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UK deploys peacekeepers to South Sudan

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Agencies
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READY FOR DEPLOYMENT: UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon meets with members of 16 Air Assault Brigade

UK Defence Secretary has met the British Army’s high-readiness paratroopers who are preparing to serve on a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

During a visit to Merville Barracks at Colchester Garrison, Michael Fallon met members of 16 Air Assault Brigade who will join UK personnel already in central Africa.

Part of 16 Medical Regiment, the troops will travel to South Sudan with a squash-court sized specialist field hospital which can be dropped by parachute and used for emergency surgery.

In September, the Defence Secretary announced that up to one hundred extra UK personnel would join the peacekeeping mission, adding to 300 announced under the previous Government.

When all of the troops have arrived, the deployment will more than double the UK’s global peacekeeping efforts.

“Britain is committed to tackling the instability that leads to mass migration and terrorism. This deployment shows how Britain is stepping up its global commitments – in the interests of humanity but also because it makes Britain and the world a safer place,” Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.

During his visit Mr Fallon also met around 100 members of 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment. He witnessed casualty treatment drills and saw the field hospital that will be transported to South Sudan.

“British Airborne Forces possess unique qualities. Elements of our Brigade are at very high readiness here in case of a global crisis, we’re preparing for deployments with the UN to South Sudan, we’re deployed on operations in Kabul, and we are engaged with allies in the Middle East to help develop their capabilities in the face of the Daesh threat,” the Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, Brigadier Colin Weir, said.

16 Air Assault Brigade is the Army’s very high readiness brigade which can be sent on operations at long range by parachute, aeroplane and helicopter.

Jointly with French counterparts it forms the airborne element of the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force, the bilateral force the UK and France have developed.

The brigade is also partnered with the US 82nd Airborne Division as part of the US global response force.
Backed by a defence budget rising in real terms for the rest of this Parliament, the UK is meeting the NATO 2% defence spending target.

 

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WBS TV’s Luzze quits, protests charging musicians for TV appearances

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Badru Kasadah
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QUIT: WBS TV presenter MC Anderson Luzze has quit the station

WBS TV’s ‘Morning Flavor’ presenter, MC Anderson Luzze has followed the same path taken by his colleagues Straka Mwezi and Charles Oyimuke, and quit the station.

According to MC Luzze, the current management did not ‘understand’ him.

“Its been 5 years working with WBS TV thanks to Sir Gordon Wavamuno who hired me personally. He was a great man who understood me personally, can never forget programmes manager Justine Nakuya ..am soooooo sorry that I could not cope up with the new management,” he announced to his fans through Facebook.

“(The new management) didn’t understand what I was doing than doing. yes.. fine I introduced gossip or so called lugambo on TV but people need to have the mature part of entertainment ..,” he added.

He says he would go where his work is appreciated, before taking a swipe at the management for charging artistes ‘appearance fees’.

“Thanks friends for watching all this time … the artists (sic) who came wen I called you till the new management started collecting money from u …I hear 100k, 200k to 500k. I just loved what you were doing and it was all not about the money but you had good music …thanks for the talent we got that time.”

Luzze is the third biggest name to leave the station since URA took over the Naguru-based TV station after it failed to clear its tax arrears.

The other two are its pioneer presenters, Charles Oyimuke, who relocated to the UK and Straka, who recently joined Biliv Tv.

 

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Ruhindi, Galiwango names emerge in race for EC top job

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Francisco Adongo
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TOP CONTENDER FOR IEC JOB? Former Attorney General Fred Ruhindi

Recent reports indicate that former Minister of Justice and Attorney General Fredrick Ruhindi and the National Resistance Movement Administrative Secretary Hassan Galiwango are reportedly the top contenders to replace Badru Kiggundu at the Independent Electoral Commission.

Kiggundu’s term at the IEC ends this month and efforts to confirm whether Ruhindi or Galiwango would scoop the IEC job were, by press time, futile.

