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Rotary Uganda, Airtel to construct hospital, blood bank

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Badru Kasadah
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Airtel-Managing-Director-Anwar-Soussa-and-Rotary-Blood-Bank-Chairman-Emmanuel-Katongole-Airtel-staff-pose-for-a-photo-with-a-dummy-cheque-of-UGx-30million-they-handed-over-to-Rotary. Photo/Afuna Kasadha

Rotary Uganda teamed up with Mengo Hospital one and half years ago to build a Blood Bank and construct Rotary Hospital in Mukono.

However, Rotary is constrained funds, the reason it came up with an idea of a fundraising concert. In that effort it has been joined by Airtel Uganda as a Gold Sponsor. This announcement was made during a press conference held at the Airtel Uganda head offices in Kampala.

The fundraiser concert that will feature renowned South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela alongside Ugandan sax ace Isiah Katumwa, will also mark 60 years of Rotary in Uganda.

Ugandans require 360,000 litres of blood but only 260,000 litres is collected from the people each year.

In his speech Chairman Rotary Blood Bank fundraiser, Emmanuel Katongole, thanked Airtel Uganda for the service to its customers.

“We are extremely privileged that Airtel Uganda is joining Rotary in this campaign of finishing up the construction of a blood bank which will help our citizens. They are gold sponsors in the Rotary Blood Bank Fundraiser Concert this shows that Airtel Uganda is a conscious company for the need of humanity,” Mr Katongole said.

“We are inviting Ugandans to come work hand in hand with Rotary Uganda to operationalize this blood bank,” he added.

Airtel-Uganda-Managing-Director-Anwar-Soussa-gives-a-speech-during-the-press-conference-as-Chairman-Rotary-Blood-Bank-Emmanuel-Katongole-looks-on. Photo/Badru Kasadha. 

Speaking at the press conference, Airtel Uganda Managing Director Mr. Anwar Soussa reiterated the company’s promise to not only provide Ugandans with the best telecommunications solutions but also to initiate and support causes that impact their lives for the better.

“Airtel Uganda will contribute UGX 30million to the fundraising concert that has been organized to raise money for the Rotary Blood Bank at Mengo Hospital and Rotary Hospital Mukono,” Mr. Soussa said.

“Allow me to thank and congratulate Rotary Kampala who will be marking 60 years in the country for their daily, weekly, monthly and annual efforts that are geared towards the improvement of Ugandan lives,” he added.

The Rotary Blood Bank Fundraiser Concert will be held at the Kampala Serena Hotel on Sunday, February 26, 2017.

 

 

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Lukwago, Kampala division MPs arrested downtown

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Francisco Adongo
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ARRESTED: Lord mayor Erias Lukwago has rejected the forceful eviction of vendors from Park Yard.

Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has been arrested at the Park Yard shopping hub in downtown Kampala.

Police led by Kampala South Regional Police Commander Geoffrey Kahebwa says Lukwago, who was in the company of MPs Mubarak Munyagwa and Allan Sewanyana, was arrested for inciting traders in Park Yard against Kampala Minister Beti Kamya’s order to close the hub that has previously caught fire twice.

According to Lukwago, the business hub cannot be closed on ‘the orders of just one person, Beti Kamya’.

‘Park Yard market cannot be declared illegal by just one person, Minister Kamya’, Lukwago vowed.

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South Africa court rules against ICC withdrawal

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South African President Jacob Zuma

The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that government’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was ‘unconstitutional and invalid’.

Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo said President Jacob Zuma and the ministers of justice and international relations are ordered to withdraw the notice of withdrawal.

During the hearing in December Mojapelo told Jeremy Gauntlett, for Zuma and the ministers of justice and international relations, that the executive’s function was to seek public consultation.

He challenged Gauntlett’s argument that it was the executive’s prerogative to enter into, and withdraw from, treaties the country had signed and that Parliament only needed to give its approval.

“It’s expected that the executive go back to Parliament. We have rights, we have obligations, and we have Parliament,” he said, adding that decisions executed by the executive must be “on the basis of the expressed authority of the Constitution”.

Mojapelo said, if the authority was not expressed in the Constitution, it must go to Parliament.

Gauntlett asked the court to dismiss the DA’s case with costs.

In his rebuttal, Steven Budlender, for the DA, said the letter the executive had sent to Parliament contained no suggestion that the decision to withdraw from the ICC would be debated.

“It does not suggest that Parliament has to approve it. The effect is to bypass Parliament. It is simply telling Parliament for informational purposes,” Budlender told the court.

Budlender said it was irrational for the executive to unbind from the ICC because it had no alternative.

On October 21, Justice Minister Michael Masutha told reporters that South Africa had initiated the process of withdrawing from the ICC by notifying the United Nations of its intention to revoke its ratification of the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty. It would take a year for the decision to come into effect.

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ICC INDICTEE: Sudan President Omar al-Bashir

The decision followed several court judgments that the government violated the law by not arresting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his visit to South Africa for an African Union summit in June last year.

