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For the first time, I want to eat a frog and a fat one at that to fulfill Chinua Achebe’s things fall apart

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Local Government Minister, Tom Butime.

By Nabendeh Wamoto

No rational Mumasaba can be happy with any explanation on Cabinet’s discriminative decision for the delay of Mbale city up to 1st July, 2021 and did I hear right the President complaining early this year that his (President) Ministers were sleeping? I must add that in Uganda those with authority don’t care and those few who care have no authority.

I don’t own poultry so the myth that in Africa when you find an old man eating chicken you would know that the man is sick or it was the chicken that was sick!!!

Upgrading Mbale municipality to city status are not issues of the spirit or issues of the soul, they are strict issues of the economy, morality and politics. For young Ugandans and for starters who occasionally consult me often, Mbale was the first municipality with Mengo (later Kampala) were declared as towns on the same day as early as 1906. The former therefore, would have qualified for city status a long time ago had there been no political purges of the 1970s and early 80s accompanied by the on-going shortage of hard-nosed bargainers/negotiators in Bugisu.

Actually President Milton Obote’s post-independence government declared Mbale a city in the late 1960s and embarked on its infrastructure upgrading including the tarmac road to Wanale hill as a precursor towards its commissioning which unfortunately was obstructed by then Col. Idi Amin’s takeover in 1971. One of the chief custodians of these historical facts about Mbale town and Bugisu as a whole is non-other than Gen. Yoweri K Museveni who interestingly chaired that ill-fated Monday Cabinet meeting that resolved the same. Bugisu and Mbale of that time produced exemplary, committed servant leaders and scholars of international stature and again then young Yoweri Museveni was a direct beneficiary as he received his initial, ideological classroom induction at Lumumba Research Bureau at Namakwekwe, Mbale in 1965 under the tutelage of the late Masaba Natoolo.

I will withhold and reserve some of the sensitive secret data regarding the training for obvious reasons. Factors instigating Bugisu peoples’ outpouring about the delay of Mbale city status to 2021 are an ill comparison to our (Bagisu) forefathers (read leaders) in the face of hungry children that they (parents) don’t complain or lament but provide solutions by hook or crook even when there was no food in the house. They would set a fire, place an empty cooking pot on the fire filled with stones and water then boil for as long as it would take just to provide hope to the children who would rather retire into sleep that it is the food that took long to be ready (in this case until 2021).

 Mbale is presently a commercial epicenter in the whole Eastern region, along the Northern corridor because of her proximity to Kenya, a neighbor with potent economy and more specifically the on-going construction of Mbale-Lwakhakha highway to Uganda-Kenya boarder.

 Bugisu co-operative union established a very powerful estate department and owns a string of buildings and land in Mbale and almost all neighboring areas.
 In 1960 and 1970, during the world coffee boom BCU was able to contribute tremendously to the development of not only Mbale, Bugisu but areas like Teso, Bukedi, Sebei etc by constructing Teso college Aloet, Bukedi college Kachonga, Tororo girls, Sebei college, Tegeres.

Nabendeh Wamoto S.P (0776-658433)
simonwamoto@yahoo.co.uk

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Uganda-Rwanda relations worsen as Rwandan security shoot two dead Rukiga district

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The territorial police in Kigezi is investigating the shooting to death of two male adults, one a Ugandan and the other Rwandan, by the Rwandan security forces, an incident which has worsened relations between the two countries. The murder occurred, yesterday at around 8pm, at Hamisavu, trading center, Kiruhura village, Kasekye Parish, Kamwezi Sub County, in Rukiga District, according to Uganda Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga.

The Rwandan citizen, identified as Peter Nyengye was a businessman, who attempted to cross into Rwanda on a motorcycle, loaded with his merchandise, but turned back upon noticing security presence across the border. He was however, chased and intercepted by two armed Rwandan soldiers, a distance of about 80 meters, into Ugandan territory, at Hamisavu trading center.

