 AM] Deba Ivan: Maracha district have to do something on these roads otherwise people are crying too much. [11/2, 11:22 AM] Adania Jackline: This is a good initiative. We can't always be waiting for our leaders. [11/2, 11:23 AM] Deba Ivan: But communities can't make it. [11/2, 11:24 AM] Deba Ivan: Our leaders have to help the communities good enough we have tractor's. [11/2, 11:24 AM] Deba Ivan: Why can't they use it. [11/2, 11:26 AM] Adania Jackline: They should but