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PHOTOS: Kenyan protestors crashed, teargassed Uganda-style

By
Stephen Muneza
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Uganda’s Police force have evidently become increasingly reliant on tear gas in response to rising political disaffection  but their Kenyan counterparts are not  any behind going by Monday’s scenes in Nairobi.

Just like how downtown Kampalans get served teargas and beatings occasionally, Nairobians also got their share as Police lobbed teargas canisters to disperse the protesters who have caused chaos in most busy streets of the city.

MORE: Kenyan cops way more brutal than Ugandan police

The protests were led by opposition leader Raila Odinga/the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord), who say polls in 2017 cannot be free and fair if the current election commission remains in place. He has called for its commissioners to be removed from office.

There are claims that Raila’s vehicle was shot at during the demonstrations but police dismissed the reports.

 

Kenya’s police say at least 15 people were arrested during the protest. They will be charged in court on Tuesday, police said, without specifying the charges.

Opposition groups have vowed to hold protests every Monday at the offices of the EC until it is dissolved.

Back here, leading opposition figure Dr. Kizza Besigye who is by press time booked into Uganda’s largest prison Luzira Prison in the capital, Kampala over treason charges has tried to attack the Independent Electoral Commission but without much success.

The judiciary deemed all Dr. Besigye’s party FDC defiance activities including Stay Home Thursday, Black Tuesday prayers as illegal and unlawful in the country.

These pictures show scenes earlier on in the Kenya protest:

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The Kenyan cops have been busy all day firing tear gas and beating up protesters

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The opposition are demanding that the electoral commission be dissolved and a new one be set up ahead of general elections next year.
The opposition are demanding that the electoral commission be dissolved and a new one be set up ahead of general elections next year.
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Mugabe becomes grandfather

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Our Reporter
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Late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, 92, has confirmed that he became a grandfather for the first time last month when his only daughter Bona Chikore gave birth to a baby boy at a hospital abroad, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.

Mr Mugabe said his wife Grace was with their daughter and grandson, and would return to Zimbabwe next month.

Mugabe, 92, was one for the prominent fifteen African leaders who were present when President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for a fifth term last Thursday.

During a state dinner in Kampala, Mugabe walked in so gently a few minutes after the opening prayer and got a standing ovation; every one sprung to their feet and cheered.

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Orgasm-boosting diet you must try!

By
Guest Writer
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In spite of all the enlightenment going on about meaningful sex, judging by your text messages, it isn’t enough for some of you readers to achieve the pleasure you crave and sometimes it feels as if you’re destined to go through your whole life without really having an orgasm.

Quite a number would want to try some aphrodisiacs, but according to Marrena, a sexologist from Boston, USA, you don’t need them. She believes you can work your way to a climax and has written a book revealing the secrets of orgasm diet.

“I happen to have stumbled on a diet that makes women come alive often giving women the ability to have vaginal orgasms with men even spontaneous ones. The orgasms diet, involves taking fish supplements. Cutting down on carbohydrates and eating more protein.

One of the recommendations is to consume half an ounce of dark chocolate daily. She advises that women do pelvic floor exercise. Marrena claimed she discovered the effect of diet on a woman’s sex life by accident, as rarely able to reach orgasm when she had sex with her husband has put a huge strain on their relationship.

“He would roll his frame over,” she said, and I can’t say I blame him. After I gave birth to our second child, I started doing pelvic floor exercise and using vaginal cones to tighten up my muscles. One night when I was driving home, I decided to practice a few of my exercise.

I flexed my pelvic floor muscles and suddenly began to orgasm. “Over the next few days, I tried to reason out what was behind my new found ability. When I first became pregnant, I took fish oil as a natural remedy for depression.

I noticed that my desire had increased since I had started taking the tablets. But when I took a break from them I wasn’t able to reach orgasm spontaneously.

I also found the more 1 exercise my vaginal muscles, the better my orgasm, and stepping up the work-outs, I was able to repeat the exercise in the car whenever I wanted.”

