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‘Battleground’ premieres on Africa Magic

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Our Reporter
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Members of the 'Battleground' cast pose for a group photograph

The latest Nigerian telenovela, Battleground, showing exclusively on Africa Magic Showcase, premiered this week.

Produced for Africa Magic by Ace Nigerian filmmaker and pioneer Tinsel producer, Mr. Femi Odugbemi, Battleground tells the intriguing story of the Bhadmus family patriarch Chief Kolade Bhadmus, a man whose desire for power, fame and influence leads to dire consequences for his family and business.

The Director, M-Net West Africa, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, said: “Battleground is an exciting new telenovela that shows how the combination of love, lust, greed and power ultimately results in a powerful story with different, ripple effects for everyone involved.”

Battleground follows the success of Africa Magic’s recently concluded telenovela, Hush, and the launch of new shows included the sitcom My Flatmates and Jemeji, another telenovela.

”Battleground is yet again another example of Africa Magic’s continued investment in the African film and television industry. The show features an ensemble cast that mixes established Nollywood actors and new, up and coming faces in the industry. I urge our viewers to tune in and catch this amazing show,” added Mba-Uzoukwu.

Battleground stars Nollywood veterans Joke Silva, Yinka Davies, Gbenga Titiloye and Francis Onwuchei. Other actors are Shaffy Bello, Ozzy Agu, Okey Uzoeshi, Ini Dima-Okojie and Hauwa Allahbura. The show also features Chike Osebuka and Nonso Bassey, both finalists from the first season of The Voice Nigeria. 

Battleground premiered on Africa Magic Showcase (DStv channel 151). The show will air weeknights at 21:00 CAT.

 

 

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Mary Hill outclass Kibuli SS to win National Schools Championship

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Badru Kasadah
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VICTORIOUS: Stanbic Board Chairman Japheth Katto (2nd right), Director Education KCCA, Juliet Namuddu (right) and Cathy Adengo, Stanbic Bank’s Head of CSR and Communications (left) pose for a group photo with Mary Hill High School representatives, the winners of the 2017 Stanbic National Schools Championship.

Mary Hill High School from Western Uganda emerged victorious in the Stanbic Bank National Schools championships, following a highly competitive final held in Kampala that featured the other three regional competitors; Kibuli SS from Central region, Sacred Heart Girls School from Northern region and   Teso College Aloet from Eastern region.

The team from Mary Hill High School presented a detailed bank simulation project, which looked at how financial institutions can positively transform the societies where they operate.

As the overall winners, the Mary Hill High school team won the Grand Prize of an all-expenses paid trip to South Africa and their school also won an amazing UGX 20 Million fully installed Solar system for class room blocks.

Congratulating Mary Hill High School at the prize giving ceremony, Stanbic Board Chairman Japheth Katto said: “The team from Western Uganda has been outstanding throughout the competition. They beat 9 schools to win in their region and have carried this form into the finals culminating in their victory. They are truly worthy winners and representative of exactly what we were looking for when we started this competition which necessitated teamwork, commitment, and a sound knowledge of how financial institutions can make a difference in everyday lives.”

The Guest of Honour, the Director Education KCCA, Juliet Namuddu praised Stanbic Bank for the initiative.

“KCCA appreciates what Stanbic Bank has achieved through this competition, because financial literacy is a very important subject yet it is not extensively taught in most schools,” she said, and pledged continued support to Stanbic to enable the bank engage in various educational projects which give students the practical life skills necessary to succeed in real life.

The 2017 edition of the National Schools Championship was launched in February by Stanbic Bank in partnership with the Ministry of Education. Over 3,000 students from 40 secondary schools participated in a series of increasingly difficult educational challenges including class debates, regional quiz competitions and finally the Bank simulation project.

Kibuli SS  emerged  as the 1st Runner up  and every member of the team walked away with an Apple iPad each and a water system for the school worth UGX10 million. Each member from Sacred Heart Girls High School, the second runner up team, received a savings account with UGX 1 million and a copy of book titled ‘7 habits of highly effective teenagers’.

Cathy Adengo, Stanbic Bank’s Head of CSR and Communications lauded the participants and said the competition was instructive for economic development.

“This has been a fantastic competition and the entire programme has shown us the brilliant minds we have across the country. Stanbic Bank believes that investing in education is a critical vehicle to fostering development in the country. We believe that healthy competition and innovativeness among students is a step forward to creating active minds which yield solutions that would steer not only improved academic performance, but also definite solutions to moving Uganda economically forward,” Me Adengo said.

