According to officials, the repatriation was facilitated through cooperation between the governments of Uganda and South Sudan. Maj Gen Otto worked alongside Uganda’s Ambassador to South Sudan, Brig Gen Ronnie Balya, to secure the return of the former abductees, while South Sudanese authorities provided support throughout the operation.

During the event, the Parliamentary Malaria Walk was officially activated, turning the football pitch into a platform for awareness. The message was simple and direct: malaria is preventable, and it can be beaten.

“Gender-Based Violence is not coming by itself. There is a root cause of it, and the first that we can clearly see and we have experienced in our families and communities is poverty.”

Women are often married to men who are heavy drinkers and lose family plantations that generate income for essential needs, such as school fees for their children, at the cost of their drunk husbands.

The practice in Karamoja, where some families still demand 100 heads of cattle as the bride price, creates an avenue for the women to be treated like property in marriages.

“Men in Kamwenge should allow their women to hold responsibility in their families; they should stop selling food out of their women's houses and should be sensitized,"

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The State Minister for Youth and Children Affairs, Dr. Balaam Barugahara Ateenyi, has commended parents for sparing some time...