This is not the first time Ruhindi’s name has been linked to top jobs in the public sector and mid this year a source intimated to the EagleOnline that the former Nakawa MP had been selected by the President for the IEC job.

Later other sources linked him to the chairmanship of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), but this development was overtaken by events when High Court Judge Justice Benjamin Kabiito was named to head the JSC.

Also, other reports had indicated that Ruhindi was set to replace Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) boss Jennifer Musisi as the Executive Director.

The soft-spoken Ruhindi lost the Nakawa seat to Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Michael Kabaziguruka, and has since then withdrawn to private life. A lawyer by profession, Ruhindi served as minister for 10 years.

Meanwhile, little is known about Mr Galiwango but NRM sources say over the years he has served the party in various capacities.

 

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Makerere students strike, as lecturers stay away from class

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Francisco Adongo
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DEADLY ENGAGEMENT: Police anti-riot trucks in action at Makerere to quell a strike by students.

There is tension at Makerere University as students engage police in running battles around campus and its environs in Kikoni.

Yesterday the students began the strike after they complained that the lecturers had abdicated their responsibility of teaching. This came in the wake of the lecturers turning to industrial action, with claims that they had not been paid their allowances, collectively amounting to billions of shillings.

However, a section of students that was earlier camped at the Main Hall, believes the lecturers are well-paid and should be in the lecture rooms.

By press time it was not possible to get comment from the university authorities but a source close to the administration told EagleOnline that the Vice Chancellor Prof John Ddumba had convened a meeting to try and find a solution to the standoff.

Strikes at Makerere University are commonplace and early last month activities came to a standstill after students went on strike a day apiece, after the University Council rejected their plea to scrap the fees payment policy.

The policy had dictated that students pay 100% of the tuition fees by the sixth week.

 

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US extends Sudan sanctions

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Agencies
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US President Barack Obama.

President Barak Obama has extended sanctions against Sudan for another year, saying the actions and policies of Khartoum that led to the sanctions continue to pose a threat to US national security and foreign policy.

Obama’s order maintains several sets of US sanctions imposed in November 1997 which restrict US trade and investment with Sudan and block government’s assets of the Sudanese government. It also includes additional sanctions in relations with the conflict in Darfur region introduced by two Executive Orders in 2006.

In a letter to the US Congress speakers Obama pointed to the executive orders of November 3 1997, April 26, and October 13, 2006 saying the crisis constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Sudan that triggered these decisions has not been resolved.

“These actions and policies continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” he further emphasized.

On 21 September 2016, the Department of State welcomed Sudanese government efforts to combat terrorism and its increased cooperation with Washington.

“While countering terrorism is an important objective for the United States, we continue to engage the Government of Sudan on protecting human rights, resolving internal conflicts, addressing humanitarian needs, improving regional stability, and advancing political freedoms, accountability and reconciliation,” further said the statement.

However, the Department of State in a separate statement minimized the renewal of sanctions saying it is ‘a technical decision and part of a routine, annual process that does not prejudice the ability of the President to provide sanctions relief at any point in the future’.

It further reiterated Washington’s commitment to continued high level policy engagement with Sudan saying that the American administration ‘has been quite clear with the Government of Sudan on the steps that need to be taken to secure economic sanctions relief’.

Sudanese officials had recently expressed hopes that before the end of his second term President Obama would lift the sanctions on the African country saying Washington is convinced of its inefficiency and that it harms ordinary Sudanese.

 

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Is police using Besigye siege to justify their budget?

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Editorial
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JUSTIFIED POLICE ACTION? Dr Besigye being manhandled by police officers

Events of yesterday October 31, 2016 that happened at the home of former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye in Kasangati left the nation shocked.

Indeed, these are some of the issues the opposition and more so Dr. Besigye has complained about for a long time as harassment and infringing on his personal rights and property. For what could explain the police’s continued harassment of Besigye? Why arrest his visitors? Ugandans are beginning to think that the continued harassment of the four-time presidential contestant is actually a justification of a huge police operation budget.

