As it happened: Uganda Today - Thursday January 24

Jan 24, 2019

Uganda and Egypt sign a memorandum of understanding on an intervention expected to protect and reduce the malaria burden among vulnerable groups.

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4:00pm

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  That's a wrap!


This is the last post for today here.

Till tomorrow. God bless.

 

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3:54pm

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  Premier League: Holders Vipers face URA


Defending champions Vipers SC return to Uganda Premier League action on Friday against URA FC.

Due to recent continental engagements, Vipers were not able to keep pace with their Premier League timetable. As such, they have found themselves lagging - and are seven points adrift of leaders KCCA FC.

So far, all but three teams have played all their 15 first round matches. Vipers, who are second on the log, have played 13, with Friday's matchup against fifth-placed URA their 14th game.

The Kitende-based side's last game of the first round will be against Mbarara City FC, who are third on the table.

 

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3:40pm

'We are losing the race' on climate change

AFP:


The world is "losing the race" against climate change, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Thursday at the elite Davos forum, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest catastrophic warming.

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We are losing the race," he said on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, which has featured much hand-wringing on the crisis this week.

"It is absolutely central to reverse this trend."

 

Following a UN summit last month in Poland, which was designed to advance the Paris climate accord, Guterres said he was "not hopeful" that nations would find the necessary resolve.

But he stressed: "We need political will and we need governments who understand that this is the most important priority of our times."

 

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3:20pm

RAS TOON

Armed gangs wielding pangas are forcefully circumcising young girls in Kween district under the watch of everybody.

 

 

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3:15pm

RAS TOON

A health ministry survey has reavealed that 32.1% of female health workers have experienced sexual harassment at work.

 

 

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3:00pm

 FIGHTING MALARIA


Protecting vulnerable groups.

 

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2:55pm

 FIGHTING MALARIA


The Ugandan government, through the ministry of health, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Egyptian government on a larval course management programme to help in the fight against malaria.

The programme will run in the northern and western regions this year and in 2020 to protect over 15 million Ugandans.

Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng signed the agreement.

The intervention is expected to protect and reduce the malaria burden among vulnerable groups, especially pregnant women babies and school going children

 

 

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2:40pm

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   WATCH: The 144th session of WHO executive board


 

 

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2:35pm

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  IGAD-EU peer-to-peer workshop


During the IGAD-EU peer-to-peer workshop at Kampala Sheraton Hotel on Thursday, Prof. Herbert Samuel Baligidde (right) was pictured interacting with youth representatives, Audrey Adhiambo from Kenya (centre) and South Sudan's Nyianjur Aguek.

 

 

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2:15pm

BACK HERE

Everything that has a beginning . . .

. . . has an end.

So did my lunch break. Let's get rolling.

 

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1:00pm

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  LUNCH BREAK


Time for me to re-fill.

Will be back later.

Bon appettit!

 

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12:57pm

WOMEN MURDERS: Key suspect has no case to answer, freed

Ivan Katongole, the key suspect in the killing of women in Entebbe and Nansana areas of Wakiso district, has been freed after the High Court in Kampala ruled Thursday that he has no case to answer.

Justice Wilson Kwesigwa freed Katongole and two co-accused, saying there was no evidence to link them to the murders.

"The Police witnesses only proved that there was death, but they did not link the suspects to the death," he ruled, drawing huge celebrations from Katongole's supporters inside the courtroom.

In a real-life series that caught the attention of the nation, The victims, who were more than 20, were murdered in brutal - and eerily similar - fashion, their attackers first raping them, before killing them.

 

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12:55pm

  '27 Guns' coming soon



Showing on Friday.

 

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12:40pm

KCCA road works

Relief coming soon for residents.

 

 

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12:27pm

  PLE: Kadaga happy with Busoga performance



Speaker Rebecca Kadaga says she is happy that the performance of Busoga region - where she hails - registered marked improvement in last year's Primary Leaving Examinations.

"In the past, I would look up the Busoga results from the bottom of the page but this year, I went up," she said Thursday while launching a roadmap for the Busoga Consortium.

According to the Speaker, the improvement in PLE performance in Busoga was due to ramped up efforts by the Busoga Education Trust led by Ambassador Agnes Kalibbala. The Busoga Consortium is an international conference aimed at development of the Busoga Region to beheld in April 2019.

 

 

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12:15pm

  Quiin Abenakyo: Parliament honours Miss World Africa


This you miss this?

In case you did, the reigning Miss World Africa was at Parliament Wednesday afternoon, where MPs paid glowing tribute to the youthful beauty queen.

The House passed a motion to pay tribute to Abenakyo and legislators urged government to support programmes aimed at promoting girl child education in order to maximize potential of all the girl children.

Remember that during the 2018 Miss World competition in Sanya, China, Abenakyo's Beauty With a Purpose project was on teenage pregnancies, during which she drummed up support for the girl child to get an education.

