U.N.’s IFAD to lend Uganda up to $80 mln for farming
IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze KAMPALA, May 8 (Reuters) – The United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will lend Uganda up to $80 million between 2013 and 2015 at low interest More...
Crocodile chews man’s buttocks
Man eater. File Photo A 25-year-old fisherman at Musoli landing site located in Mutumba Sub County in the eastern district of Namayingo was rushed to hospital in critical condition after a crocodile chewed off his More...
Two bodies of drowned traders found in L. Victoria
Some of the Marine Police officers at Muwama landing site. After a thorough search mounted on Lake Victoria for the 13 bodies of traders who drowned in the lake last week, two of them were retrieved on Wednesday. The More...
Sumatra issues Lake Victoria rock warning
Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra) has cautioned ship and boat operators to avoid passing through a hard rock at Chelomeno Lower water area in Lake Victoria to avert recurrent of More...
Police confirms 13 deaths in Lake Victoria boat accident
The police have confirmed that 13 people died after a boat they were travelling in capsized on Lake Victoria. Buikwe District Police Commander Aggrey Mugoya, who had earlier estimated the number to be 60, said police More...
Uganda Minister decries politics in water protection
Minister Ruth Nankabirwa Political interference into the implementation of a new law in the fisheries sector is undermining the protection of Uganda’s water bodies, a minister has said. The State Minister for More...
Boat capsizes on Lake Victoria, 60 feared dead
60 feared dead as an overloaded boat capsizes /AFP Around 60 people were aboard a boat that capsized on Lake Victoria, according to the sole survivor found so far, a regional police spokesman said on Saturday. “The More...
Kagera reduces HIV/AIDS infections
Kagera Regional Commissioner, Fabian Massawe Kagera region has managed to reduce HIV infection rates from 17 to 3.7 per cent, a landmark achievement which is encouraging, Kagera Regional Commissioner Fabian Massawe More...
Pirates threaten deep sea fishing
Minister for Livestock Development David Mathayo Tanzania will suffer a loss of more than 4 million US dollars (about 6.4bn/-) this financial year, after 50 foreign fishing firms terminated their contracts with More...
Water hyacinth spreads in Lake Victoria again
Water hyacinth, the weed which once choked Africa’s greatest lake waters, threatening the lives of other organisms and cutting fish production is back again. Lake Victoria water hyacinths Speaking here yesterday, More...
