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Kabale District holds a budget consultative meeting for 2024/25FY.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 07/011/2023 The Kabale District Chairperson, Nelson Nshangabasheija, has observed that the district will prioritize Infrastructure development in terms of roads, human capital development under Education and Health sectors, water and sanitation and Agro-industrialization in the 2024/25 Fiscal year. Nshangabasheija made the observation today, while speaking during the district budget consultative meeting for the financial year 2024/25. The meeting was held under the theme; “Full monetization of Uganda’s Economy through Commercial, Agriculture, Industrialization, Expanding and Broadening Services, Digital Transformation...

November 7, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Chairman Nshangabasheija awards villages for being free of Open defecation.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale     The Assistant Kabale District Health Officer, Oliver Namanya, has warned residents against open defecation saying that they risk contracting sanitation-related diseases.   Namanya was on Tuesday, speaking at Kigogo Village in Buhara Sub County of Kabale district, where the villages of Kigogo and Bugarama all in Buhara Sub County and Kahama Village in Kitumba Sub County, were awarded with certificates for achieving open deification free (ODF). The certificates were awarded by Kabale District in partnership with Wells of Life,...

October 25, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Distribution of Mosquito nets for Kabale District to start on Friday 20th October.

By Alex Byakatonda     Communications officer-Kabale.   Kabale District is are this week set to run a two-day mass distribution of Insecticide treated mosquito nets to all households in the district. The district recently received 160720 nets from National Medical stores as part of the countrywide distribution program of aimed at curbing down cases of malaria.   Now, the Kabale District Health Educator, Alfred Besigensi, the mosquito nets, which are already of stores at the parishes, are to be distributed to beneficiaries on Friday and Saturday...

October 17, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Murungu Primary school in Rubaya Sub county to be refurbished in the 2024/25 FY.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale     Kabale District councillors, have expressed concern on inadequate and poor state of structures at s at Murungu public primary school in Rubaya Sub County.   Murungu Public Primary school is a government aided school which was started by parents in the early 1980s before it was taken up by the government. The school, which has an enrollment of 235 pupils, has five classes. During the visit to the school by the District’s council committee on Education and sports, councilors...

September 22, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District secures 400m Shillings to work on Maziba Health Centre IV.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale   Kabale District council has approved a supplementary budget of 400million shillings for infrastructure development at Maziba Health Center IV in Ndorwa East.   Presenting a motion for the approval of a supplementary budget before the District council that was presided over the Deputy Speaker, Ronald Mugisha Ian, this week, the Secretary for Health, Education and sports and Community based services, Hillary Byamukama said that the money was secured from the ministry of Health, adding that the project will commence...

September 22, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Rwandan National arrested in Kabale for operating an illegal soft drink factory.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale   Authorities in Kabale District have arrested a Rwandan National for allegedly operating an illegal Soft Drink factory, disregarding sanitation and hygiene guidelines and forging Uganda National Bureau of Standards stamp. The suspect who was identified as, Jaan De dieu Mbonimpa, a resident of Nyagatare district in the North East of Rwanda, was found producing a soft drink called “Marishari” in Kyanamira parish, Kyanamira sub county of Kabale District   The Kabale Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Godfrey Nyakahuma, said the...

September 7, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Micro-scale Irrigation can be an Agriculture Game changer in Kabale District.

BY Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 28/07/2023. The Kabale District Principal Agriculture officer, Deus Baguma Bagambana, has urged farmers in the district to adapt new types of irrigation, saying that world over, irrigation can be an agriculture game changer, because of climatic changes. Baguma on Thursday addressing over 300 farmers from across the district, after two days of farmer visits to irrigation demonstration farms in Kahondo parish of Maziba Sub county and Buhara sub counties respectively. The demonstration farm, are part of the farms that...

July 28, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Entomology department gives beekeeping equipment to Apiary farmers.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications officer-Kabale 12/07/2023.   Kabale District local Government under the entomology department has donated beekeeping equipment to Apiary farmers worth millions of shillings.   According to the Senior Entomologist for Kabale District, Honest Tumuheirwe, the equipment includes, 95 Kenya top beehives, 10 overalls and 28 buckets among others, valued at 11,450,000 million shillings. Tumuheirwe, explains that the equipment was given to 10 selected apiary farmers, as demonstration on the use of these Kenya top beehives in Kabale District.   Speaking during the handover of the...

July 12, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale District Launches Mass Yellow-fever vaccination Campaign.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications Officer-Kabale 05/06/2023. Kabale District has today launched the mass Yellow-Fever vaccination campaign, targeting people aged between 9mounths to 60 years. According to the Ministry of Health, the 5-day yellow fever vaccination campaign is expected to run from 9th to 13th June, 2023. The Kabale District Health Officer, Dr Gilbert Arineitwe Mateeka, says that a team of five people has been deployed at each of 105 vaccination centers in the District. He adds that the District is targeting to vaccinate a...

June 5, 20230 CommentsRead more...

Kabale councilors recommend for the acquisition of more land to protect Kyabakonjo Gravity Scheme.

By Alex Byakatonda   Communications Officer-Kabale 01/06/2023 Kabale District councilors sitting on the Production, Marketing Trade and Natural Resources committee, have recommended that the district needs to procure more land around the source of Kyabakonjo Gravity flow scheme to help in protecting the source from land slides. The councillors, made the observation on Wednesday during a monitoring visit to gravity flow scheme. The gravity water flow scheme, which located in Buhara Sub county, is being renovated by Andywc Contractors and Suppliers Ltd at a...

June 1, 20230 CommentsRead more...