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	District Information Portal :: Soroti District
		Soroti borders Kamuli, Lake Kyoga, Kumi and Pallisa in the south, Kaberamaido in the west and Katakwi in the northeast.
		Soroti district has a population of about 325,522 of which 156,839 are males and 166,683 are female.
		Soroti is one of the leading suppliers of sweet potatoes to markets in Kampala, Jinja, Mbale and other urban areas in the country.
	www.soroti.go.ug (593 words)

	Soroti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soroti is the main commercial and administrative centre of Soroti District in Uganda, lying near Lake Kyoga.
		It is known for the rock formation near the town as well as a variety of Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Sikh gurdwaras as well as several churches that meet in various buildings in the town varying from the drab Anglican cathedrals to small Pentecostal congregations in school classrooms.
		Soroti Airport was originally built as a training school for the British Overseas Airways Corporation to train their pilots in tropical flying techniques.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soroti (446 words)

	Soroti District :: Background Information
		Soroti district mainly comprises of Iteso and Kumam who speak Ateso and Kumam respectively and are Nile-Hamites.
		A number of trading centres in Soroti district are connected to the national grid.
		The climate of the district is modified by the large swampy area surrounding it.
	www.soroti.go.ug /background/index.htm (790 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Most of abducted schoolgirls found
		Soroti Resident District Commissioner Edward Masiga told AFP that "the girls looked tired when they were found and we did not want to ask them so many questions until they recovered from their ordeal."
		District council chairman John Otekat said rebels had on Wednesday morning ambushed a vehicle heading for Soroti from Katakwi district and wounded five occupants.
		The children, from the northern Ugandan districts of Pader and Lira, were abducted by the LRA and had made to help them carry their loads, they said.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/248191.htm (488 words)

	Social Finance Unit: Microfinance in Post-Conflict Countries: The Case Study for Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Borders with the districts of Bundibugyo in the West, Kasese and Mbarara in the South, Hoima and Kibaale in the North and Mubende in the east.
		Borders with the districts of Kabarole in the north, Lakes George and Edward in the South and the DRC in the west.
		Is part of the former "Luwero Triangle" bordering with the districts of Masindi in the north east, Kiboga in the west, Mukono and Mpigi in the south and Lake Kyoga in the north with an area coverage of 9,198 sq kms.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/finance/papers/uganda.htm (14248 words)

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		In Soroti and Kaberamaido Districts, the percentage of the population living within 5 km radius from a health unit is 19.1%, far below the national average of 49% (MOH, Health Facility Inventory, 1993) The doctor to population ratio is 1:22,000, midwife to population ration is 1:8,545 and nurse to population ration is 1:7,705.
		Soroti District is bordered by the districts of Kaberamaido and Lira to the west, Kumi to the east, Katakwi to the north, and Kamuli and Pallisa to the south.
		Apac District lies north of Lake Kyoga and borders the districts of Masindi in the west, Lira in the east, and Gulu in the north.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/03/09/000012009_20040309150841/Rendered/INDEX/E8330vol13101paper.txt (12054 words)

	Soroti 2003
		The proposal was warmly received by the Soroti Scout Association and a tentative agreement made to host a contingent from the UK in August 2003.
		There are 14 participants in the Soroti contingent, made up of Explorer Scouts, Network Scouts and Leaders from the counties of East Sussex and Surrey.
		Soroti is a town situated 180 miles North East of the Ugandan Capital city Kampala.
	www.angelfire.com /ut2/soroti/p4soroti03.html (564 words)

	Zarina achieves Micro-Success in spite of a childhood interrupted by war
		Born to northern Uganda's troubled Soroti District of the 1970s, Zarina blames "Museveni's War" for robbing her of a high school education.
		Soroti, but her last memory of education is climbing out the back window of a classroom, as fighting came closer.
		Childhood in Soroti and the neighboring District of Gulu is still under siege.
	lifeinafrica.com /1/zarina/1/childhood.htm (811 words)

	Uganda NICS Articles
		In Kitgum district, acute malnutrition rates ranged between 7.4% and 18.3% depending on the camp, while the prevalence of acute malnutrition was between 4.4% and 12.2% in IDP camps in Kitgum district (WFP, 07/04).
		In Soroti district, eastern Uganda, the situation seems to have improved slightly, the number of children admitted to the TFC dropped from 430 at the peak of the crisis to 20 as of February 2004 (OCHA, 29/02/04).
		District authorities also report that households are able to access their land and grow crops, which is having a beneficial effect on household food stocks and the general food security of the area.
	www.unsystem.org /scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/uganda_all.htm (19961 words)

