Norah Owaraga

For good health your lifestyle determines food that you eat

The type and quantity of food that is good for Mukebezi, a smallholder farmer in Pallisa in Uganda, who weeds her farm, garden if you will, using a handheld hoe may be different from that of Alinga, a corporate executive from Pallisa who earns her livelihood seated behind her desk most of the day doing…

Police in Pallisa force gender-based violence victims to settle out of court

It was not proper for her to push the complainant (Alinga) and the suspect to have the matter amicably settled … The D/ASP should be cautioned to desist from settling criminal matters at Police.” Uganda Police Professional Standards Unit The Uganda Police Professional Standards Unit concluded following its investigation of Alinga’s complaint against the D/ASP…

Mutwe insinuation of tribalism in job appointments for Kalyegiras misleading

Case in point, I do not think that Keith Kalyegira being appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) in 2013 is necessarily an example of negative tribalism. In other words, I do not think that he was appointed in the position solely because he is of the Batooro. I am confident…

The ‘double lives’ of Iteso Christians often manifest at ‘modern funerals’ in Teso

And so it was that on Sunday, 3rd September 2023, our papa Omio Stephen, who died on 30th August 2023, was laid down his final resting place at his chosen spot at his home in Kadoki Village in Pallisa District. Papa Omio was the last surviving son of my paternal grandfather, the late Ejakait Yosea…