 

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EU declines to send expert mission to Rwanda for the August elections

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MADE ANNOUNCEMENT: EU envoy to Rwanda Michael Ryan

The European Union will not send any observer mission to monitor elections in Rwanda, where the constitutional one month campaigns begin early July.

The tiny Central Africa country goes to the polls on August 4, and in a closed-door meeting last week the EU envoy to Rwanda Michael Ryan told the National Electoral Commission (NEC) that for the second time, the body would not send any observers due to ‘lack of funds’. The meeting was also attended by ambassadors from Germany, UK, France and Belgium.

The EU did not send a team in the previous elections of 2010, and says that unlike an observer mission which assesses the credibility of an election, an expert mission assesses the potential political, social, media and economic risks before the polls and examines likely interventions.

“We are not sending any formal observer missions to the August elections. We don’t see the need and have limited resources. There are many elections in the world and we have to decide where to put our resources,” Mr Ryan was quoted as saying.

In  2015, the EU, one of Rwanda’s largest donors, was critical of the 2015 Referendum that postponed the application of presidential term limits.

However, the Rwanda NEC boss Kalisa Mbanda said any bodies wishing to observe the country’s elections would be invited for accreditation next month.

“Our thoughts are that there will be no surprises in Rwanda. It has nothing to do with the fact that we disagreed with the referendum,” Mr Ryan was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, the EU has announced it will send an expert mission to Kenya ahead of the elections also scheduled for August.

Kenya is considered a flashpoint and following the December 2002 elections the country descended into chaos in which over 1300 people were killed.

Meanwhile, according to a December 2016 survey, 70 per cent of the Kenyans fear that violence may again erupt during elections this year.

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South Sudan halts Al Jazeera coverage

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Our Reporter and Agencies
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The Al Jazeera logo

South Sudan government through its Media Authority suspended local operations of the Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera English in the capital Juba and barred its crew from covering any activities across the country until further notice.

This, according to sources, follows the presence of an Al Jazeera team from Uganda, which conducted interviews with South Sudan rebels. Al-Jazeera English recently aired a report on displacement of people in Kajo-keji County as a result of fighting between government troops and opposition fighters. The report further said the area of Kajo-keji is largely divided between South Sudan government and the opposition.

“What I know is that Al-Jazeera English crew from Uganda came to Kajo-Keji County and conducted exclusive interviews with rebel groups that are fighting the government there. It is not actually Al-Jazeera South Sudan that conducted the interviews, but because it is the same institution,” the source said.

“The Media Authority through the National Security Service has stopped Al-Jazeera English from broadcasting anything to do with South Sudan until the issue is resolved. We don’t know until when but it seems the government is not happy because the report exposed its loss in Kajo-Keji County,” the source added.

The Media Authority was created under a bill signed into law in 2014. Its members, including representatives of the National Security Service, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, were appointed by President Kiir.

Multiple sources said that the Managing Director of South Sudan’s Media Authority, Elijah Alier Kuai, wrote a letter after seeking permission from the Nation Security Service to the office of the network’s English channel in Juba to stop covering any events or airing live interviews in the country until the issue is resolved.

Officials at the Media Authority could not be reached for comment.

 

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Protesters force Zuma to abandon Labour Day celebrations

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ANTI-ZUMA PROTESTERS! South African protesters against President Jacob Zuma's rule

South Africa’s scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma abandoned a May Day rally after he was booed by workers demanding his resignation.

Scuffles broke out between Mr Zuma’s supporters and opponents, resulting in all speeches being cancelled.

The main labour federation, Cosatu, called on Mr Zuma to step down last month after he sacked his widely respected finance minister.

Mr Zuma’s allies say he will remain in office until his term ends in 2019.

He was seen on live television hastily leaving the podium and being whisked away in a motorcade from the rally in Bloemfontein city.

Mr Zuma attended the rally despite the fact that powerful affiliates of Cosatu, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, had opposed his presence.

Cosatu is part of a formal alliance with the governing African National Congress (ANC).

 

Earlier, sections of the crowd sang a song which, loosely translated, means: “Have you heard the good news? Zuma is going”.

Cosatu leader Sdumo Dlamini said the rally had been marred by ‘chaos’, forcing its cancellation.

The protest required ‘thorough reflection’ on the part of the country’s leaders, he said.