“The victim resisted attempts to arrest him, and was shot to the head and killed instantly. The armed soldiers. In addition, shot dead a Ugandan identified as Alex Nyesiga, who was trying to intervene. They immediately withdrew, after failed attempts to remove the body of the Rwandan victim. The two bodies were transferred to Kamwezi Health Center IV for further post-mortem analysis,” Enanga says.

“The police strongly condemn the violent acts of killing innocent civilians with impunity, regardless of their immigration status. In this very instance, there was no justification for the illegal entry and use of deadly force by the Rwandan military, due to the presence of alternative, adequate and effective remedies available at our disposal,” reads part of Uganda Police statement on the matter.

“For instance, in the recent past, 44 Rwandan nationals, who had illegally entered Uganda, were intercepted in Kasese district and deported to Rwanda in a very peaceful manner,” it adds.

As we forward the matter to the National Security Committee and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for better management, we would wish to urge our counterparts, to respect the rights of citizens along the border and avoid acts of provocation that can easily destabilize the prevailing peace along the border, says Enanga.

The latest incident comes at the time when Uganda has accused Rwanda of imposing a trade embargo on its goods as it does not allow the goods to enter Rwanda. Rwanda accuses Uganda of harboring rebels opposed to Kigali regime but Uganda denies the allegations, calling them unfounded. Rwanda has gone ahead to block its citizens from entering Uganda on allegations that Ugandan security mistreats them when they arrive in the country.

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Comesa, UNCTAD launch deal to establish regional trade information portals

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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have today launched a Co-delegation Agreement to implement trade facilitation projects in the region.

UNCTAD Secretary General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi and his COMESA counterpart Chileshe Kapwepwe launched the Agreement Friday at the COMESA Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia.

Under the Agreement, COMESA delegates to UNCTAD the design and development of national and regional Trade Information Portals (TIPs) and the Customs Automation Regional Centre (CARC).

The two activities are worth 3 million euros and will be funded from an 85 million euros kitty provided by the European Union to COMESA under the 11th European Development Fund Trade Facilitation Programme. Out of this amount, 68 million euros will be used to implement trade facilitation and small-scale cross border trade.

The TIPs will facilitate easy access to essential trade information in one platform while the CARC will support technical and functional training on the Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) World Platform thereby improving skills to develop and use applications. This is in addition to developing the latest ASYCUDA Applications to enhance trade facilitation systems at the national, regional and continental levels.

COMESA Secretary General said the co-delegation was informed by UNCTAD’s experience and expertise in promoting trade facilitation, and capacity in modernizing Customs Administrations, and ASYCUDA being its intellectual property.

“I am confident that UNCTAD will deliver the expected outcomes as enshrined in the Co-delegation Agreement,” she said.

In his address Kituyi said the engine of regional integration and the deepening integration through trade is largely dependent on the success of COMESA as the regional organization with the largest member states and a very substantial component of the African economy.

“You are the core and not only of the Tripartite (Tree Trade Area) but at the very base of how to develop the architecture and practicalities of Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA),” he said.

“In no way are we going to downplay the centrality facilitated in trade, not only as a way of making Africa competitive but also overcoming the challenges particularly of landlocked countries on the continent which faces the daunting task in competitively trading with the rest of the world.”

He said UNCTAD, is a proud partner of COMESA and its Member States, having carried out substantial work together in creation and strengthening of national trade facilitation committees.

“We offer from our expertise and our experience backstopping to the trade facilitation subcommittee of COMESA, and I would like to share with the Secretary General our willingness and availability [as UNCTAD] to build on the co-delegation agreement other shared responsibilities,” Kituyi said.

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Eccas benchmarking on Comesa in trade facilitation

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The Economic Commission of Central African States (ECCAS) has mounted a mission to Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) to benchmark on the latter’s successful trade facilitation programmes.

Fifteen officials comprising of economists, customs, trade, agriculture, legal and programme experts were sent to learn best practices from their COMESA counterparts.

The study visit aims at strengthening institutional capacities and develop the competencies of ECCAS and its national institutions in order to promote trade facilitation mechanisms through a sharing of experiences on best practices developed in the COMESA and EAC.

