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Fresh Diary, pediatric nurses association launch new yoghurt-taking drive

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Geoffery Serugo
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(L-R) Jolly Rubambarama, a senior nurse and Chairperson - Uganda National Association of Paediatric and Child Health Nurses (UNAPCHN) and Caroline Muchobia, Manager Health and Nutrition Manager - Fresh Dairy unveil placard launching the 1-Yoghurt – A- Day campaign. The campaign seeks to encourage children and adults to consume yoghurt as yogurt contains protein which contributes to both the maintenance and growth of muscle mass and normal bones.

Fresh Dairy in collaboration with Uganda National Association of Paediatric and Child Health Nurses (UNAPCHN) have today launched a campaign dubbed ‘1-Yoghurt-a-Day’ aimed at encouraging more children and adults in Uganda to consume Yoghurt as an important step towards meeting their daily milk content requirement. The campaign will also seek to encourage children and adults to consume yoghurt as a healthy and nutritious snack.

Jolly Rubambarama, a senior nurse and Chairperson UNAPCHN noted that the health and nutrition benefits of consuming 1-Yoghurt-a-Day include having increased calcium, proteins, Vitamin D, Vitamin B2 and Vitamin B12, and Potassium that help in containing various ailments.

While launching the 1-Yoghurt-a-Day campaign, Caroline Muchobia, the Fresh Dairy Health and Nutrition Manager, said: ‘One of our key priority areas is Health and Nutrition. We realize that Yoghurt being one of the products we produce is a signature of a healthy diet and lifestyle not only for children but adults. Together with UNAPCHN whose expertise is Pediatrics and Child health, we are driving awareness and disseminating information on the benefits of yoghurt and its contribution towards a healthy lifestyle. It is important to expose children to healthy foods ( such as yoghurt , fruit and vegetables ) so that they learn to like them when they are still young and hence build a healthy generation by encouraging better dietary habits later in life.”

Muchobia noted that Fresh Dairy is passionate about open and collaborative partnerships such as UNAPCHN through whom the following will be achieved: Promoting healthy nutrition through educational programs and services for both parents and healthcare professionals; Establishing common goals to measure improvement in dietary habits and improvement of short and long term health and, investing in scientific research in the field of nutrition, and working with healthcare professionals to develop innovative solutions to help improve the health of current and future generations.

She explained that studies have shown that Yoghurt is a nutrient dense food that promotes good metabolic and overall health for both children and adults.

Fresh Dairy currently produces six flavors of Yoghurt namely: Strawberry, Vanilla, Chocolate, Mango, Plain and Butter Scotch which can be found countrywide.

 

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Kazoora, Calvin Da Entertainer in bitter fight over UBC Channel

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Badru Kasadah
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TV PRODUCER: Junior Dave Kazoora aka JK

Renowned TV presenters, Calvin Da Entertainer and Buddies Production boss, David Kazoora, are up in arms over UBC Magic 1 TV.

FLED WITH AWARD: Calvin Da Entertainer

Calvin has been managing the station since its inception over three years ago. However, his woes started last year following the arrival of Simon Kaheru as the Board of Chairman of UBC, who then engaged the services of Kazoora as a provider of content for both Magic 1 TV and Radio.

However, according to sources, Kazoora has literally assumed the role of manager of both stations, putting him on collision with the staff that he found in place including Calvin Da Entertainer.

Sources say the beef between the two peaked last week when Magic One TV won an award at the Buzz Teniez awards. The award was picked by Calvin, who Kazoora instructed to take the award to the station, but the request was blatantly rejected, with Calvin saying the award was in recognition for his hustle.

“We need the award. How dare you say this is your hustle, what hustle? ……you work for UBC not Magic…u,” a seemingly furious Kazoora wrote.

Meanwhile, Calvin is not alone in the fight. Other staff who Kaheru found at UBC have either resigned or are aggrieved with the new management.

One such person is veteran journalist, Tonny Owana, who at one time was head of UBC’s Star TV.

In a recent statement to media, Owana decried the workings of the new management. He said that whereas Kazoora had come as a content provider, he ended up acquiring ‘Magic TV’ and its sister radio station Magic 100 FM, promising to share with government (or UBC) the millions he would generate from his venture.

“Kazoora also came in as a content provider to Magic 100 FM but top officials at UBC recently told Sunday Vision that Kazoora is providing technology to UBC. Technology! Suspicious employees were assured that copies of the contracts empowering these two innovations would be shown to them, but we are yet to see them.