	AIM Uganda: Building Communities and Services: Soroti Laboratory
		A decade ago, for example, only one lab in the Soroti district of eastern Uganda had the capacity to test for the presence of the AIDS virus using rapid serological tests.
		As in most of Uganda, the district's population of 400,000 consists predominantly of subsistence farmers who live in remote villages and lack transportation except on foot or, at best, by bicycle.
		Soroti Hospital laboratory, like some other labs in the country, was a recipient of the AIM laboratory capacity strengthening package.
	www.jsi.com /JSIInternet/FeatureStories/AIM/Stories/soroti.cfm (561 words)

	District Information Portal :: Kaberamaido District
		Kaberamaido is one of the new districts in Uganda formed by an act of parliament in July 2001.
		However, Kaberamaido district is one of the districts with the fast growing population in the country.
		The district is among the largest producer of cassava, sorghum, millet, potatoes, maize, Rice, simsim, beans citrus and groundnuts.
	www.kaberamaido.go.ug (413 words)

	FEWS NET Printing
		A WFP June 2003 assessment of Katakwi District (the assessment was not completed due to LRA incursions into the district) revealed that between 40 to 50 percent of the population in the camps have limited or no assets and are only able to meet 70 percent of their daily recommended consumption needs.
		However, district officials are worried that the early onset of dry conditions in June may end up reducing banana productivity and reproduction and will cause early ripening of the crop in the coming months, especially if the second rains do not begin on time in August when they are expected.
		District officials, UN agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) estimate that only a small proportion of the population in the three districts has been able to access cultivable land and that no significant harvests are expected, increasing future requirements for food assistance.
	www.fews.net /printing/print.aspx?docID=m1000969&f=ug (2477 words)

	District Information Portal :: Katakwi District
		Katakwi district, which is located in north-eastern Uganda, regained its district status in 1997 through an Act of Parliament.
		Katakwi borders Moroto in the east and north, Lira in the northwest, Soroti in the southwest and Kumi in the south.
		The district has a population of 300,012 out of which 145,081 (48.4 percent) are male and 154,931 (51.6 percent) are female.
	www.katakwi.go.ug (558 words)

	FEWS NET Printing
		Risky food security is reported in some areas of districts to the east of Lake Kyoga, and northern and northeastern Uganda due to low stocks and or civil insecurity that restricts populations’ access to fields to harvest.
		An assessment to ascertain the extent of the problem and verify food condition in the districts with a view to deriving consensus and informing policy is planned in Katakwi, Kumi, Pallisa, Soroti, and Tororo Districts between September 16-21, with a later assessment of Kotido, Moroto, and Nakapiripirit planned for October as security permits.
		In Mbarara District, dry conditions there since mid-2002 reduced water and vegetation availability, causing many pastoralists to move their livestock into Lake Mburo National Park, with permission of the park authorities, where they are able to access water and pastures.
	www.fews.net /printing/print.aspx?docID=m1000708&f=ug (3275 words)

	kumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The diocese of kumi wa curved from the mother diocese of Soroti which consisted pf four districrs that is Soroti, Kaberemaido and Katakwi.
		Kumi happens to be in between Mbale and Soroti district ont eh Eastern region of the province of the church of Uganda.
		Politically, the district is sensitized and has all politically organs as consisted in anyone district the country.
	www.coupdr.co.ug /kumi.htm (332 words)

	Uganda Scouts Association - Contacts - Scouts Shop
		Their District colours are white and purple as is their District scarf, which is why the background of the badge and lettering is white on purple.
		Soroti is the regional town on the eastern side of Uganda bordering Mount Elgon and Kenya.
		Soroti was the First region to take part in this project when 3,000 saplings provided by Shell were planted in the year 2000 as part of the Uganda 2000 Programme.
	www.scouts.or.ug /contacts-shop-badges.html (675 words)

	Soroti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Soroti is the chief town of the Soroti District of Uganda, lying near Lake Kyoga.
		Soroti Airport is the training base for the Soroti Flying School.
		He said the situation in Soroti district was tense and that many...
	ediamin.mienedi.com /soroti (768 words)

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		Activities are determined within the district health team and the communities as part of the district development and health plans.
		Recently Completed Projects: Mukono District Health Services Project This project, aimed at assisting in the development of an integrated health service based on PHC principles in Mukono district, was signed in 1989 and implementation began in early 1990.
		Activities included the building of an office for the district health and project team, development of a community based health care system, the continuing education of health workers, and the community-based renovation of health units.
	members.inode.at /a.petter/downloads/amref-in-uganda.doc (1610 words)

	Kalangala District travel information
		The district is bordered by; Lira in the west, Katakwi district in the north- east, Soroti to east and shares part of the water of Lake Kyoga to the south.
		Kaberamaido district is one of the districts with the fast growing population in the country.
		Although the district has not yet been connected with to the national grid, there are many plans set to improve the sector.
	www.aboutuganda.com /districts/kaberamaido.php (839 words)