Assistant Secretary General of COMESA Dr Kipyego Cheluget, who interacted with the delegation said COMESA’s niche was trade and investment and had therefore designed trade facilitation programme that have been benchmarked across the African continent.

“For example, the COMESA Yellow Card, a single insurance cover for motorists traversing across member States is a runaway success whose contribution to regional trade is big,” Dr Cheluget said.

ECCAS hopes that its interaction with COMESA experts will improve the level of competencies of its experts in promoting a regional mechanism which makes it possible to reduce delays, better management of transit operations and the smooth flow of intra-regional trade in Central Africa.

The delegation will on Saturday, 25 tour of the One Stop Border Post at Chirundu on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to see how its functions. The establishment of the border post is one of the COMESA trade facilitation projects and reduced the transit time for trucks from nine days to one.

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IUCEA awards Shs3.7b to establish incubation centers at Africa Centers of Excellence

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Geoffery Serugo
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The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), a Regional Facilitation Unit for the World Bank-supported Africa Centers of Excellence for East and Southern Africa Project (ACE II) has selected incubation centers to be hosted at four of the Africa Centers of Excellence (ACEs).

Each of the four centers will receive a financial award of US$ 250,000 (about Shs925 million) from the World Bank grant of One million dollars (about Shs3.7 billion), seed fund for the establishment of the regional incubation centers for East and Southern Africa.

The ACEs selected to host the Incubation Centers are: ACEESD – African Center of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development, University of Rwanda, CREATES – Center for Research Advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability in Food and Nutrition Security, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania,

Otheres are; PHARMBIOTRAC – Center for Pharm-Bio Technology and Traditional Technology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda and PTRE – Center of Excellence in Phytochemicals, Textile and Renewable Energy based at Moi University, Kenya

IUCEA received 15 proposals in response to a call that was issued in June 2018. The call invited any African Center of Excellence participating in the ACE II Project to submit proposals to host Incubation Centers through a co-financing arrangement in the four priority areas of the ACE II Project which include health, industry, agriculture, and education/applied statistics. The proposals were evaluated through a rigorous 3-step process by an international team of experts with extensive experience in business incubation, start-ups creation and successful commercialization of innovations and covered a diverse array of important topics — such as energy for sustainable development, innovative drugs development, food and nutrition security, among others — that are critical to the development of the region.

In the evaluation process priority was given to ACEs that already had good enough products that may require improvement, promotion for wider markets and potential for business incubation, i.e. the process of nurturing of early stage ventures to success. Another key criterion considered was the capacity to source additional sources of co-financing for the Center, to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the incubation center.

According to Dr. K. A. Appiah, a member of the Regional Steering Committee of the ACE II project who chaired the Independence Selection Panel, “the quality of the proposals that were submitted was quite high, and it was a difficult decision to have to select only 4 out of the 15 proposals submitted,” he said.  He added, “We hope that more funding can be made available by host governments and other institutions to fund other incubation centers. Our international team of experts were very impressed and eager to work with the selected ACEs to ensure that the selected incubation centers are successful in commercializing research innovations towards job creation and economic growth.”

The selection panel recommended that although the fifth selected institution, Center for Innovative Drugs Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa) could not be funded, the proposal “was one of the best and needed to be considered as a non-funded Incubation Center.”

The IUCEA and the World Bank believe that such incubation centers will help build important linkages between academia and industry to help galvanize business growth in these priority areas that are critical to long-term growth and development of the region.

“The World Bank believes strongly in the innovation potential of African research, as a key lever in the continued economic development of the continent, and these incubations centers will serve as important hubs where the impact of research can be transformed to commercial opportunities. We hope these centers will be the first among many to follow,” said Dr. Roberta Malee Bassett, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank and Task Team Leader for ACE II Project.

The Eastern and Southern Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence (ACE II) Project supports the governments of Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia in strengthening selected African Centers of Excellence (ACEs) to deliver quality post-graduate education and build collaborative research capacity in the priority areas of (i) Industry, (ii) Agriculture, (iii) Health, (iv) Education, and (v) Applied Statistics.