“And perhaps in line with revolutionary methods of work, we hear that the UBC contracts committee was not involved. To this we add the partnership with the Chinese StarTimes conglomerate, about which I know very little. I find it difficult to believe that the president does not know that UBC will soon be another collection of private media houses under an umbrella along Nile Avenue.”

 

 

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Ziza Bafana fires Manager just after 6 months

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Badru Kasadah
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Ziza Bafana (r), his manager Ken (M) and singer Irene Ntale (L)

Dancehall musician, Ziza Bafana has parted ways with his manager just six months since his hiring.

FIRED MANAGER: Dancehall star singer Ziza Bafana

We have reliably learnt that Bafana has parted ways with Kenneth Kasagazi Kenneth aka Bread Kenneth, formerly a manager of Good Lyfe. Apparently, the two parted ways due to poor business by Ken, and the ‘Gulumanasomye’ hit maker has now embarked on a hunt for a new manager.

Ziza Bafana was formerly managed by a one Roger for close to 5 years. Roger saw his raise to the top only to be fired last year over disagreements over monetary shares.

Roger currently manages singer Victor Kamenyo.

 

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Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa SA refugee status in the balance

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Badru Kasadah
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RPA RENEGADE: Lieutenant General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, South Africa has issued an order withdrawing the refugee status of a former Rwandan Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa will now have to make a fresh application for refugee status in South Africa within 180 days.

This is the agreement reached in the Appeal Court Wednesday between the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants (CORMSA) and the Litigation Centre as appellants, and the Department of Home Affairs as respondent.

The matter was taken to the Appeal Court by the NGO CORMSA who argued that Nyamwasa’s refugee status be withdrawn and reviewed because he was allegedly a party to war crimes and thus should not be granted refugee status as suspected perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity were ineligible.

In the Court’s ruling by Justice Azhar Cachalia: “The decision taken in June 2010 by the ninth respondent to grant Kayumba Nyamwasa refugee status in term of the refugees act is reviewed and set aside.”

“This matter was brought to protect the integrity of the refugees system in South Africa. It’s important for the refugee system to be there to protect vulnerable individuals and persons fleeing persecution and anybody who is suspected of having committed a war crime should not be offered protection within the system and this is the reason why CORMSA and Southern Africa Litigation centre (SALC) and the Wits Law clinic brought the matter originally,” the ruling further read.

This means the legal process on whether he remains in South Africa or is declared persona-non-grata will restart.

In 2010‚ the former Rwandan army general Nyamwasa arrived in South Africa as a refugee‚ fleeing from his home following a disagreement with President Paul Kagame. Weeks after his arrival‚ four men tried to kill him.

Nyamwasa‚ who together with Kagame, founded the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) which took power in 1994‚ survived the hail of bullets‚ and the suspects are behind bars.

Later‚ another attempt was foiled by State Security.

Since his arrival, it has been claimed that he was involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Rwandan genocide that left more than 800‚000 people dead. Through an affidavit, Nyamwasa told French investigators that he heard Kagame say RPF forces were responsible for the assassination of former president Juvenual Habyarimana‚ whose French-crewed plane was shot down with a missile on 1994.

 

 

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Uganda, TZ sign US$1.5bn oil pipeline deal

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Geoffery Serugo
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Energy Minister Irene Muloni and Tanzanian Constitution Minister Prof. John Palamagamba Kabudi, signing the Inter-Government Agreement on the Crude oil pipeline that will cost US $1.55bn

Energy Minister Irene Muloni and Tanzanian Constitution Minister Prof. John Palamagamba Kabudi, have signed an Inter-Government Agreement on the Crude oil pipeline that will cost US $1.55bn.

Energy Minister Irene Muloni and Tanzanian Constitution Minister Prof. John Palamagamba Kabudi after signing the agreement.

The project will create 100,000 jobs for the nationals of both countries especially in regard to provision of local content, Ms. Muloni said at the signing of the agreement at Serena Hotel.

The pipeline is expected to be the world’s longest electrically heated, starting from Kabaale in Hoima to the port of Tanga in Tanzania and carrying 260k barrels per day during peak of exploitation.

However, the Agreement is to be taken to the Parliaments of the two countries for ratification before sharing of details with the public.

