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Gov’t to procure new cancer equipment from world best medical facility -Museveni

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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President Museveni welcomes his visitor, Andrew Whitman, the Vice President of Virian Medical Systems in the United States during a meeting in New York yesterday September 22. PPU-photo

President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda will pay for new cancer radiotherapy equipment.

Museveni also revealed that government will also provide a grant to Varian Medical Systems global government to train young Ugandan professionals in cancer and oncology treatment.

Mr Museveni said this while meeting Mr. Andrew Whitman the Vice President of Varian Medical Systems Global Government, the leading company in cancer and oncology radiation and cancer treatment equipment worldwide.

The meeting was also attended by Dr. Diana Atwine, the director of the health monitoring unit of State House.

Varian Medical Systems are the world’s leading manufacturers of radiotherapy and radio surgical devices and software treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy and brachytherapy

“Uganda will pay for the cancer machines and also provide a grant to Varian Medical Systems to train young Uganda professionals on their use. What is important is to recruit young people and send them on government sponsorship for bio-medical training,” he said.

The President was responding to a proposal by Mr. Whitman on how to finance and procure such equipment, which he said is very capital intensive.

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He congratulated President Museveni for rehabilitating and equipping the cancer institute at Mulago Hospital to deal with the increasing cases of cancer.

According to the Fred Hutchinson cancer research center at Mulago Hospital, Uganda with a population of over 37 million people has one of the highest rates of cancer in the world. The two hardest hit groups are children under the age of 12 and middle-aged adults.

Museveni revelation come at time when the country’s only machine at Cancer Institute isn’t operating and thus, cancer patients are left no option but left to die.

More than 60 per cent of cancer deaths occur in developing countries.

According to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, exact figures for cervical cancer rates are unclear, but an WHO/ICO report published last year estimated that 1,932 women in Ugandan die of cervical cancer each year, and more than 2,400 are diagnosed with the disease. Cervical cancer is the biggest cancer killer among women in the country. And with 40 cases per 100,000 women, Uganda has one of the highest burdens of cervical cancer cases worldwide.

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Uganda urgently needs renewable energy – Museveni

By
Shawn Davis Kawalya
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President Museveni shares a light moment with Steve Gilchrist (L) president of Polaris Capital power company in Canada. Looking on is Amb. Kananathan and Feizhen Lu, director of Capital Powers during a meeting in New York yesterday. PPU-photo.

Uganda urgently needs affordable renewable energy to ensure access to all, especially for rural communities, President Museveni has said.

“Uganda urgently needs renewable energy. We have been talking about having a plant operational in all the major towns. We shall look at all options including direct investments and through bidding for this to happen,” he said.

The president was meeting a team from Polaris Capital Power led by its President Steve Gilchrist and a Director Feizhen Lu. Polaris Infrastructure is a Toronto-based company engaged in the operation, acquisition and development of renewable energy projects in 180 countries around the world.

The company is interested in investing in waste management for energy production at landfills in the main cities especially, Kampala.

Gilchrist, a former Member of Parliament in Canada said his company is willing to invest over US$ 70million in renewable energy projects that will create over 45,000 jobs. He said their aim is that after 20 years of well-grounded production, government takes over the projects.

Gilchrist developed a company which has worked with governments in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia to raise awareness of biomass-to-energy power generation opportunities, including a proposed waste-to-energy facility in Ghana and an advanced recycling technology for municipalities in Canada.

 

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Ganda Boys: Musicians fighting poverty, poor health & unemployment in Uganda

By
Badru Kasadah
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NO MORE SINGING ABOUT LADIES: The Ganda Boys pause for a photo with one of their development partners.Photo/worldpeaceone.com

Ugandan singing duo, Da Twinz, comprising of singers Denis Mugagga and Dan Sewagudde were once the biggest group from Uganda with songs like Ndeku, Midomo, Nafunye among others. Though, ask for some of their latest songs and you will hardly get any answer!

Majority of Ugandans think the group stopped recording songs but they are wrong. The duo re-branded to Ganda Boys in 2008 and even changed the direction of their music.

The group is no longer into singing about ladies, money and booze but it has rather switched to music dedicated towards making a difference in the lives of the people of Uganda and other disenfranchised populations around the world.

In fact, their song ‘Forgotten People’ has been nominated in the Independent Music Awards.
Through a mail interview with Eagle Online, the duo opened up on their new musical direction and their foundation, on which more focus has been dedicated to.