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BoU’s counsel Margaret Kasule could be held liable for transfer of properties of Meera Investments to DFCU Bank

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BoU Legal Counsel Ms Margaret Kasule whose accused of misleading on Crane Bank Limited legal status.

The Bank of Uganda (BoU) recently decided to hand DFCU Bank extra 24 months to occupy freehold properties of Meera Investments Limited after the initial 34 months ended.

The deal to give DFCU Bank extra time was signed by BoU Governor Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Deputy Governor Dr Louis Kasekende as well as Head of Legal Margaret Kasule on one side while DFCU top bosses sealed appended signatures on the side of the bank.

As a recap, in October 2016, BoU took over Crane Bank Limited on grounds of undercapitalization, placed it under receivership before transferring it to DFCU Bank in January, 2017. DFUC Bank would be allowed to operate in different CBL branches whose ownership belonged to Meera Investments limited, one of the companies under Ruparelia Group. That advice was given by Counsel Kasule who now could be held liable for misadvising BoU.

Chairman of Ruparelia Group Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments in a recent application to court want the recovery, transfer and return of freehold property from CBL in receivership, a case that Kasule should be lined up as one of the witnesses.

Sudhir’s lawyers from law firm Kampala Associated Advocates, he says have advised him  that under the Constitution and the Land Act, DFCU Bank cannot own and hold freehold property and is therefore, not capable of holding the suit property in its names.

As Sudhir argues above, Kasule should have observed the issue and advised BoU accordingly as legal counsel. Between 2012 and 2016, Meera Investments leased the 46 properties to Crane bank on different terms with the leases being duly registered as encumbrances on Meera’s freehold and mailo interest.

DFCU Bank, which was the new tenant moved to take over the 46 properties, without the consent of the owners Meera Investments.

“Through a subsequent search at the relevant land registries, the plaintiff (Meera Investments) discovered that; without it’s prior written consent, Dfcu Bank in addition to taking possession of the suit properties, caused the leasehold interest to be transferred into its names and had been registered thereon as the proprietor of the leasehold interest,” Meera Investments says in the recent plaint.

They add that at the execution of the transfers in favour of Dfcu and at the time of causing the transfer of the leasehold interest into the names of Dfcu, the registration of Meera as the proprietor of the freehold and mailo was and is still intact.

Meera says Dfcu was aware of this fact or could have ascertained by way of a simple search.

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Former Crane Bank employee drags Bank of Uganda and DFCU Bank over Shs80m debt

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The Late BoU Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile

A former employee of Crane Bank Limited (CBL) Shakil Pathan Ismail has successfully applied for a court order directing Bank of Uganda (BoU), a garnishee, to pay Shs80 million that DFCU Bank owes him as earlier directed by court in mid-January.

The order to force BoU transfer the said money from DFCU Bank account (debtor) and pay the plaintiff was okayed by Her Worship Flavia Nabakooza on May 22, 2019 and arises out of civil suit No.236 of 2017 in which Mr Ismail sued CBL for unlawfully blocking/deducting the money from his salary account (Shs62 million), general damages (Shs20 million), exemplary damages, interest and costs of this suit.

The deducted money attracts 21 percent interest per annum from April 2016 till full payment is made while general damages attract interest of 6 percent per annum from the judgement date of January 15, 2019, as ruled by Justice David Wangutusi of the Commercial Court Division.

Ismail won the case, having sued CBL but DFCU Bank which took over CBL on January 25, 2017 has not paid the money as ruled by court. He claimed CBL ducted his money from his account without authorisation from March 2015 to Feb 2016.

However failure by DFCU Bank to pay the money forced Ismail to drag BoU, the regulator of the banking industry, to court through his attorney Ulfat Ali Pirzada. Court has set June 4, 2019 as date BoU should appear and argue against the order requiring it to transfer the stated money from DFCU Bank’s account in the central bank to Mr. Ismail’s account.

Ismail (Plaintiff) was earning a monthly salary of US$2200 (about Shs7.9 million at rate of Shs3, 600 per USD). He claimed CBL unlawfully blocked his account and thereafter made multiple deductions totaling to Shs 62 million which sum has never been remitted to him by DFCU Bank.