Whereas the police operations budget has over the last years kept on increasing, there has never been a reduction in the crime rate to justify the increase. But what is evident is that the whole operations department seems to have learnt only one thing: trail Besigye and camp at his home and that is enough to justify that the whole department is working!

Uganda is big enough for us all to live but events like that of yesterday, where a former presidential candidate is beaten and harassed by crime preventers doesn’t seem to be good for our country.

Yes, police have the mandate to detect, prevent and arrest anybody but this has to be done with justifiable reason. Irritatingly, statements made by Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Andrew Felix Kaweesi are more like those made by ‘Chemical Ali’ during Saddam Hussein’s regime; the man kept on threatening to crush America if it attacked Iraq. However, time proved him otherwise and the rest is all history!

Back to police. What right do they have arrest someone’s peaceful visitors?

What justifiable reason does police have to block Besigye from travelling in his country? And, who knew whether Besigye was indeed going to inspect him farm or going to go about his personal business in town?

Police would have had a justified answer had they left Besigye to leave his home and stormed the streets or any market to cause ‘havoc’ like they have done before. Indeed, police ought to learn that they are the ones making Besigye ‘an issue’ because the last time he returned from abroad and landed at Entebbe without police deployment, there was no fracas.

The question then is: why the chaos when police deploys or follows Besigye? Have police authorities seen fingers being pointed at the military police or the army? The reason is that they have stuck  to their professional code of conduct.

That said, events like these are a reminder that antagonism is still alive with us. Otherwise, who knows what Besigye could become tomorrow? And, what then will happen to his tormentors? The police should remember that Yoweri Museveni was once harassed and even arrested by the army as he fought to liberate Uganda. Today, Museveni is the President but his oppressors were lucky in that they found a forgiving leader otherwise had he sought to revenge those that harassed him would all be history!

We have had enough as a country and with the little we have achieved, we ought to tread carefully because police seem to be on a mission only known to them.

For God and Our Country

 

 

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Museveni returns to Luwero to launch another war

By
Isaiah Mwebaze
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Having fought a successful five year war in Luwero district that brought him to power in 1986, President Yoweri Museveni has returned to the same area to launch another war on poverty.

However, whether this fight will succeed is yet another story to tell.

Museveni started his day earlier today at 9 am with a trip to his pond to fetch water for drip irrigation at his new farm in Kawumu, Luwero district, emphasizing households can avert drought and hunger if they looked after their gardens better and also engaged in cost effective enterprise selection.

Museveni dressed in a yellow shirt, khaki trousers and army green boots walked for about a kilometer to a pond at the new farm to draw the water before walking uphill again to his new one acre banana garden where he planted and used plastic water bottles to drip irrigate the new plants.

The garden has 400 banana suckers that are drought and disease resistant. He later did the same for his coffee garden of 400 seedlings, planting and watering them before urging the technical staff to sensitize Ugandans on the process and importance of irrigation and mulching for better yields.

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“You should develop a user friendly manual that households can use to water, mulch and look after their crops better. This will help mitigate the harsh climate,” he said.

Museveni said his tour was aimed at sensitizing the local communities on best practices to fight poverty. He also wanted to assess the impact of beneficiaries of seedlings under Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) campaigns, the needs to the various communities and their challenges in order to find long-term solutions.

The President who is in Luwero on a campaign to eradicate household poverty in the rural areas is also doing door-to-door spot visits, talking to the communities about fighting poverty, challenges and what can be done to solve the issues. After the hands on exercise at his farm, Museveni made an impromptu visit to various homes in Namayamba, Makulubita in Luwero district about 25 kilometers away. He visited the homes of Mzee John Ssalongo Nsubuga, Mzee Abbas Kasolo, Herbert Miiro and Samson Muwonge where he toured coffee plantations and some of the valleys that used to have swamps.