So can diet really make a difference in a better enjoyment of sex? Research suggests that eating good-quality dark chocolate might spice up your sex life because certain chemicals found in chocolate can stimulate the transmission of nerves impulses and increase sensation.

Honey may also help because it’s a rich source of the mineral boron. Studies have shown that this mineral may boost the body’s testosterone levels.

@Vanguard

 

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VIDEO: Kenyan cops way more brutal than Ugandan police

By
Boses Muhinda
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We always complain about the brutality of Ugandan police during demonstrations, arrests of opposition leaders, and university strikes. But Africa has to look East and carefully study our neighbours from Kenya whose police has no soul when it comes to handling public demonstrations.

We have seen Kenyan media showcase footage of extreme brutality by the Kenyan police and army as they fight both recent and previous demonstrations. Much as we shouldn’t forget the time Besigye’s tormentor brutality beat the opposition leader, a scene that brought out extreme bitterness among opposition supporters.

Am not saying the Ugandan police or army is without fault because we have see a few scenes of the army beating up people in Kasese, shooting a couple of people and canning some students. But when we ‘fly’ to Kenya we see extremely bitter footage of the military police rounding up individuals and canning them in public. Today an army office was seen kicking a rioter who had fallen down in what seems like an act of exorcism of anger on the fallen individual.

The police in Kenya was also seen showering Nairobi University students with extreme amounts of teargas from all corners. To quantify the amount of teargas, let me compare it with a firefighter’s truck spraying water on a burning building. But to the Kenyans, this is what they can an everyday riot unlike ours that last a few minutes only for Police to disperse people with some canisters and everyone hides.

In Kenya, the police is known to go into corners or hidden areas and pick a few people who become the ‘Jesus’ of the strike. These are usually kicked or canned in public. In fact the Kenyan police recently paraded university students who were rioting, laid them on the flour and canned with rather big sticks. Even if an individual tried to run, they would leave a crowd chase the fellow and descend on him with a couple of kicks.

The army is common when dispersing crowds and since these guys aren’t the best at protecting themselves from foreign threats say ‘Al shabab’, however they seem to have mastered the art of canning the enemy. Unfortunately the ‘enemy’ of the Kenyan army is the one who foots their bills through taxes.

One wonders whether it’s about being harsh in character or culture of doing things the hard way. The Political scene in Kenya is filled with a lot of bitterness and harshness, both online and real life where citizens try to assassinate their former Prime minister.  These people are not intimidated by violence and they fight until they achieve a desired goal.

Unfortunately there is a growing loom of police brutality in the region and this isn’t the best way to portray our image. But some will argue citizens have freedom to demonstrate since it’s a constitutional right. Let’s remember that freedom is an illusion and it’s never cheap.

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What the promotion means for Muhoozi

By
Richard Wanambwa
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Gen. Kainerugaba, the new Commandant of Land Forces.

The Commander of Special Forces Command and first son, Brig. Muhoozi has been promoted from the rank of Brigadier to Major General in the army promotion just announced.

Muhoozi who has been a Brigadier for over a decade is now a two star general moving away from a one star general. He will definitely move away from the middle managers of the army to the upper stage of major decision maker. Maj. Gen. Muhoozi as he assumes the new title, will surely be moved away from commanding the elite force that guards the President who doubles as his father and possibly be in administration like joint chief of staff or chief of land forces because the new title comes with new assignment.

Muhoozi will certainly maintain his slot at the army high command and army council both bodies that make decisions for the force. The new promotion also means that Gen. Muhoozi’s will have an increment in his pay. Generally, Muhoozi is now fully destined for full and higher responsibilities of the force, should the Commander in Chief and both army council and high command see it fit for him to perform.

Who is Muhoozi?

Muhoozi Kainerugaba was born on April 24, 1974 is in in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he was the first of four children.