As a recap, on October 20, 2016, BoU in exercise of its powers as the Central Bank under the Financial Institutions Act No. 2 of 2004 took over the management of CBL on the basis that it was significantly undercapitalized as defined by law and placed it under receivership.

By way of a purchase of assets and assumption of liabilities agreement dated January 25, 2017, DFCU Bank as buyer took over some of the assets and liabilities of CBL (In Receivership) from the receiver BoU. DFCU Bank was assigned CBL’s rights and liabilities under all its existing employment contracts subject to certain exclusion clauses.

According to the agreement Schedule 3 Clause 2; terminal benefits and all employment dues of Employees terminated by DFCU Bank within two months from the completion date are listed as excluded liabilities.

Clause 5.3 provides for employee matters. It states that;

“The Receiver shall indemnify the Buyer against all liabilities to an employee arising out of the employment of an employee during the period prior to and ending on the completion date, including arrears of wages or salaries, overtime payments and accrued leave.”

The Plaintiff was one of the employees of CBL whose employment contract was assigned to DFCU Bank. The Plaintiff’s employment was terminated by DFCU Bank. It is the Plaintiff’s claim that despite the termination of his employment no settlement regarding the deductions on his salary account has been made thus he filed this suit seeking recovery of the same.

Denying liability DFCU Bank argued that it was not a successor in title to CBL but only acquired some of its assets and liabilities in January 2017. That the liabilities of CBL were not known to DFCU Bank BoU the Statutory Receiver of CBL as January 25, 2017.

It was DFCU Bank’s claim that the liability within CBL books was only presented to the it at the time when Mr Ismail was leaving its’s employment and that its termination of the Mr Ismail’s contract did not pass on to it a liability that was within CBL’s books. Justice David Wangutusi however quashed DFCU Bank’s arguments and awarded Ismail the money even though not all his request were accepted by the judge.

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Charcoal production: Over 5800 hectares of trees planted in pilot study as regional demand ups

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George Mangula
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The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is supporting the establishment of dedicated tree growing for energy and charcoal production through promotion of fast growing trees in the “cattle corridor districts”, with 5,888 hectares of trees so  planted as dedicated feedstock.

The project is being piloted in the big charcoal producing districts of Mubende, Nakaseke, Kiboga, and Kiryandongo. A national rollout will be undertaken following the successful implementation of this pilot, according to officials.

Energy minister Eng. Irene Muloni, says charcoal and firewood constitute a major source of energy for cooking food and heating in households, educational institutions, hospitals, barracks, confectionaries and restaurants.

In 2017, it was observed that Uganda had lost one million hectares of forest cover over the previous 10 years yet the government had planted less than 150,000 hectares, creating a deficit. It was observed the country losses 100,000 hectares of forests annually.

However, the minister says the current charcoal production regime in Uganda is unsustainable leading to deforestation, land degradation and a multitude of other undesirable effects, which calls for growing of more trees.

Minister Muloni cites studies that indicate woodfuel demand in Uganda in 2018 was 33 million tons of fuelwood, 2.5 Mt of charcoal and 2.7 Mt of agricultural and forest residues, with a combined energy content of 599 Peta Joules and requiring annual input of 57 Mt of woody biomass. Demand is expected to more than double by 2040.

Promoting use of efficient and modern production technologies

She says her ministry is promoting the use of efficient and modern production technologies. “These technologies can register much better yields of up 30 –40 percent down from 10 percent realized from the traditional earth kilns. At the end-user level, Modern and more efficient stoves are being promoted to ensure efficient utilization of the fuel and also ease pressure on the existing biomass resources,” she says.

Promotion of alternatives and substitutes to solid biomass energy

The Ministry, according to Muloni, is also promoting clean cooking fuels and technologies such as briquettes, pellets, biogas and Liquidified Petroleum Products (LPG) in households, institutions and commerce. These technologies have big potential to reduce the demand for fuelwood and charcoal in Uganda.