On Monday May 21,  2017, Presidents Yoweri Museveni and John Pombe  Magufuli signed the agreement that is expected to strengthen the bond between the two countries in terms of business and oil sector.

The 1400km pipeline from Hoima to Tanga was least cost route for transporting crude oil at an estimated tariff of US$12.2 per barrel.

Uganda is to undertake the pipeline investment as a private driven venture with government interests taken by the National Oil Company

‘’I am extremely happy that the two Governments of Uganda and Tanzania have finally made this historical agreement’’. Muloni said after endorsing her signature.

The Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for pipeline is expected to be completed by August 2017 and the Final Investment Decision will be made by December 2017.

‘Our target and a roadmap has been established to list down the activities that must be carried out between now and 2020 when oil is expected to flow,” Minister Muloni said.

Prof. Kabudi, who signed on behalf of Tanzania, lauded president Magufuli for trusting him to initiate the agreement, and the Government of China for helping the two countries that are in need for this development.

“The government of Tanzania has no hesitation in establishment of this project, if it’s finishing it by 2020, then it will be 2020,” Prof. Kabudi said.

 

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DRC rejects international investigation into deaths of UN workers

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Agencies
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UN investigators Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and American Michael Sharp

Democratic Republic of Congo opposes an international investigation into the deaths of two UN investigators, the foreign minister said amid mounting criticism of the Congolese authorities’ own probe.

Congolese military prosecutors announced last weekend that two suspected militiamen would soon face trial for the March killings of UN investigators Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and American Michael Sharp in the insurrection-plagued Kasai region.

Rights groups, however, say they suspect Congolese forces could have been involved in the deaths.

A UN spokesman cast doubt on the credibility of the Congolese investigation, saying the world body was ‘taken aback at the rapidity at which it was done’.

A UN board of inquiry is investigating the experts’ deaths but is not expected to assign blame, leading some rights campaigners to call for a formal international investigation.

The Catalan and Sharp’s families also called for an “independent international criminal investigation team to … help ensure that those responsible face justice”.

Congo’s foreign minister, Leonard She Okitundu, rejected any such investigation and accused unnamed UN Security Council members of trying to discredit the Congolese justice system.

“Congolese expertise in this matter must be respected,” She Okitundu said.

The New York Times had reported on Sunday that Catalan had obtained a recording of a phone call in which ex-development minister Clement Kanku speaks approvingly of violence perpetrated by a local militia to a presumed militia member.

According to the Times, Catalan had informed Kanku she was in possession of the recording.

Congo’s attorney general said on Tuesday he had opened an investigation into the former minister’s possible role in militia violence. Kanku has denied any wrongdoing.

Catalan and Sharp disappeared in March in central Congo’s Kasai region, where hundreds have died since last July in an insurrection against the government. Their bodies were found two weeks later in a shallow grave.

Last month, the government screened a video for journalists showing their executions by men wearing red headbands characteristic of the local Kamuina Nsapu militia to rebuff suggestions authorities were complicit in the killings.

But many analysts say the grainy and highly edited video raises more questions than it answers, including why the assassins from the Tshiluba-speaking militia gave orders in Lingala, the language of western Congo and the army.

The investigators’ interpreter and three motorcycle taxi drivers who went missing with them have not been found.

 

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Ramadan begins Saturday

By
Our Reporter
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FLASHBACK: African Union soldiers were patrolling outside this mosque in case of an attack by al-Shabab, which stepped up attacks during last Ramadan.

Saudi Arabia has announced the official date for beginning of the Ramadan fasting month.

The country regarded as the birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia has announced that the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan will begin on Saturday, May 27.

Ramadan lasts 29 to 30 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon, and the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the five pillars of Islam.

During Ramadan, Muslims have to abstain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to sunset. Devout Muslims also mark the month by intense worship, performing special nightly prayers and reading Islam’s holy book, the Koran.

Fasting is one of Islam’s five pillars, alongside declaration of monotheism, prayer five times a day, alms-giving, and the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

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Last Japanese peacekeepers withdraw from South Sudan

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Agencies
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Japanese peacekeeping troops on arrival in Juba, South Sudan. The last contingent withdrew from the war-ravaged country yesterday. Photos/Samir Bol/AFP

The last Japanese troops withdrew from a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, marking the end of a controversial push by the Japanese prime minister to expand his military’s overseas role.