What are you doing currently?

“The first step is empowering people through education. United Earth Education and Communities connect the infrastructure, buildings, and environment in our communities with education through community-based projects. Ugandans who want to create projects in their villages are supported through education, mentoring and resources.”

Secondly, by creating and building projects in villages and communities is part of each core course, and students get credit both when they are in the field or in the classroom.

What kind of projects do you undertake?

“The projects will come from the minds of students and the residents of Uganda cities and villages. However, to get started and to focus some students, the following projects are proposed for initial implementation. After identifying villages and schools that have students with basic literacy skills and access to online information, students will be recruited to create a Ugandan Youth News Service. Students will be trained in finding information, Communicating clearly, and creating print and graphic materials. Students could also be mentored by local teachers and journalists.

They also aim at ensuring girls stay in school. In Uganda, because of lack of access to hygiene materials for menstruation, 40 per cent of schoolgirls miss up to 5 schooldays a month or 30 per cent of the school year leading to lower performance and a high dropout rate. Girls who drop out are more likely to get pregnant, die in childbirth, and be unable to provide basic needs for their children. 

Do you have partners for these projects?

We are partnering with organizations already working in Uganda, United Earth will increase access to information, simple and sustainable materials, and help to decrease and reverse the shame and ridicule that often comes from menstruation.”

Their foundation further aims at fighting poverty among Ugandans, especially those living in villages.

Poverty robs Uganda of its vast human potential. As people struggle to survive, they are unable to have the time and resources to get educated, build robust cultural arts programs, or create innovative solutions to help their community. Using micro-financing, United Earth could target women who have a business idea but lack either the skills and/or the equipment to implement it. Courses can be made available in one of the other programs, and capital can be provided by micro-financing.

How are you handling the health aspect?

On health, we intend to provide better access to water for hospitals. Lack of access to clean and close water costs Uganda in productivity and leads to disease, lack of education, hunger, poverty, and death. United Earth uses technologies as varied as bikes that help to transport and filtrate water to water baskets that gather condensation to satellite images that show subterranean near-surface water for drilling wells. Kawolo hospital is an early candidate, but further work with the Ugandan government and hospitals will help to identify the best candidates who can utilize the UE technical insights based on population, infrastructure, and geo-location.

Meanwhile, on their music, the Ganda Boys have been nominated in the Independent Music Awards and can be voted for through this link http://fans.independentmusicawards.com/artists/ganda-boys/)

 

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Zari to Ivan Semwanga: I am sorry

By
Badru Kasadah
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SORRY: Socialite Zari Hussein apologised to ex boyfriend Ivan Semwanga

Zari’s husband, Tanzanian musician Diamond Platnumz came out yesterday and attacked the former’s ex, Ivan Semwanga.

He scoffed at the South Africa-based Ugandan socialite of bragging about what he can’t afford. One of his allegations was, Semwanga was stil renting and treating his kids to a bad life.

However, this had come to an end after he (Platnumz) bought a house in South Africa.

“They are busy bragging themselves that they are Rich while their kids (are) staying the in the Renting (rented) House… and now a person which they are daily abusing and saying that he’s broke & Poor Bought a House, so that their Kids can have a better life, as they always wish on Social Media….. ” he writes on social media.

But hours after the post, Zari was quick to apologise to her ex. This is after her efforts to make Diamond delete the post failed.

“I don’t think you believe I could tell him to post such nonsense knowing the kids will see it. When they called me this morning, I knew in fact I even thought they will call last night. The post wasn’t necessary and I told him to delete but he kept saying you (Semwanga) and King abused him etc. I said those things are old everyone has move on,” Zari pleads with Semwanga in one of the screenshots that the latter has shared with media.

“He even asks me why I am telling him to delete when I didn’t tell you guys to delete. I said that’s not the issue now. That’s in the past and the kids will hate you for the rest of their life…..What am trying to say am so sorry to you, to the boys and everyone I had nothing to do with this post. I would never allow such no sense knowing it’s going to affect my kids. NEVER. Am very sorry..deep you know me. I can’t side with this at all. Am so Sorry Ivan.”

 

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I will not pick medal – Matembe

By
Peter Etiang
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NO MEDAL: Political activist Miria Matembe says she will not pick her medal.

Outspoken political activist Miria Matembe has vowed not to pick her medal, one of those to be awarded to all Uganda’s MPs since Independence in 1962.