The ICC had issued warrants for his arrest and wanted him to stand trial on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

 

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Body of deceased Moroto Woman MP arrives tomorrow

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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BODY ARRIVES TOMORROW: Deceased Moroto Woman MP Annie Logiel

The body of the Moroto Woman Member of Parliament Annie Logiel arrives in the country tomorrow.

MP Logiel died last week in Denmark, where she had gone to seek treatment, and Parliament will on Friday hold a special sitting in her honour. Arrangements for her burial will be communicated, Parliament Director of Communication Chris Obore, said last week.

At the time of her death Ms Logiel was the Vice Chairperson of the Parliamentary Health Committee.

The death of MP Logiel in Denmark brought to four the number of senior Ugandan officials to die abroad since the Minister of Internal Affairs General Robert Aronda Nyakairima passed on in September 2015. Gen. Aronda was also a former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), who died in Dubai while on his way from South Korea where he had gone for official duties.

Others who have died while on duty abroad include Ambassador Najuna Njuneki, who died in Sweden in September 2016, and Dr Michael Odong, an assistant Commissioner in charge of Agro-chemicals in the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, who died at the Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands in October 2016.

 

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Tanzania warns foreigners over work permits

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EA SPIRIT? L-R Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni , Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuri and Rwandan President Paul Kagame interact shortly after a group photograph during the 17th Summit of the East African Community in Arusha, Tanzania on 2nd March 2016.

The Tanzanian government has given foreign employees, employers and employment agents 30-days to verify their work and residence documents.

The Labour Commissioner said the government had established that some employers and employment agents have been giving jobs to foreigners without adhering to the stipulated procedures.

A public notice issued by the Labour Commissioner says foreigners, employers and employment agents have been engaging in the malpractice, either intentionally or out of ignorance. The notice further warns that that constituted a violation of the Non-Citizen (Employment Regulations) Act No. 1/2015.

“We therefore call upon all non-citizens to submit their work permits to the nearest Labour Offices for verification within 30 days from the first date of this notice,” reads the notice.

According to the Labour Commissioner, the Prime Minister’s Office was the one mandated to regulate employment of non-citizens, a role which includes receiving, scrutinising and provision of work permits.

In the public notice, the government discloses that it will conduct a countrywide labour inspection specifically aimed at ensuring that all non-citizen employees possess valid work permits.

“Therefore, I am inviting employers and non-citizen employees working in the country to take part in this important exercise in order to avoid unnecessary inconveniences in future,” reads the public notice.

The government’s announcement comes a week after Immigration Officers in the region seized and detained 25 Indian nationals working with Quality Group, allegedly for living and engaging in employment in the country without the requisite permits.

 

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Jammeh top spies arrested

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ARRESTED: (L-R) Yankuba Badjie, the former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency and Ex Director of Operations Sheikh Omar Jeng

Yankuba Badjie, the former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency and the former Director of Operations Sheikh Omar Jeng, have been taken into custody.

Media sources in Gambia said the former NIA officers were arrested last night.

“I just want to tell you that Sheikh Omar Jeng and Yankuba Badjie are arrested since yesterday and I am very sure of the information, but still as a journalist can you make your findings,” the media quoted a source.

Another source was quoted saying the arrest of the duo was discussed shortly after the Finance Minister’s press conference. “I will not be surprised about the arrest of Yankuba Badjie. I was informed about their imminent arrest,” the source said.

 

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Azerbaijan’s leader appoints wife as his Vice President

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Mehriban can now rule Azerbaijan if her husband is incapacitated.

(BAKU, Azerbaijan) — Azerbaijan’s president on Tuesday appointed his wife as the first vice president of the ex-Soviet nation — the person next in line in the nation’s power hierarchy.

Ilham Aliyev, 55 named his wife Mehriban, 52, to the position created after a constitutional referendum in September. Mehriban, who married her husband when she was 19, graduated from a medical university. She has served previously as a lawmaker and headed a charity.

The Vice President takes over the country’s presidency if the president is unable to perform their duties, according to the constitution. It doesn’t describe the first vice president’s duties, but it’s expected that they will include overseeing the Cabinet.

Aliyev’s critics say the September referendum that also extended the presidential term from five to seven years effectively cemented a dynastic rule. In 2003, Aliyev succeeded his father, who had ruled Azerbaijan first as the Communist Party boss and then as a post-Soviet president for the greater part of three decades.

Aliyev and his wife have two daughters and a son. Aliyev has firmly allied the energy-rich Shiite Muslim nation with the West, helping secure his country’s energy and security interests and offset Russia’s influence in the strategic Caspian Sea region.

At the same time, his government has long faced criticism in the West for alleged human rights abuses and suppression of dissent.

Azerbaijan’s leader has cast himself as a guarantor of stability, an image that has a wide appeal in the country where painful memories are still fresh of the turmoil that accompanied the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

 

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Africa’s youngest billionaire Aahish Thakkar, splits with wife as his worth is revealed

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Ashish Thakkar

LONDON—A divorce-court judge ruled that entrepreneur Ashish Thakkar is the true owner of Mara Group, a private company he founded.