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“Our aim is to ensure that every household has land and implements like seedlings for food and cash. After that we shall look at issues like access to water for production, including using solar pumps, community dams and fertilizer’s,” he said.

He also experienced firsthand, the effects of the long drought. Museveni however noted that the swamps in the valleys that used to supply water to the community had dried up due to encroachment. He urged local leaders to sensitize the communities on the dangers of cultivating in swamps. He said government will invest in water dams that can provide water for production during dry spells.

He is accompanied by Ministers for Luwero Triangle Dennis Galabuzi Ssozi, Without Portfolio HajJi Abdul Nadduli and technical staff from Ministry of Agriculture and State House.

 

 

 

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Coca-Cola fulfills Shs1.5bn pledge to equip hospitals

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Our Reporter and Agencies
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Rt. Hon Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Parliament, officially hands over the medical equipment to Kamuli hospital officials. Immediate right is CBC's Martha Munnu Omer.

Coca-Cola Beverage Africa has finally fulfilled its pledge to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.
Over the weekend, the soft drinks giants in partnership with Medshare International delivered vital medical supplies worth Sh1.4 billion ($ 417,093) to Kamuli Hospital, as earlier promised by Kadaga.

Kadaga, who was the guest of honour at the hand over of the equipment, made the request to Coca-Cola in 2014. The agreement to secure the equipment was between Medshare, Coca-Cola and the Ministry of Health together with the Office of the Speaker of Parliament. It was to deliver medical equipment to hospitals in Kamuli, Kakuuto and Kalangala.

“The private sector has a vital role to play in the development of our country. When we come together, we can develop our communities a sector at a time. Today, the health sector in Kamuli has received hi-tech medical equipment, thanks to Medshare who donated this equipment and CCBA who covered the costs and handled all the logistics,” she said.

“By harnessing the power of this coalition to get life-saving medicines to the people that need them most, we can help to bend the curve and accelerate reductions in child and maternal deaths,” she added.

With a focus on maternal health and infant care, CCBA delivered machines such as fetal scanners, infant warmers, delivery beds, an electrical surgery unit, an anesthetic unit, an oxygen concentrator, lab equipment, wheel chairs and many others. They also renovated the maternity and pediatric wards of the hospital.

Speaking at the handover ceremony in Kamuli, the CCBA Uganda Human Resource Director, Martha Munnu Omer said: “We know that our business can only be as strong as the communities we serve, and we’re honored that we could use our expertise to improve the distribution of medicine and medical supplies.  This project has been a great and growing success so far, and we look forward to working with our partners to improve lives across more communities in Uganda, and Africa at large.”

She added that CCBA is privileged to be able to help more people enjoy better access to life-sustaining and life-enhancing medical facilities.

Sarah Opendi, the State Minister for Health applauded CCBA for the initiative and called upon the district leaders to ensure that the equipment is put to good use.

“This donation of medical equipment is an excellent example of partners coming together to develop an innovative solution that provides access to critical medicines and medical supplies in remote Ugandan communities,” she said.

Commenting about this initiative, Nell Diallo, the Vice President – Corporate & International Relations at Medshare International said: “….as a global community, we have set ambitious goals of ending preventable child and maternal deaths and creating an AIDS-free generation.”

 

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MP Nsereko bashed over Kato Lubwama’s academic papers

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Badru Kasadah
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SOLIDARITY: MP Muhammad Nsereko and his Lubaga South counterpart Kato Lubwama.

Kato Lubwama has appeared in court today to answer to a case in which he is accused of not having the requisite academic qualifications to be a Member of Parliament.

But before he appeared in court, his close friend, Muhammad Nsereko, the Kampala Central MP had a few words for him, assuring him of his support.

“Dear comrade Kato Lubwama, just know you will never walk alone . Am with you all the way no matter what. I know all those that are trying to fight you know they can’t defeat you in the ballot. Just know brother that we shall always stand by you no matter the situation.

