DanChurchAid: Uganda

Next we will be displaced by a famine

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:21:00 GMT

George William Odeke is a local councilperson in the flooded village of Adurukoi in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. �I don�t know what will happen next year because the food is just finished. If the rain continues, we will undoubtedly need food relief,� said Mr.
Odeke.

Worst flooding in any recent memory

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:36:35 GMT

Recent heavy rains have caused extensive flooding and damage throughout much of west, central and east Africa. The floods have destroyed homes, farmland and local infrastructure, while displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

88% in Karamoja illiterate

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:47:11 GMT

Research in literacy levels in Karamoja region using population projections and visits at every Manyatta reveals that eighty eight percent of the people in the region cannot read and write the Moroto district Education Officer, Mr. Paul Abul has said.

Video: Visit Karamoja in Uganda

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:02:27 GMT

Watch how the Ugandan NGO KADP works with drought preparedness in Karamoja and how they help improve the quality of life for the Karamojongs, who are among the poorest groups in Uganda.

Milk goats

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:37:30 GMT

A milk goat project funded by the DanChurchAid, a Danish Charity Organisation for women groups in the districts of Moroto and Nakapiripirit has improved the quality of life in more than 100 families.

Karamoja could drop pastoralism for Agriculture

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:00:31 GMT

One thing you notice on returning to Karamoja after a year or so is that someone has splendidly done well out of selling agriculrural products, sorghum, millet, beans, Sim sim rice and potatoes.

Cattle rustling spreading cattle diseases in Karamoja

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:57:03 GMT

Authorities in Moroto district have blamed the outbreak of infectious livestock diseases in the entire Karamoja region on cattle rustling across the borders to Kenya.

Strange livestock disease breaks out in Moroto

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:54:44 GMT

An infectious livestock disease has broken out in the district of Moroto and other parts Nakapiripiriti districts killing hundreds of animals, the Livestock development assistant, Mr. Simon Peter Louse has said.

Karamoja seeks to mend relations with Kenya Turkana, Pokot

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:52:50 GMT

Local leadership in Karamoja region are seeking plans to end the long running cattle rustling battles with their neighbours, the Pokot and Turkana of Kenya.

8 killed, 318 livestock raided in June

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:50:32 GMT

Despite the intensity of the ongoing disarmament exercise in Karamoja region through cordon and search method, 8 people have been killed and 318 livestock have been raided in Moroto district in the month of June alone.