Author: Citizen Editor

Reports have been swirling over the past few days indicating that four time presidential candidate Dr Kiiza Besigye had gone missing for days and no one was aware of his where about. Dr Kiiza Besigye was kidnapped from a hotel in Westlands in Nairobi City where he had gone to attend an even on invitation of Former Deputy Presidential Candidate Martha Karua in Kenya’s capital last Saturday. However, Besigye was last at the Hotel and never returned and unknown people kidnapped him. As questions about his whereabouts continued spilling, it was later revealed that the former FDC stalwart was being…

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A by-election arising from the death of Sarah Mateke who was the Kisoro District women representative and also Museveni’s junior minister for Defense and Veteran affairs took place today in the Southern district of Kisoro with six candidates facing off. Stakes have been high with the NRM district chairperson Dr. Philemon Mateke rallying behind an independent candidate Grace Akifeza Ngabirano and shunning his party’s flag bearer Kabagyeni Rose. The other candidates include NUP’s Zubedi Sultana Salim, FDC’s Musanase Juliet, UPC’s Ingabire Mable and another independent candidate Cyimpaye Aisha. All political heavy weights from UPC, FDC, NUP and NRM were in…

The May 2024 Population & Housing Census established that Uganda currently has 45.9m people. A majority of these (13m) live in Buganda sub region, followed by Busoga (4.4m) and Karamoja has the lowest population size among all the UBOS statistics sub region of Uganda-1.4m. The 45.9m people live in a total of 10,698,913 households whose average size is 4 persons. This is how the number of households is shared out among the statistics sub regions into which UBOS split the country: Buganda has over 3.4m households followed by Busoga with 965,399. Others are Acholi with 466,128; Ankole 842,783; Bukedi 503,727;…

The newly released 2024 census report by UBOS is 380 pages and covers many things including the availability of toilet facilities and the ease with which majority Ugandans can access the same. The report shows that in many parts of Uganda, access to decent toilet facilities remains very constrained, something that exposes many of Uganda’s children to poor sanitation-related vulnerability. It’s revealed in the report that in Karamoja, only 12% of the children live in homes or households which have their own toilet as the rest are left to use open defecation or to rely on shared toilet facilities with…

Housing living conditions in every country are a key indicator of how well citizens, children inclusive, are living. In the case of Uganda, this is a mandatory requirement imposed on the government especially under the Children’s Act, the Constitution and also the Sustainable Development Goals no. 6 and 7. Goal 6 is directly related to the ease with which access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities for all citizens is guaranteed. Goal 7 requires that governments ensure that the same is affordably, reliably and sustainably accessible for especially the children. The 2024 census report shows that Teso sub region has…

The 2024 National Population & Housing Census has revealed that 43 percent of individuals aged 10 years and above (13.6 million persons) in Uganda owned a mobile phone as of May this year (when the census was conducted). The report adds that 56.7% of the population doesn’t have a mobile phone. The population aged 10 years and above is 31.4 million. The 2024 census report reveals that among these mobile phone owners, the 37 percent had one phone, while six percent owned two or more mobile phones. The report of the country’s 11th census further shows that eight percent of…

BY ALEX PITHUA Nebbi district leaders have expressed excitement to the government and partners after completing construction of a multimillion multipurpose water dam project at “Got Tar” in Ossi East parish, Parombo Sub-county. The 10,000 cubic liter Water Dam project at “Got Tar” has been constructed at a tune of shs 314,467,218 million. It has components of animal watering troughs and boreholes respectively. It is one of the projects implemented under Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) purely climate resilient piloting projects which are currently in the districts of Nwoya, Nebbi, Zombo and Kasese. Speaking during the commissioning of the dam…

BY ALEX PITHUA In a significant development for skilling and empowering youth in Zombo district a consortium of local NGOs with support from Coorperaid, a Switzerland based non-governmental organization, is backtracking achievements of a three-year project. The local consortium NGOs include Life Concern (LICO), Nebbi NGO Forum and Community Empowerment for Rural Development (CEFORD) have implemented this project codenamed, “Alochi Kusomo” at a tune of shs 4.2billion. The project aims at ensuring improved academic excellence and retention of learners in schools among others has now supported major renovation of primary schools’ classrooms, building staff houses and classrooms, skilling vulnerable youth who have dropout…

KATAKWI: The Vice President Maj. (Rtd) Jessica Alupo, has expressed her gratitude to Stanbic Bank for its unwavering commitment to driving economic growth and transforming communities across Uganda. She was speaking during an event over the weekend in which the bank donated medical equipment worth UGX35 million to Katakwi General Hospital in Teso sub-region. Alupo said, “The donation is a beacon of hope, enabling the hospital to enhance its care quality and better serve patients and their families.” The items included three patient beds, two delivery beds, two patient monitors, a baby incubator and warmer along with one hundred Mama…