The 40 men and women, all that remained of Japan’s 350-strong military contingent, left from South Sudan’s capital of Juba on Thursday, where they have been based for the past five years as they helped build infrastructure in the war-torn country.

“I would like to show my great appreciation to the Japanese Self Defense Forces,” said David Shearer, the chief of the UN Mission in South Sudan in a statement on Thursday.

Shearer added: “Your work has consistently provided services that are essential for UNMISS to carry out its mandated tasks, including the protection of civilians and assisting in delivering humanitarian aid.”

Oil-rich South Sudan has been ravaged by civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.

The withdrawal will ease political pressure on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who had promised in March to bring them home and vowed to resign if any troops were killed.

Violence in South Sudan has worsened after an internationally backed peace deal failed last year, creating Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Parts of the country have plunged into famine and the fighting since has increasingly fractured along ethnic lines, leading the UN to warn of the risk of genocide.

Japan’s post-World War Two constitution prevents it from participating in active conflicts. But since November, the contingent was allowed to mount rescue missions and escort UN staff and charity workers, a move that stoked controversy in Japan.

The expanded role was in line with a 2015 security law pushed by Abe that expanded the overseas role of the Japanese military. Critics said the change weakened Japan’s war-renouncing constitution.

 

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Ssemwanga’s vigil on tonight at South African home

By
Badru Kasadah
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Ssemwanga's Muyenga home.

A vigil for the late South Africa-based Ugandan businessman, Ivan Ssemwanga is to take place today at his South African home in WaterKloof, 211 Crown Avenue.

Thereafter, the body will be flown to Uganda where it is expected to arrive on Sunday. A Vigil will be held at his home in Muyenga and on Monday there will be a church service at Namirembe Cathedral.

Thereafter the body will be taken to his ancestral home in Nakaliro, Kayunga District for burial. He will be buried on Tuesday.

Ssemwanga passed on today at Steve Biiko hospital, South Africa where he spent two weeks in a coma.

According to his cousin, King Lawrence, the late suffered a stroke that left him in a critical state until his death today.

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Jinja SS edges Kitende SS to win Ist Copa Coca Cola trophy

By
Badru Kasadah
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WINNERS: Jinja SS players celebrate after winning the Copa Coca-Cola 2017 Edition at Masaka Recreation Grounds

Over the weekend, residents of Masaka and surrounding areas were treated to a thrilling show of talent as Jinja S.S fought tirelessly to win their first Copa Coca-Cola trophy at Masaka Recreation Grounds.

The game which saw a Jinja S.S goal disallowed and a missed penalty from Kitende’s Pius Wangi all in the first half, ended with the former defeating the latter in a penalty shoot-out 4-3.

Jinja SS players, officials pose for a photo with their trophy of the Copa Coca-Cola 2017.

Jinja S.S scored the opening goal of the game in the second half through Joel Madondo in the 83rdminute, later followed by a goal from Kitende’s Kennedy Kasozi scored with only two minutes remaining. This equalizer took the game into the Spot-Kicks.

St Mary’s Kitende missed two of the spot-kicks and Jinja SS converted all four, emerging champions of the 25th edition of Copa Coca-Cola.

A Jinja SS player dribbles past St Mary’s Kitende players in the Finals of Copa Coca-Cola finals 2017

Commenting about the Victory, Jinja SS goal scorer Joel Madondo, said: “I would like to thank my teammates for the effort they put in during the tournament. It is a blessing that on our first time to reach the finals, we have emerged winners. Now we have set our sights on the East African trophy come August.”

Speaking after the thrilling final game, Mr. Rodney Nzioka, the Coca-Cola Uganda Brand Manager thanked Masaka S.S, the hosts, all the participating teams as well as the residents of Masaka and neighboring areas for an exciting two weeks.

“At Coca-Cola Uganda, we remain dedicated to the continued development of sports in Uganda right from the grassroots. We believe that with the right amount of motivation and dedication, we can turn the youth footballers from the COPA tournament to national and international football stars,” he concluded.

Jinja SS reached the finals after defeating Nakaseke in the semifinals and St Mary’s Kitende defeated the 2016 champions Kibuli SS in a game which was characterized by talent, pedigree and action.

St Julian’s Abdullah Ssenyonga was awarded an accolade for top scorer with 17 goals while the tournament MVP was Pius Wani from Jinja SS.

 

 

 

 

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