Dr Matembe, who was appearing on the NBS TV show the ‘Frontline’, said the awards are diversionary, and not going to be given in good faith.

‘I cannot be badly robbed and then easily appeased by a copper medal. I will not pick it,’ Matembe, who served for two terms as Woman MP for Mbarara, said.

Dr Matembe also served as Minister of Ethics between 1998 and 2003, but fell out with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) after the party’s MPs sought the removal of term limits to allow President Yoweri Museveni contest for the presidency.

Since then Dr Matembe has been a strong critic of the NRM, denouncing most of its policies at any opportune moment.

Others who fell out with Dr Matembe included among others former First Deputy Prime Minister Eriya Kategaya (RIP) and former Army Commander and current opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Major General John Gregory Mugisha Muntu.

 

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Spare Chris Obore the ignominy of the MPs

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Editorial
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Mr. Chris Obore

Since the Members of Parliament decided to tell Ugandans that they want fuel guzzlers worth Shs 200 million and further, that they want their burial expenses footed at the expense of the taxpayer to the tune of Shs68 million, hostile tonnes have been written and said about our Parliament.

Perhaps, one can understand the fury with which Ugandans reacted to the news, given that Uganda is a low-developed country that can ill-afford seemingly wasteful voyages that seem to be destined for nowhere, but designed only to benefit a few.

But that said, in all the ensuing tirades that followed the two announcements, the one person who has been a victim of the wrath happens to be Chris Obore, the Communications Director of Parliament. Certainly, for those conversant with media practice, Obore is no stranger to prudent behavior, the hallmark of any journalist worth his/her salt.

With a rich background in both electronic and print media, Obore is a widely known Ugandan of good standing who, like any other person employed in the public sector, ekes out a living providing services that are supposed to impact positively on society as a whole.

Of course, most people were first endeared to Obore as he plied his trade in the media, where his record on matters national was undisputed.

It is against such a noble background that he first made the shortlist of a very competitive opening in the public sector and eventually emerged the best preferred person for the job, this notwithstanding his past.

It is imperative to note that employers are always on the lookout for those who are knowledgeable about the template workings and are intent at making their ventures better and as such have over the years set what has come to be known as ‘Terms of Reference’. It is these ToRs that prescribe the calibre of the sought employee, the nature of work he/she is to carry out, and the expectations of the employer.

So, in the case of Mr Obore, he satisfied his employer, the Parliament of Uganda, and that is how he got his job which, for all intent and purpose, is to ensure the image of Parliament is maintained appealingly to the populace.

Indeed, one would fault him if he failed in that endeavor! But alas, the populace has turned its guns against him, unwittingly seeming to suggest that he carries the proverbial ‘cross’ the MPs are supposed to carry.

Intriguingly however, we are quick to forget that we are the ones who elect these representatives, and so we carry an even bigger blame than that we want to apportion to Mr Obore.

Unfortunately, the wanton apportioning of blame if not checked, can derail the work ethic of a dedicated public servant like Mr Obore whose only ‘mistake’ seems to be the pursuit of satisfying the terms of his employment contract that entails service to the people of Uganda!

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Fally Ipupa here in December

By
Badru Kasadah
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COMING ! Renowned Congolese popstar Fally Ipupa

Renowned Congolese popstar Fally Ipupa will finally be in the country this December.

International events promoter, Aly Allibhai had tried to bring the multi-award winning artiste last year but the deal failed.

However, EagleOnline can reveal that the ‘Original’ hitmaker will be here in December thanks to Nile Breweries. He has been lined up among the performers at Club Mega Fest, Arua.
Apparently, the needed paperwork is done and all that is left is waiting for December. Adverts promoting the fete are set to begin running soon, the sponsors say.

The 39-year-old singer was a member of Koffi Olomidé’s Quartier Latin International band from 1999 until 2006.

His first solo album was Droit Chemin released in 2006, which went on to sell over 100,000 units, and his second album Arsenal de Belles Melodies (A2BM) was released in 2009. In 2007, Ipupa won the Kora Awards for Best Artiste or Group from Central Africa.

In 2010, Fally Ipupa won the MTV Africa Music Awards 2010 for Best Video (for Sexy Dance) and Best Francophone Artiste. He won the urban awards for best African artiste.
Ipupa was nominated in the Best Live Act category at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2014. He released an album named Power ‘Kosa Leka’ in 2011.