He attended schools in Tanzania, Kenya, and Sweden. Before he was relocated to Uganda when his father became President of Uganda. Where he attended schools like Kampala Parents School, King’s College Budo and St. Mary’s College Kisubi in 1994.

Muhoozi studied his university education at Nottingham University in the United Kingdom, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Politics degree in 1997.

Military career

He started military training in 1994 after he left high school and formally joined the UPDF in 1999.  And thereafter got married Charlotte Kutesa.

In 2000, he graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst while in 2002 he joined Egyptian Infantry School where he attended both the Company and Battalion Commanders courses.

Upon his successful completion of the Officer Cadet Course at Sandhurst in 2000, Brigadier Kainerugaba was commissioned to the rank of Second Lieutenant and assigned to the Presidential Protection Unit. In 2003, he was promoted to the rank of Major.

In February of 2010, he was appointed the Commander of the Special Forces Group (which was formed out of the former Presidential Guards Brigade and one Commando Battalion). In 2012, the Special Forces Group was expanded into a Special Forces Command.

As a Major, he became a Commanding Officer of the Motorized Infantry Unit within the Presidential Guard Brigade. Following his graduation from Fort Leavenworth in 2008, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and tasked by the UPDF High Command to study the organization, training and equipping of modern Special Forces, this was in order to avail the Commander-in-Chief and other senior decision makers in the UPDF with the necessary information they would need to set up such an organization.

Between 2001 and 2005, Muhoozi, attended the Kalama Armored Warfare Training School and Kalama Armored Warfare Training School is located in the Kabamba Cantonment, Mubende District.

In 2007, he was admitted to a one-year course at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where he graduated in June of 2008.

He also did an airborne course at Fort Benning, Georgia, which he successfully completed.

In 2012, he attended a six months Executive National Security Program (ENSP) at the South African National Defense College, located in Thaba Tshwane.

Other promotions include

Maj. Gen. Joram Mugume, who has now been elevated to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Col. Charles Lutaaya, promoted to the rank of Brigadier.

Col Sabiiti Muzeeyi Magyenyi, was promoted to Brigadier.

Col Sam Birungi Mugabe, promoted to Brigadier.

 

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What’s it like when your penis snaps in half? This guy knows

By
Guest Writer
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A man has described how he heard a ‘snapping sound’ when his penis snapped during sex.

He said he was having ‘vigorous’ sex when he heard the noise and felt severe pain at the same time.

By the time the 32-year-old, from New Delhi, arrived at hospital his penis had turned completely black.

His case has been documented in the BMJ case reports journal by doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

He suffered what’s known as an ‘eggplant deformity’ and he had snapped one of two tubes – known as corpora cavernosa – that run the length of the penis that make it hard when blood flows through.

When it snapped, blood went into the penis causing it to smell swell and go black.

Doctors drained the blood and repaired the tear.

The BMJ report said: ‘Penile fracture occurs when an erect penis undergoes a blunt trauma during sexual intercourse or otherwise, bending the penile shaft and causing a tear/rupture of the tunica albuginea, and tracking of blood from cavernosal sinuses into the subcutaneous plane.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZb_TDnueU

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BREAKING: Museveni promotes Muhoozi to Major General

By
Richard Wanambwa
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The Commander of Special Forces Command and first son, Brig. Muhoozi has been promoted from the rank of Brigadier to Major General in a army promotion just announced.

MUHOOZI

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Oguttu snubs police says he will appear tomorrow

By
Richard Wanambwa
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Outgoing Leader of Opposition and Bukooli Central Member of Parliament, Philip Wafula Oguttu has snubbed appearing at police today as he didn’t show-up as requested by the force.

Mr Oguttu instead wrote to Criminal Investigation Division (CID) indicating would appear tomorrow, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. In his letter, Mr Oguttu says his lawyers weren’t available to accompany and therefore, he couldn’t go alone.

He was supposed to appear today at 9 am to record a statement in relation to a footage of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party former presidential candidate, Dr. Kizza Besigye in the February 18, general elections. The video showed Dr. Besigye showing taking a presidential oath where Mr Oguttu was in attendance.