(Read more on her project here)

 

 

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11:15am

  FGM case: 19 charged, remanded to prison in Kapchorwa



New Vision's Betty Amamukirori in Kapchorwa:


Nineteen people have been charged before the Kapchorwa chief magistrate Teko Lokeris aiding and abetting female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kween district.

They were later remanded to Kapchorwa Government Prison until February 6.

Police say most of them were participants. The mentors and cutters are still on the run.

Regional Police spokesperson Rogers Taitika confirmed that they met some resistance from locals to have the suspects released.

 

A source who preferred anonymity said Kween County MP Lawrance Mangusho Cherop had a bitter exchange with Police demanding that the accused, who are mainly from his village, be released immediately.

Police say they are still compiling evidence against the accused.

"This is a crime and we cannot relent to any pressures," said Taitika.

He said they are facing a lot of challenges, considering that there are many people involved in the vice - mostly done in secrecy.

Taitika  said whenever they try to sensitise the people, they are told it is their culture and there is no way they can do away with it.

 

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10:47am

  NRM to unveil party flagbearer on August 21 next year



On August 21, the party will unveil and present its Presidential candidate for the 2021 general elections to the National Electoral Commission, ahead of the start of Presidential campaigns in September.

 

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10:40am

  NRM's 2019-2021 political plan: The timeline




Between May and June 2020, the party will carry out its parliamentary and local government primaries, host its National Conference, and between July and August 15 2020, prepare and launch its party Manifesto for the 2021 general elections. 

 

 

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10:35am

  NRM's 2019-2021 political plan: The timeline




From October 2019-Jan 2020
, the party will undertake mass mobilization of party members to participate in the voters' register update exercise by @ugandaEC, and undertake general update of the register at each Parish,in line with Article 61(1)(e) of the constitution

Between March 19 and April 8, 2020, the party will display its National Voters'Register at each polling station , in line with Sec.24(1) & Sec.25(1) of the party constitution.

 

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10:30am

  NRM's 2019-2021 political plan: The timeline




From April 19 to May 19, the party will carry out District NRM conferences, and concurrently undertake the compilation and update of the party's National Voters' Register up to August.

Between September and November 2019, the party Electoral Commission will extract the voters' roll from the member register, publish the reorganized polling stations, and host the Second National NRM Conference to consider proposed amendments to the party Constitution.

 

 

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10:25am

  NRM's 2019-2021 political plan: The timeline




Between now and the end of February, we will be constituting party structures in new administrative units across the country, ahead of the official demarcation of constituencies and reorganization of party polling stations to take place from April-May this year.

 

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10:20am

  NRM's 2019-2021 roadmap



On Wednesday, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) launched their political roadmap for 2019-2021.

This was at the party's secretariat in Kyadondo, Kampala, where secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba unveiled the plan at a press conference.

 

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10:15am

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  WATCH: Around East Africa


 

 

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10:10am

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  WATCH: Around Uganda


 

 

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10:00am

Shaping Africa's future: 'Avoid uni-dimension approach'

Also on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, President Museveni addressed a roundtable meeting organised by the Africa Strategy Group on the theme of shaping Africa's agenda in the global context.

He cautioned the meeting to avoid a uni-dimension approach in shaping Africa's future.

"Whereas this might have worked in the 1950s when universal emphasis was on education, helping countries like South Korea to develop and transform, many other countries did not succeed," he said.

 

"Today, Africa is rising partly because governments are not hostile to the private sector. We lagged behind for long because many of our governments viewed the private sector with suspicion.

"That said, the total transformation of Africa will happen when we overcome the 10 strategic bottlenecks that we have identified and which I have spoken about severally. Key among them are infrastructure development, human resource development and market integration," said Uganda's statesman.

 

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9:47am

Museveni meets WFP chief in Davos

On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, President Yoweri Museveni also met the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, and his team.

They discussed means of consolidating co-operation between Uganda and WFP.

 

 

 

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9:40am

Museveni meets MTN chief in Switzerland

 

"It is for this reason that we are banning registration of new fully-owned foreign betting companies while the old ones will not have their licences renewed. All they do is accumulate money from Ugandans then ship it out of the country," said Museveni.

 

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9:35am

Museveni meets MTN boss in Davos

President Yoweri Museveni is in Switzerland attending the week-long World Economic Forum in the city of Davos.

There, he met the MTN Group Chief Executive Officer, Rob Shuter, and discussed with him a number of issues.

"I advised MTN Uganda to work towards floating shares on the Uganda Stock Exchange so that Ugandans can partly own the company," tweeted the President.

 

In my meeting with Mr Shuter, I also warned against telecoms underdeclaring calls and cheating our government of revenue. We have bought machines to track these calls but it is still important that the companies do not engage in this vice.
 

