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Mar 11, 2009
<b>Animals vaccinated</b><br>MOROTO - About 60,000 animals, mainly sheep and goats, have been vaccinated against the Pest des Petites Ruminants disease.
Animals vaccinated
MOROTO - About 60,000 animals, mainly sheep and goats, have been vaccinated against the Pest des Petites Ruminants disease. The programme’s manager, Dr. John Baptist Lokki, said hundreds of goats and sheep in Karamoja have died of the highly contagious disease suspected to have spread from Kenya. PPR mainly attacks small ruminants. It is characterised by depression, fever, discharges from the eyes and nose and sores in the mouth. Other symptoms are disturbed breathing, cough and foul-smelling diarrhoea.
Alupo tells Acholi to unite
GULU - Youth state minister Jessica Alupo has urged the Acholi to unite and rebuild the area, which has been affected by the 22-year Lord’s Resistance Army war. Alupo said the major problems included land wrangles, political differences, poverty and poor implementation of development programmes. She was speaking at the burial of Elizabeth Nyega-Apolo. Nyega-Apolo was the mother of the Ugandan ambassador to Sudan, Betty Akech.
EU donates sh50b
GULU - The European Union (EU) has donated 20m Euros (about sh50b) for the setting up of an agricultural livelihood programme for northern Uganda. EU ambassador Vincent de Visscher disclosed the information during the commissioning of the Office of the Prime Minister in Gulu recently.
MOROTO - About 60,000 animals, mainly sheep and goats, have been vaccinated against the Pest des Petites Ruminants disease. The programme’s manager, Dr. John Baptist Lokki, said hundreds of goats and sheep in Karamoja have died of the highly contagious disease suspected to have spread from Kenya. PPR mainly attacks small ruminants. It is characterised by depression, fever, discharges from the eyes and nose and sores in the mouth. Other symptoms are disturbed breathing, cough and foul-smelling diarrhoea.
Alupo tells Acholi to unite
GULU - Youth state minister Jessica Alupo has urged the Acholi to unite and rebuild the area, which has been affected by the 22-year Lord’s Resistance Army war. Alupo said the major problems included land wrangles, political differences, poverty and poor implementation of development programmes. She was speaking at the burial of Elizabeth Nyega-Apolo. Nyega-Apolo was the mother of the Ugandan ambassador to Sudan, Betty Akech.
EU donates sh50b
GULU - The European Union (EU) has donated 20m Euros (about sh50b) for the setting up of an agricultural livelihood programme for northern Uganda. EU ambassador Vincent de Visscher disclosed the information during the commissioning of the Office of the Prime Minister in Gulu recently.