The National Environmental Management Authority-NEMA has put in place a 5-year plan for tree planting in the Bugisu Sub-region. The tree planting project will help control the soil erosion and landslides, that have become a major threat to the people in the Bugisu region. The project comes at a time when the Bugisu sub-region is ...

Mbale City Police are investigating circumstances under which a man was shot twice and robbed of sh50 million in broad daylight. The victim, David Ongom, a 42-year-old accounts clerk at Lumolo Trading Company, was on his way to deposit the money at Dfcu Bank’s Mbale branch when the robbery took place on Monday. Ongom had ...

As a way to combat disasters in Bugisu region, National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has put in place a 5 year plan of tree planting at all slopes of Mount Elgon. The Bugisu region has become famous for being prone to landslides every year when it rain. This was revealed by the executive director of ...

Right from his childhood days in Mbale in eastern Uganda, Micheal Osings aka Lanie Banks, always involved himself in karaoke, dancing scripts and song writing. Even when he moved to Canada, he joined the church choir headed by Pastor Bill Binaster from the Toronto Christian Outreach Programme. The Canadian-Ugandan Rapper, songwriter and music video director ...

Mbale City is set to host the Elgon Tourism Expo and Business Forum. Racheal Kakungulu Kirama, President of the Elgon Tourism Expo and Business Forum, explained that this year’s event, taking place from Friday, December 13 to Saturday, December 14, 2024, at Mbale Cricket Grounds, will focus on attracting more exhibitors within the tourism value ...

Mbale City authorities have started repairing non-functional solar street lights. Close to 100 solar street lights installed within the city under the World Bank-funded Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development program have been non-functional for nearly five years. Most of the components of the solar street light broke down months after their installation due to ...

Access to Mount Elgon National Park via the Mbale-Bubyangu route is now impossible after the collapse of Malenda Bridge on Sunday. The bridge, located in Bubyangu Sub County, was washed away following heavy rainfall that has affected the region over the past two weeks. The destruction of the bridge and the associated Imamu Husain Kilayi ...

The Acting Education Officer Linus Nasimiyu has been interdicted. Nasimiyu was interdicted by the Town Clerk Ambrose Ochen over allegations of misusing a government vehicle. James Kutosi the Mbale City Public Relations Officer confirmed the Interdiction saying that Nasimiyu is under Interdiction as investigations goes on. He says that once investigations are over Nasimiyu will ...

Security has banned the traditional Imbalu dance popularly known as Kadodi in Mbale City. Asumin Nasike, the Mbale City Commissioner, announced the ban on Thursday. She said the ban stemmed from the increased number of crimes committed by the Kadodi dancers. She cited an incident in which Kadodi dancers stole a mobile phone and 300, ...

Traffic along Manafwa- Bududa circular roads was this afternoon, Thursday, November 28, 2024 paralyzed after taxi drivers and boda boda riders from both districts closed the road in protest. The road has been closed at Buwangani Town Council located in Manafwa district neighboring Bududa district where a big wide four feet deep trench was dug ...