The youth and the elderly shall all stand with you. Solida NAMUTIMA,” he wrote today morning on Facebook.

However, the same words have landed him a public lashing.

Below are some of the reaction from the public:

Jjemba Abdul Nassibu It’s Kato fighting himself. The issue isn’t about popularity. It’s all about qualification. Nsereko you better help your kibi to verify his papers than saying that he is being fought. Is he the only MP being sued for papers? Over 70 MPs were sued. My comrade we should stop this stupid hooligan reasoning.

Badde GoForward Ignicious this isn’t about Muhammad Nsereko being with him all the way. It’s about presenting evidence that the guy saw enough blackboards required for him to be in Parliament. It’s a pity for Muhammad Nsereko to continuously insinuate that Dr. Besigye and FDC are fighting him. Surely, Nsereko you’re very small fish to compare yourself to Besigye who is a whale in the sea.

Isaac Businge It’s saddening that you have put yourself self on the frontline over this issue. Let your friend prove his critics wrong…..this is a moment of proving self worth. What if the outcome is otherwise from what think? You need to protect your credibility and integrity from such smoky environments…….Kato Lubwama is not an ambassador for the youth and elderly as you want us to believe, he is a self seeker (he put it in black n white a while back). Let him stand up to his feet m prove his worth.

Badde GoForward Ignicious in relation to a human body, Muhammad Nsereko is a fingernail and Besigye is the whole human body. Ths nonsense of Nsereko running on tv n radio station insinuating dat Besigye and his FDC is fighting hm shd stop. You are MP material of just Kampala but Besigye is a president material of d whole Uganda.

Nassozi Lilian Ntambi Kato was voted on compromise Hajji because we knew he could do a lot of nothing while in parliament but him going on tv and start dissing pipo because we voted him was the least expected…stop thinking that FDC is in this or whatever just know pipo in Rubaga aren’t happy wt him.

Robert Riyales I can’t imagine nsereko defending this hooligan in the name of#Kato_Lubwama

Have always held alot of respect for this fella nsereko. First of all lubwama yayagalwa nyo abalonzi naye bwe yatuuka mu palyamenti neyeyononera erinya hardly a month or two. Kati the likes of Nsereko to come up n defend such a person defeats my undstandg.

 

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Gareth Onyango accused of child neglect

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Badru Kasadah
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FATHER AND DAUGHTER: Gareth Onyango

Gareth Onyango, the manager at Cayenne Bar and Restaurant is popularly known for putting his love life in public.

The sad bit about all his public show for affection is, Onyango, a former manager at Club Rouge and Club Venom, hates taking care of the results from the affection if we are to go by a recent revelation.

City party animal, Shantal Ruby, a close friend of Gareth’s ex, Natasha Sally has scoffed at Gareth for neglecting his daughter Leona, sired with Natasha.

Shantal alleges that Gareth has neglected his daughter since birth; apparently, he has completely refused to take care of the daughter despite living a lavish lifestyle with his current girlfriend, Nikita Bachu.

“You always complain ati (that) your father was never there for you, so who are you there for? Natasha called you recently, your daughter was sick, you only blocked her. You and I both know your money tayagala, it’s why another man is looking after Leona,” Shantal fumed at the weekend through social media.

“She only wanted you to care. Of all the seven yrs, wakola ki (what did you do?)? Not even a gift. You can’t be a good father to one child, and an assshole to the other. How dare your daughter wants to talk to you when she’s sick and you just block the mama?”

Her comments came shortly after Gareth shared photographs on social media, celebrating the fourth birthday of his daughter with Nikita, Kylie.

“Someone will ask why I care, you know why I care. Natasha and Leona are my babies. You have tried to manipulate them, but love, true love is not bought … (You’re) Just a social climber! If another man can look after your daughter, you ain’t no man!! Pretense always ends!!”

 

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