 

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Africa fronts Zimbabwean for WTO top job

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Agencies
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Dr Walter Mzembi, Zimbabwe’s Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister,

African nations have nominated a Zimbabwean, Dr Walter Mzembi, as their candidate to become the new head of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UN – WTO).

Should Mzembi get this post, it will be the first time in the organisation’s 43-year history that an African would head the organisation.
Speaking during the UN General Assembly in New York, Africa’s longest-serving tourism minister said that he was humbled and privileged to have been chosen by the Government of Zimbabwe, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU) as the continent’s candidate.
“Since the establishment of the UN -WTO in 1974, no African has ever become its Secretary General. Almost all the geographical areas of the world have produced a secretary-general, except Africa. In fact in 42 years, three secretaries-general have come from Europe, while one each has come from the Americas and Asia. I am therefore delighted to be representing my region as the continent’s united candidate”.
If elected, Mzembi will come on board in 2017, during the “International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development”.

Globally, he said that his plan would be to align the three tourism-specific Sustainable Development Goals on ‘decent work and economic growth’; ‘responsible consumption and production’; and ‘life below water’. Regionally, he said that he would further embed tourism’s intervention in the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
A former member of the UN-WTO’s Executive Council, and current chairman of the UN-WTO’s Commission for Africa, Mzembi was instrumental in convening the 20th UN-WTO General Assembly in 2013. This global conference, which was hosted jointly by Zimbabwe and Zambia, was described by the current Secretary General, Dr Taleb Rifai, as ‘the best attended ever’ in the history of the organisation. Rifai, a Jordanian national, retires next year.

Membership of the Madrid-based UN-WTO, one of the 17 specialised agencies of the United Nations, covers 157 countries, 6 territories, and 480 affiliate groups representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations, and local tourism authorities. The organisation promotes responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism and works to make tourism an effective tool for development.

“The UN-WTO is the world’s leading international organisation promoting tourism as a driver of economic growth, environmental sustainability and inclusive development. My vision has always been to use tourism to promote peace, security and social harmony and, if I am appointed, I hope to be able to steer tourism development towards climate change adaptation and mitigation, and ultimately reduce poverty among communities”, concluded Mzembi.

Tourism remains one of Africa’s most important strategic sectors, both in terms of employment, foreign exchange revenues as well as opening up the continent and its opportunities to the world.

A sponsored supplement on Dr Mzembi putting forward his candidacy appeared in the latest issue of New African.

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Diamond Platnumz to Ivan Semwanga: What you own on Facebook is what I own in reality

By
Badru Kasadah
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I NAILED IT! The house Diamond Platnumz bought in South Africa

Zari Hussein’s ex-boyfriend Ivan Ssemwanga has for close to three years taunted Diamond Platnumz but the latter has always kept his cool.

However, yesterday that the Tanzanian multi-award winner decided to respond to Semwanga’s taunts in a language he thinks the Ugandan socialite understands better: he purchased a house in South Africa.

Platnumz then took a jibe at Semwanga, saying he brags that he is rich yet he sleeps in a rented house together with his sons. And the person he always attacks (Platnumz) is the person who has bailed out Semwanga’s kids from a bad life, the Tanzanian added.

“They are busy bragging themselves that they are Rich while their kids (are) staying the in the Renting (rented) House… and now a person which they are daily abusing and saying that he’s broke & Poor Bought a House, so that their Kids can have a better life, as they always wish on Social Media….. ”

Zari has three children with Semwanga but ever since the two separated in 2014, the kids have been staying with their dad in South Africa though, they once in a while visit their mum, who is now married to Diamond Platnumz.

 

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DJ Shiru sets date for release of video with Nigerian Patoranking

By
Badru Kasadah
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IT IS DONE LIKE THIS: DJ Shiru displays his dancehall skills

Following his successful concert here last year, Nigerian dancehall musician Patoranking recorded a song, ‘Dance Well’ with DJ Shiru.

The song is currently a club banger across all the night spots in the country. Well, bless yourselves for the video is coming out soon.

The Bukedde Tv DJ has revealed the video will be out in November.

DJ Shiru with Eddy Kenzo and Gravity 'Omutujju'.
DJ Shiru with Eddy Kenzo and Gravity ‘Omutujju’.

Meanwhile, the video for Shiru’s song with Eddy Kenzo and Gravity Omutujju was released this week.

Titled ‘Muliro’, here are some of the photos from the shooting of the video.

 

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