“Pursuant to section 27A of the police Act, you are hereby summoned to Special investigation Division (CID) before Ag Deputy Director (CID) on Monday, May 16, 2016, at 0900/C without fail to explain the circumstances under which you attended and witnessed the unlawful of taking of the presidential oath and undertaking to execute the functions and duties of the office of the President of the Republic of Uganda by Dr. Kizza Besigye Kifefe”. Reads the summons signed by a one Mark Pual Odong.

 

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Placing Sports in Education Sector is Systematic Marginalisation

By
Guest Writer
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Moses Magogo

I am doing research on a paper how to create a proper and streamlined Professional Sports Sector in Uganda. Look at my findings of where other countries have Sports placed compared to Uganda.

Education is defined as the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession. Education falls purely under the Education Sector

Sport; In modern definition, Sport is either Amateur or Professional

Amateur Sport; is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another for pleasure or as past time or for recreational purposes or for health reasons or as training to become Professional. This falls under the Social Sector.

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Professional Sport; is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another as an economic activity with the objective of earning fees or making profit. This falls under the Tourism, Trade & Industry Sector.

By Moses Magogo, Fufa President

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Museveni and Besigye: An abridged tale of two former NRA bush comrades

By
Julius Mwesigye
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GOLDEN handshake. Museveni, Besigye shake hands at Namugongo during the visit by the Pope to Uganda. The two men haven't had a one nearly two decades after falling out.

Over the last two decades the rivalry for the presidency of Uganda has never been as pronounced as it is today, with the competing interests of President Yoweri Museveni and his challenger Dr Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe taking centre-stage.

To those who follow politics Mr Museveni and Dr Besigye need no introduction; both emerged as national leaders following the capture of state power by the National Resistance Movement/Army in 1986 after engaging in a grueling five-year bush war against the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC) government of Milton Obote and the six-month military junta government of General Tito Okello Lutwa.

At the time to date, 30 years to be precise, Mr. Museveni has maintained the leadership of the political-military outfit that swept the two men to the national leadership scene, while his nemesis has spent most of that time in political limbo after their intra-party fall out.

As a result, in between scouring Mr. Museveni’s and Dr. Besigye’s divergent opinions Ugandans have come to draw comparisons between the two bush war comrades who, through their actions over the last 20 years, have at different times, polarized the country.

Similarities

Since they fell out and started challenging each other politically both Museveni and Dr. Besigye have enjoyed top news coverage, local and international. Similarly, in more recent times both men, ordinarily resident in Wakiso on the outskirts of Kampala capital city, have been guarded heavily by the army and police. Museveni is guarded by Special Forces Command (SFC), a specialized unit of Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) whereas, Dr. Besigye is guarded by ‘police’ that oversee his movements and home.

Pundits also say that Museveni and Dr. Besigye, both university graduates men are from Uganda’s ‘political west’, are resolute in their individual political convictions and actions, who have been linked to fiery lady politician Winnie Byanyima.

Differences   

According to observers, Mr. Museveni is a calm and suave political actor who however, reacts to challenging circumstances in a manner that leaves many guessing his next move. However, Dr. Besigye is openly aggressive, making him admired and loathed in equal measure by different Ugandans.

A political Scientist, Mr. Museveni, alumni of Dar es Salaam University in Tanzania and Dr. Besigye, alumni of Makerere University in Uganda, studied medicine.

And most recently, Mr. Museveni was sworn in as President of Uganda on May 12, while his challenger in the February 18 elections, Dr. Besigye, who is also dubbed by his supporters as the ‘Peoples President’ declared himself president after ‘swearing in’ on Wednesday, May 11.

In the ensuing brouhaha Dr. Besigye was flown by a police helicopter to internal exile in Moroto where he was arraigned before a magistrate, who later ordered that Dr. Besigye be transferred to Luzira prison for remand.

 

 

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