	National Resistance Movement Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chairman has called on the people of Teso sub-region to ignore lies being peddled by the opposition FDC leaders who have not only done nothing for the country but whose sole desire is to reap from where they have not sown.
		Chairman who expressed happiness to be in Teso when the peace he had promised the people of the area in August 2003 was now prevailing, said the opposition MPs in Teso like Alice Alaso and Elijah Okupa, whom he described as a pathological liars, were telling people that government wanted to sell land of wananchi.
		On his way to Soroti Municipality from Kamod Primary School in Kasilo county, candidate Museveni made stop overs at Serere township and Ocaapa-brooks corners where he acknowledged greetings from thousands of his supporters.
	www.nrm.ug /n46.php (921 words)

	CRWRC - Uganda
		Soroti MDO serves rural families of the Iteso tribe living in Soroti district and parts of Kaberamaido and Katakwi districts.
		The Soroti MDO was established in 1993 to deal with the aftereffects of the Teso insurgency, which badly affected the region.
		Parts of Soroti district were also hard hit by the LRA rebels in 2003 resulting in temporary displacement and subsequent post traumatic stress for thousands of families.
	www.crwrc.org /development/esamt/uganda.html (2701 words)

	UK Uganda Network - Uganda 2000 - Project in Soroti
		Soroti is a town situated North West of the capital city, Kampala.
		If nothing else it served as a warning to the Soroti scouts that when they came to build on their land they should take advice and it was at that time I decided to put them in contact with the Avonja people.
		The Soroti leaders have the onerous task of deciding who is to represent Soroti at the Jamboree and so they got into a huddle under a tree and stayed there for hours.
	www.ugandanetwork.org.uk /uganda2k/2ksoro_pro.htm (4696 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The UK leader tore a piece of paper from his notebook and copied the rough drawing from the one drawn in the dust.
		Soroti was the first region to take part in this project when 3,000 saplings provided by Shell were planted in the year 2000.
		The sale of these badges in the UK have enabled us to not only send 500 to Soroti but there is also enough money to buy more when needed.
	www.ugandanetwork.org.uk /ugandaexpeditions/badge.htm (310 words)

	25 Years After The Killing... They Never Found The Body, They Never Buried Him
		SOROTI - Aloysius Gonzaga Okurut, 9, is named after a grandfather he never got to see.
		Last Saturday, after a punishing journey, a dusty night drive deep inside Kumi district, several film rolls down and a harvest of notes from the long day, photojournalist Henry Bongyereirwe and I pulled into a serene and surprisingly well-lit Soroti town at 10:00 p.m.
		On one of her daily visits to Soroti Prison, Evangelina was told Gonzaga was no longer there.
	www.charlesobbo.com /article359.html (981 words)

	SudanTribune article : Epidemic of sleeping sickness spreading in Uganda: study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 2000, the authorities in Soroti district, southern Uganda, launched a control programme, dosing cattle with long-acting drugs to kill the parasite, after tests showed that as much as 18 percent of local herds were carrying the parasite.
		But the latest study, based on blood tests carried out in the area in April 2004, shows that the main parasite strain is present in 22 percent of local cattle — and similar infection rates occur among cattle in three villages just outside the intervention area.
		Fevre blames livestock movements, abetted by instability in southern Uganda, as the cause for the failure in Soroti.
	www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=11281 (362 words)

	AEGiS-NV: HIV/Aids Afflict Kumi District
		A Big percentage of people in Kumi district are suspected to be living with HIV/AIDS, according to the Kumi Aids Support Organisation (KASO) report, writes Williams Moi.
		Meanwhile, Kenneth Otim reports that Soroti district and the municipal council are to receive sh200m and 90m from the Uganda Mayors Initiative to fight HIV/AIDS and the Uganda Aids control programme.
		Soroti mayor George Michael Egunyu and the district director of health services, Dr. Nicholas Okwana, said this at the Soroti Lukiiko hall.
	www.aegis.com /news/nv/2002/NV020905.html (443 words)

	Latest News - Millennium Campaign
		Soroti district, one of the poorer regions of Uganda, had been unable to host the June 16 Day of the African Child activates. The district officials had requested civil society local organizers to allow them partly sponsor the function.
		Soroti district is among those districts in Uganda where armed conflict and cattle-rustling have reigned havoc.
		Although largely peaceful now, parts of the district and the surrounding areas are sometimes attacked by cattle rustlers from neighbouring Karamoja, a tribe of people who believe that all cattle belong to them.
	www.millenniumcampaign.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=175513&content_id={840A040A-A8B6-4547-BADD-3031CFFD5F68}¬oc=1 (935 words)

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