Mr. Thakkar and his wife of five years, Meera Manek, have split and are tussling over his assets. Mr. Thakkar has often been dubbed “Africa’s youngest billionaire” in media articles, though his actual wealth appears far smaller.

Mr. Thakkar had told the court his personal assets are worth less than $600,000 and that Mara Group was owned by his mother and one of his sisters. His wife disputed that, and the judge heard evidence two weeks ago from family members on the company’s ownership structure.

Justice Philip Moor determined that Mara Group, a holding company for technology, real-estate investments and company stakes, was run solely for Mr. Thakkar’s benefit. The judge didn’t assign any value to the company or indicate how it might be carved up in the divorce.

“He has not been running this business for the sole benefit of his mother and sister. That was a blatant lie,” the judge said in the ruling.

The decision was reached Feb. 10 but made public by the court on Tuesday.

Mr. Thakkar, a British citizen who lives in Dubai, dropped out of school at 15 to sell computer parts across Africa and over 20 years built Mara Group, a holding company whose value isn’t publicly disclosed. Mr. Thakkar, 35, says the “youngest billionaire” description was never accurate.

A Wall Street Journal examination shows that Mara Group has investments and assets worth about $30 million.

Mr. Thakkar and Ms. Manek separated in 2013. They don’t have any children.

Last month, the Journal reported on a series of setbacks for Mr. Thakkar and Mara Group, including problems raising financing for some of its projects and questions by investors over the group’s size and scope.

Mr. Thakkar regularly says Mara Group employs 11,000 people in 25 countries. The figures include companies where Mara Group or Mr.Thakkar hold minority stakes or board seats, such as at Atlas Mara Ltd., the African banking group he co-founded with former Barclays PLC Chief Executive Bob Diamond. Mr. Thakkar has a 0.3% share of the company.

Asked by Justice Moor during the hearing why he wan’t entitled to an ownership stake in Mara, Mr. Thakkar said: “I’ve never been motivated by the wealth factor.”

 

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‘Security operative’ slaps, draws gun at ‘American tourist’

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Badru Kasadah
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The Toyota Premio that was knocked by the White lady

A gun-wielding man has this evening slapped and pulled out a pistol on an American lady said to be a tourist.

The incident took place along Parliament Avenue, opposite IPS Building, after the white lady said to be an American, accidently knocked the car of a man whose identity is still unknown.

According to eye witnesses, when the lady knocked the car, a Toyota Premio Reg. No. UAW 763J, she came out to establish the extent of the damage.

However, the eyewitness, a one Wilfred Busingye said a guy seated in the co-driver’s seat in the knocked car came out, slapped the Muzungu lady and pulled out a pistol to shoot her.

“Terrified, the Muzungu shouted, which attracted the attention of her colleagues who had remained in her car. Police officers rushed to the scene from Ministry of ICT Building, the gun man jumped on a boda and sped off. The vehicle has minor scratches,” Mr. Busingye, who witnessed the incident, posted on his Facebook page.

Contacted, Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Emilian Kayima said the matter had not been brought to the attention of police.

“It has not come to me, let them report to police and then we shall investigate. But the matter hasnt been brought to us then we cant help,” Mr Kayima said on phone.

Many other people who took to social media said the incident reignites debate about reckless gun-wielding Ugandans, and also draws parallels with the murder of child activist, Kenneth Akena, who was allegedly shot by one Mathew Kanyamunyu.

 

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Man crunches ‘tooth’ at KFC

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Agencies
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The 'tooth' that was allegedly crunched by Mr Kush Wilson

A KFC diner claims he was left ‘traumatised’ after finding a ‘child’s tooth’ inside his chips.

Kush Wilson had just taken a bite into his dinner when he felt “something crunch in his mouth”.

The 49-year-old “immediately spat it out and soon realised it looked like a tooth”, the media reported.

Kush, who was with his son Zakke, 25, and nephew, Kristian, was eating out at the KFC in Church Street, Croydon, on Saturday evening.

KFC denied it was a tooth and offered Kush a full refund.

Nephew Kristian, 31, said: “My uncle was eating his chips when we heard the crunch.

“It was absolutely disgusting. It looked deep-fried, like it had been cooked inside the chip.

“My uncle is traumatised by it.”

He added: “It wasn’t even an adult’s tooth. I’ve got a five-year-old and it’s a about the same size as his teeth.”

KFC denied it was a tooth and offered Kush a full refund. A KFC spokesperson said: “We take food safety very seriously, so were shocked to hear about this. It’s extremely unlikely that this object is a tooth, but as the customer has kept it, we’ve not been able to test it yet.

“We immediately offered Kush a full refund and replacement meals to say sorry for his experience. We’d like to reassure KFC fans that this hasn’t happened before at this restaurant, which has the highest possible 5 out of 5 rating.”

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