External demand of Uganda’s charcoal

Tight harvesting controls, a charcoal ‘ban’ and other strict regulatory measures being pursued in some neighbouring countries has resulted in high export demand and smuggling of Uganda’s charcoal across several borders. “This development has adversely affected local prices and worsened Uganda’s situation where the demand for wood already outpaces the supply leading to continued depletion and degradation of our national wood resource base,” says the minister.

She says her Ministry will continue to build strategic partnerships and ensure effective stakeholder coordination with other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the private sector and civil society organizations involved in the management of biomass and charcoal value chains. Strategies for securing adequate financing of the subsector are also being pursued.

Why charcoal is popular in Uganda

Charcoal remains a popular fuel in Uganda and in Sub Sahara Africa because it is associated with many advantages.  According to experts, charcoal burns at high temperature, produces less smoke than firewood and is convenient to store. It is cheaper and more affordable by most urban dwellers and a significant source of livelihood for many Ugandans.

But charcoal also has several disadvantages. Its production is inherently inefficient requiring big volumes of feedstock, experts say. “Charcoal is also delicate and can easily go to waste by breaking into fines and powder,” they add.

Meanwhile, the Ministry has partnered with the Office of the President, Ministry of Water and Environment and UNDP to host a high level dialogue on May 28, 2019 in Kampala to discuss and share issues on best practices and strategies to ensure a sustainable biomass sub sector in Uganda.

The dialogue is orgainsed under the Theme: “Together for a Sustainable Charcoal Industry”. The theme is in line with streamlining of the charcoal industry towards tree growing for energy production, efficient processing, transport, storage and utilization.

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UK Prime Minister Theresa May resigns

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Geoffery Serugo
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced her resignation, putting an end to months of speculation over her future because of her handling of Brexit.

“It is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country to have a new prime minister,” May told reporters. She said she will be resigning on June 7.

“It is a matter of deep regret that I have not been able to deliver Brexit,” May added. “My successor will have to find a consensus. Consensus will only be possible if those on both sides of the debate compromise.”

Toward the end of her speech, May’s voice cracked and she appeared on the verge of tears, adding: “It’s been the honor of my life to serve the country I love.”

An election within the Conservative Party now will commence to determine who takes over as party leader. That person also will become prime minister, as the Conservatives are still the largest party in the House of Commons despite months of infighting.

May’s authority has looked increasingly shaky in recent months. Her Brexit deal, which she spent the better part of three years negotiating and re-negotiating, has been rejected by lawmakers three times this year. She previously said she’d would resign if her Brexit deal was passed, but now she’s bowing to pressure from lawmakers within her own party to resign before a deal is again put up for a vote.

A speech on Wednesday in which May unveiled a new plan to get her Brexit deal through Parliament included a vote for lawmakers on “on whether the deal should be subject to a referendum.”

This proved to be deeply unpopular with Brexit-supporting members of her own party, including MP Boris Johnson, who said on Tuesday that while he’d previously backed May’s deal with “great reluctance,” he couldn’t support her new plan.

Johnson announced his intention to run for prime minister once May steps down. Others expected to run include Dominic Raab, Esther McVey and Matt Hancock. Whoever assumes control still must resolve key issues around Brexit.

The U.K. is set to leave the EU on Oct. 31, but the country’s political future has never looked more uncertain.

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Museveni heads to South Africa ahead of president Ramaphosa’s inauguration

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Geoffery Serugo
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President Yoweri Museveni

President, Yoweri Museveni, has left for South Africa ahead of President-elect, Cyril Ramaphosa’s inauguration that takes place tomorrow.

Ramaphosa will tomorrow be inaugurated as South Africa’s sixth democratically elected President and take charge of the highest office in the land.

The President-elect is expected to take his oath of office on Saturday as part of the swearing-in ceremony that will be performed by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.

The President-elect will then proceed to sign the swearing-in certificate at the ceremony to be attended by several imminent persons and thousands of South Africans at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in the capital.

In his journey leading up to the inauguration, Ramaphosa was elected unopposed in the National Assembly after he was nominated by the African National Congress (ANC).

He was elected to fill the top post at the first sitting of a newly constituted Parliament comprising the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces (NCOP).

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