Senior ANC officials were also booed at a May Day rally in Durban city, the political heartland of Mr Zuma.

Pressure on Mr Zuma to resign has been mounting since he sacked Pravin Gordhan as finance minister in March.

It led to global rating agencies downgrading South Africa to junk status.

The reshuffle was condemned by trade unions, big business, the opposition and and senior members of the government, including Deputy President Cyril Rampahosa.

The opposition has repeatedly accused Mr Zuma of being corrupt, and says the reshuffle was aimed at giving him and his allies greater access to government money.

Mr Zuma said the reshuffle was aimed at promoting ‘radical economic transformation’ to benefit the poor black majority.

South Africa’s president has been dogged by allegations of corruption for more than a decade.

Last year, a court ruled that he should face corruption charges over a 1999 arms deal.

Mr Zuma is appealing against the ruling.

In a separate case last year, South Africa’s highest court ruled that he had breached his oath of office by failing to repay government money used to upgrade his private residence.

He repaid the money, but rejected calls to step down.

Mr Zuma is due to step down as leader of the ANC in December and as South Africa’s president in 2019.

His ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Mr Rampahosa are vying to succeed him in both positions.

 

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Kananura acquittal upsets family of murdered Katerega

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Geoffery Serugo
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TO FACE APPEAL: Andrew Kananura, alias, Desh, in the dock at Buganda Road Court. He is currently appearing before the High Court for murder.

BUDAKA-The acquittal of businessman and rally driver Andrew ‘Desh’ Kananura by High Court Judge Joseph Murangira has distressed the family of the late Badru Kateregga, an attendant at the former’s Panamera Bar in Naguru.

Last Friday Justice Murangira set Kananura and his co-accused, brother Raymond Kananura, Cyrus Maganda, Samuel Muzolewa and Jacob Onyango free citing failure by prosecution to prove the case ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.

Further, according to Justice Murangira, the prosecution also failed to produce the investigating police officers to give evidence, after the officers claimed they feared for their lives.

Ms Rehema Hamuza, mother of late Badru Katerega pondering on what next.

However, in an interview with EagleOnline, Kateregga’s mother Rehema Hamuza said the case that dragged since September 2012 had negatively impacted on their family, with her husband and father to the deceased, succumbing to death in March 2014, two years after the death of his son, who was reportedly killed for being in possession of a Shs30, 000 tip, purportedly against the rules of the bar.

“It is unfortunate and regrettable (Kananura’s acquittal) to be telling us that the man who masterminded the killing of our child has been acquitted,” a teary Ms. Hamuza said at her home in Kamonkoli, Budaka district, adding that the family had lost trust in the judiciary.

She also said her three grandchildren; among them Ashraf Badru and Waluda Badru, sired by the late Kateregga, had failed to go to school for lack of school fees.

The late Katerega’s family home in Kamokoli, Budaka district.

 

Meanwhile, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has said it will appeal the court ruling, with Spokesperson Jane Okuo Kajuga saying the judge did not put attention to details provided by their office.

“It is or considered opinion that he (the Judge) did not evaluate the evidence at all. We don’t understand how he came to this conclusion,” Ms Okuo Kajuga, a Senior Principal State Attorney, noted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Uganda woos strategic European investors for the oil industry

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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Dr. Josephine Wapakhabulo, Chief Executive Officer, Uganda National Oil Company and other participant in German.

Dr. Josephine Wapakhabulo, Chief Executive Officer, Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC), has told participants of the 11thGerman African Energy Forum that Uganda is looking for strategic partners in the oil industry and that there is room for German companies.

The Forum, that took place at Hotel Sofitel in Hamburg from 25th to 26th April 2017, was organised by the German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein der deutschenWirtschafte.V.) in conjunction with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

The Forum, which is the main platform for the Euro-African energy business, had a special focus on energy in Africa and addressed a number of topics that included Energy for industry (mining, automotive, manufacturing), Energy resources and local value creation, Innovations and Electricity, off-grid and on-grid solutions.

Dr. Wapakabulo, who was accompanied by Uganda’s Ambassador to Germany, Marcel Tibaleka, said that there was hope that Uganda can have more diversity in the oil industry. “Plans are underway to develop a 60,000 barrel per day refinery that will serve Uganda and its immediate neighbours. The refinery is being developed on a private-public partnership basis (60% – 40%). Uganda has huge deposits of gas and some 6.5 billion barrels of oil, of which 1.4 billion is recoverable.

