Tag Archives: Tororo

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The state of roads in Tororo district is appalling. Tororo district has a road network of 630 kilometres and 8% of these are in a bad state with potholes making them impassable. Some of the roads in a very bad state include the 9.3km …

  Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tribal conflicts threaten the success of the National Resistance Movement –NRM Party primaries in Tororo district, eastern Uganda. The multi-ethnic district is currently has two offices for the NRM party, one for the people of Tororo county, majority of them with Teso lineage …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Districts in Eastern Uganda are operating without ambulances. The ambulances in Mbale, Busia, Tororo and Kapchorwa are grounded over lack of funds for repair while others are beyond repair, forcing medical officials to rely on ambulances donated by well-wishers who include politicians and Non-Governmental …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Floods victims in Tororo district are living under deplorable conditions. The affected people from over 200 households were displaced by floods triggered by heavy rains that pounded Tororo district in March this year and pitched camp at Fungwe primary school where they have spent …

  Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tororo District Local Government has returned sh5.1 billion to the national treasury as unspent funds for the 2019/2020 financial year. The Public Finance Management Act 2015 section 17 (2) stipulates that a local government that does not spend money that was appropriated to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the President has returned sh2.9 billion to the treasury after failing to spend it on activities for which it was allocated. The money is part of an allocation of sh16.8 billion which the office received to facilitate COVID-19 response activities in …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several health facilities involved in offering Anti-Retroviral therapy-ART services in Tororo district are facing a drug stock out. The affected health facilities include among others Mukuju health center IV, Malaba health III, Mulanda health IV, Tororo general hospital, and Nagongera health center IV. Health authorities …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continued lockdown in Tororo district due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a delay in the commissioning of the Tororo central market. According to municipal officials, by March this year, the Contractor Young Jin Construction Inc. Company, a Korean firm had finalized works …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has approved the creation of 15 new counties that will start operation next year. The Minister in charge of information (ICT & National Guidance) Judith Nabakooba said in a statement that Cabinet made the approval at their latest meeting on Monday at State …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Revenue Authority-URA is struggling to stop smuggling at the porous routes of Malaba town council in Tororo and Busia districts. Residents still smuggle Kenya cement, rice, sugar, cartons of wheat flour, salt, white polythene bags, biscuits, sweat cones and PK chewing gums among …