Nwoya district has registered over 60 cases of suicide in the last three year alone, according to local authorities. The latest victim was Irish Kitara Otto, the former Local Council 3 Vice Chairperson of Purongo Sub County in Nwoya district. Otto’s body was found mid last month hanging on a pole, with a rope around […]

Cases of girl victims of the nodding syndrome being defiled have raised deep concerns with local authorities and residents of Burlobo parish in Angagura Sub County, Pader district. During their Task Force visits to affected areas, district officials were shocked to hear vile cases of abuse and defilement from parents, who say that there is […]

Jennifer Apoko 28 was left speechless when her 3 years son, all of a sudden, started crying day and night, in a tone equivalent to that of an adult. He also started wetting himself at anytime of the day and night. Apoko says that she was so scared and thought that her son, Genesis Komakech, […]

Children suffering from the nodding syndrome in Kitgum and Pader districts have been hit by drug shortage for controlling the disease, resulting in the death of one child. Aber Betty, 17, a resident of Tumangu village, Lamit Parish in Akwang Sub County died as a direct result of lack of drugs to control recurrent seizures. […]

  The Minister of Health Christine Ondoa recently downplayed the number of people affected by the nodding disease by “revealing” that the syndrome has so far left 3094 innocent lives victimized and 173 dead.  Ondoa said that the syndrome which is now soaring in places like Lira district and Oyam County, can be handled by […]

The division in opinion about the nodding disease among members of the Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG) continues to injure any meaningful help from reaching the victims. According to the Member of Parliament for Kilak County, Hon Gilbert Olanya, unless a single position is taken by Acholi legislators, victims will continue to die needlessly without any […]