 

Uganda is currently embarking on the development phase of the fields from which international oil companies-Tullow Oil (UK), Total Oil (France) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) -are expected to start producing oil by 2020”, she said.

Hon. Uwe Beckmeyer, State Secretary Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, while officially opening Forum, promised that Germany will continue contributing to the development of Africa’s main growth sectors like agricultural business development, raw material value addition, service industry and manufacturing. He said Germany was ready to foster closer cooperation with Africa through partnerships and dialogue.

He cautioned that Africa’s fast growing population would lead to an increased demand for energy and also noted that Africa is able to cover its own energy needs and even share with others.

Participants at the two-day Forum were able to network with decision-makers in business and government from Africa and Germany, exchange ideas with German scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs from the energy sector, and get to know the latest information about current projects and opportunities for markets for renewable and conventional energy on the African continent

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Wonekha leaves Washington

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Geoffery Serugo
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Ambassador Oliver Wonekha the outgoing Ambassador of Uganda to the United States of America handover her office on Friday last week.

Amb. Wonekha was posted to Kigali in the last reshuffle and she will be replacing Amb. Richard Kabonero who was posted to Tanzania.

Wonekha has been head of mission since May 2013, made her official farewell at a US State Department ceremony in Washington DC on April 27 2017.

 

She handed over office to Mr Dickson Ogwang as Charge D’Affaires a.i. and will now proceed to Kampala to await agreement as Uganda’s High Commissioner to Rwanda.

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Uganda to provide land for UN logistics base expansion-Oryem

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Our Reporter
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Minister Okello Oryem and Ms. Lisa Buttenheim, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support.

Government is to provide 20 acres of land, in close proximity to the current United Nations logistics base Entebbe, to expand operations.

The government of Uganda also welcomes proposals by the UN in the global service delivery model to consolidate further, the Entebbe regional service center so that all peacekeeping, special political and other missions’ national staff and uniformed personnel are serviced out of Entebbe.

These remarks were made by State Minister for International Affairs, Okello Oryem, in a meeting with Ms. Lisa Buttenheim, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday April 28, 2017.

The Minister welcomed the ASG to Uganda and appreciated the support from the department of field support in the transformation of the regional service center Entebbe (RSCE), to what it is today.

He encouraged other senior members of the UN leadership to continue visiting the RSCE. He said that he is looking forward to a visit by the UN Secretary-General when he convenes the refugee solidarity conference in June of this year.

Emphasizing that government remains ready to strengthen collaboration with the UN, Oryem also commended the leadership of the RSCE and MONUSCO for remaining engaged with Uganda and encouraged that this continues.

He pledged the government’s commitment to provide support for its expansion of the RSCE.The government, he said, “will continue to give priority to security, infrastructure and other facilities and also mobilize the private sector to supply goods and services to the RSCE.

ASG Buttenheim applauded Uganda for its continued support for the missions in South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, emphasizing that the logistical requirements for the peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and in the DRC are heavy and that the expansion of its operations was timely.Ms. Buttenheim stressed that the Logistics hub at Entebbe is a vital link to more than just the neighboring countries.

Buttenheim expressed gratitude for Uganda’s continued commitment to excellent collaboration between the United Nations and the government of Uganda. She lauded plans to build the standard gauge railway, stating that the SGR completion, will increase the supply chain efficiencies for the logistics hub, given that rail transport is cheaper, safer and faster from the Mombasa coast than road transport.

 

 

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SA businessman to vie for presidency

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TO VIE FOR PRESIDENCY: Businessman and former ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa .

South African businessman Mathews Phosa said he accepted a nomination to stand as president of the ruling African National Congress.

Phosa will challenge Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former chairwoman of the African Union Commission, who are seen as the frontrunners to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party’s leader at a conference in December. Dlamini-Zuma is the president’s ex-wife.

Zuma is under pressure after Standard and Poor (S&P) Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings Ltd. responded to his firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan last month by cutting their assessments of South Africa’s international credit to junk. There have been growing calls for him to step down, and he faces a vote of no confidence in parliament that’s been postponed pending a court ruling.

“I think my movement is in a crisis, my country is in a crisis,” Phosa said by mobile phone on Sunday.

A lawyer, Phosa is a director at coal and platinum companies, and was previously treasurer general at the ANC. He was nominated by the ANC ward in Cape Town. The leader of the party will stand in the country’s general elections scheduled for 2019, with Zuma having served the maximum two terms allowed under the constitution.

 

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