Author: Federick Dramadri

Obongi district has reported two confirmed cases of Meningitis disease among the south Sudanese refugees in Palorinya settlement. The confirmed are all minors one of whom is said to be five years old and the other below five years. Both patients are in a stable condition and Isolated in Belameling Health centre two in Palorinya settlement, Obongi district. Christopher Dradiku, the Regional Integrated Disease Surveillance focal person who works at the Public Health Emergency Information Centre at Arua Regional Referral Hospital, confirmed the cases, noting that more samples are being monitored. “Health workers are being dispatched to take more samples,…

Arua city councilors are up in arms with the city’s entrusted top officials over the alleged giveaway of council land to a private developer without their approval. The land in question is located along upper Odaa close in Anyafio West Cell, Mvara ward, Central Division in Arua city. It is estimated to be 0.925 acres a section of which is partly covered by swamp. It was reportedly parceled out to Jamal Osthman, the proprietor of 2ambe Company limited, who comes to be a private developer for unknown development. A letter authored by Cornelius Jobile the deputy Arua city clerk On…

To-date Abdullatif Juma Atiku, the local council chairman of Oli B cell in Arua city has not forgotten the incident in which his house got burnt in December 2021. The source of the fire was said to be activities of children vending petrol smuggled from neighboring countries of Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Those boys who call themselves opec, they used to sell fuel on my veranda. I could chase them but the moment they don’t see me around they come back to sell the petrol in jerry cans. Unfortunately, one of them was an active smoker of…

Terego district local government has launched three projects worth sh7.2b under Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP). The projects under the Office of the Prime Minister are being funded by the World Bank. They include the construction of a sh3.096b administration block comprising of office spaces and a council hall undertaken by Development Infrastructure and a sh537m modern Medical Store within which office spaces will be fitted for the Health staff by Jamo Company Limited in Ngala’bia cell at the district headquarters. The district will also benefit from the design and build project of 20 metre double span of…

A stench that engulfs Arua City abattoir is worth Sh250m and five years old. The public slaughter house that should have long been replaced with a new modern one continues to labour with service despite in sorry state years after funding was allocated to kick-start construction of a new one. Investigations by The Albertine Journal reveal that the rot and stench from the abattoir have a lot more to do with the stinking corruption that has carried on from the Municipal Council that Arua town was to its present city status. In the 2016/27 financial year, Arua Municipal Council approved…