 

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9:30am

Dealing with immorality

"Many young people are growing up today with an exaggerated sense of entitlement, a presumption that society owes them a living and a predisposition to want to con their way to greatness. What is driving such motivation is a demonic spirit of materialism," said former Ethics Minister, James Nsaba Buturo, during plenary at Parliament.

Legislators want government to act immediately to curb what they termed as the appalling situation of moral decadence in the country.

 

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9:14am

Deadly shooting in downtown Kampala

Last evening, the sound of gunshots interrupted the 'chaotic' peace near the Old Taxi Park.

One person was killed and two others injured after a private security guard opened fire on Pioneer Building on Ben Kiwanuka Street near the Old Taxi Park in the heart of the city.

A woman, who Police later identified as Brendah Bukoye, aged 36, died on spot in an incident that set in motion a series of frenetic reaction, including a reported episode of people around swarming on the trigger-happy guard to wrestle his weapon from him.

(Read the full story here).

 

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9:05am

Refugee Birthday Party

This photo taken by AFP's Dave Kaup shows teenage refugees from Uganda striking a pose during the 2019 Refugee Birthday Party at the Della Lamb Community Center, January 20, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Many of the nearly 100 excited children running around a Kansas City community center over the weekend had two things in common. They were refugees, mostly from conflict-torn regions in Africa and the Middle East. And most were there to celebrate the same thing: a January 1 birth date. Far from a strange coincidence, the date is usually assigned to immigrants who arrive in the United States without birth certificates, as refugees often do.

 

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8:50am

  Oliver Mtukudzi: Afro-jazz legend dies at 66



Mtukudzi's lyrics, delivered through rasping vocals, often carried social messages about HIV/AIDS and alcohol abuse and encouraging self-respect, sometimes invoking proverbs and wisdom from his mother tongue, Shona.

He was rated by Forbes magazine one of Africa's 10 most bankable artists and some experts ranked him alongside Senegal's Salif Keita and Youssou N'Dour for his innovation and influence.

He was also famed for his philanthropy and commitment to human rights, and served as a goodwill ambassador for the UN's  children's agency Unicef.

 

In an interview with AFP last March, Mtukudzi played down the acclaim, saying "I don't even understand the word celebrity".

Instead, he said, he set great store by the words of his mother, who declared he would never sing a note better than his first scream after his birth.

"It means when I was born I had already started singing. This is who I am."

Opposition Movement for Democratic Change lawmaker and former education minister David Coltart also paid tribute.

"If anyone ever made me proud to be #Zimbabwean, it was you. Thank you for making us happy for so long, especially during the darkest days," he tweeted.

Tuku died exactly a year after his friend, the South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela.

He performed at Masekela's memorial in Johannesburg last year.

 

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8:45am

  Oliver Mtukudzi: A music legend goes to sleep



Zimbabwean musician Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a star of Afro-jazz who won a following across the continent and beyond, died on Wednesday at the age of 66, his agent told AFP.

He passed away in hospital in Harare, succumbing to diabetes complications, according to various local media.

The lanky self-taught guitarist was a legend in the vibrant cross-genre music of Afro-jazz, with 66 albums under his belt in a career that spanned 45 years.

 

"Today we said goodbye to a true patriot. Oliver Mtukudzi, your voice has given us comfort during difficult times, and will remain with us for posterity," said President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Twitter.

"We've lost an icon," Zimbabwean lawmaker Temba Mliswa added, also on Twitter, leading the call for him to be declared "a national hero for his national contribution to the music, arts and culture industry".

Mtukudzi's work -- dubbed "Tuku music" -- was a mixture of ethnic styles, including the Zulu-rooted mbaqanga from South Africa, and drew on diverse instruments, including Zimbabwe's mbira, a metal-tined, hand-held instrument.

 

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8:40am

Today's inspirational quote

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay - Simone de Beauvoir

 

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8:33am

How Wednesday transpired

Fancy to know what happened on Wednesday.

Quickly check out news as it happened yesterday HERE.

 

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8:26am

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  What the papers are saying


On the back pages.

(Get Thursday's e-paper here πŸ‘‰ http://bit.ly/vgepaper )

 

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8:21am

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  What the papers are saying


In BU$INESS

(Get Thursday's e-paper here πŸ‘‰ http://bit.ly/vgepaper )

 

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8:18am

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  What the papers are saying


NRM @33: Stories from the frontline

(Get Thursday's e-paper here πŸ‘‰ http://bit.ly/vgepaper )

 

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8:15am

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  What the papers are saying


The lead story . . .

Fresh details have emerged - that the three senior managers of telecom company, MTN Uganda, who were deported out of the country this week, were allegedly involved in sponsoring protests against the Government.

(Get Thursday's e-paper here πŸ‘‰ http://bit.ly/vgepaper )

 

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8:05am

Good morning

A new day is here - day 24 of January 2019.

Welcome once again!

 

 

 

3:15pm

RAS TOON

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