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CSOs want Burundi kicked out of EAC

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A man runs past a burning barricade on a rock strewn street in Bujumbura's Niyakabiga district on Presidential election day in Burundi, July 21, 2015. A policeman and an opposition official died in violence marring the start of Burundi's presidential election, already hit by opposition boycotts and protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX1L6Z1

 

Civil Society organizations in the East African region want Burundi to be axed from the East African Community (EAC) regional bloc.

The activists said it was necessary for Burundi to leave the EAC because of its unwillingness to participate in the ongoing peace talks.

The East African Civil Society Organisations’ Forum (EACSOF) said the EAC and the UN should now impose   economic sanctions against Burundi.

Presenting his petition yesterday before EALA’s Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution Committee (RACR), Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) Chief Executive Officer Donald Deya said the unrest in Burundi is on the increase with government officials in the country showing no interest in the ongoing peace talks.

Deya said the humanitarian crisis witnessed in the country was terrifying, adding that Burundi deserved to be axed from the bloc after turning a blind eye to the unrest.

“Various reports have shown that many people continue to die while no action has been taken to avert more deaths. Our fear is that we might witness genocide; the only remedy is to suspend Burundi membership from the bloc,” Deya argued.

He added that it was a shame for other countries in the region to remain tight-lipped while the situation was getting out of control over the last six months.

“Something needs to be done urgently or else we will be witnessing the worst,” he said.

According to Deya, a recent report on the refugee status by January 4, this year shows that Tanzania had welcomed 189,472 Burundians for refuge while an additional 124,061 had found their way there.

However, a section of lawmakers from EALA was quick to question the authenticity of the report and the allegations levelled against the unstable country, but in his defence, Deya claimed that the reports stemmed from the media and human rights organisations in Burundi.

A lawmaker from Tanzania observed that the humanitarian crisis needs to be resolved using the protocols that were used in establishing the community, warning that embarking on emotions in resolving the crisis was detrimental.

But the chairperson of the committee on Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution, Abdullah Mwinyi, assured the civil societies that his 13 member team was keen on listening on the petitions and later work on them.

EALA’s Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution Committee entered its second day yesterday with a resolve of reviewing the petition by the Pan African Lawyers (PALU) submitted to the lawmakers in November last year.

In November last year four Civil Society Organisations led by PALU petitioned EALA to urgently undertake specified number of actions within its mandate to contain the deteriorating situation in Burundi.

The petition was presented to EALA’s speaker, Daniel Kidega, in Arusha by PALU and the East African Civil Society Organisations Forum (EACSOF).

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Museveni may attend presidential debate

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President Museveni.

National Resistance Movement flag bearer Yoweri Museveni may attend the presidential debate organised by Inter-Religious Council, EagleOnline has learnt. According to reliable information one of Mr. Museveni’s handlers says the President could make a surprise appearance for the debate that will take place tomorrow at Serena Conference center.

“It is not true that Museveni has publically said he will not attend but because of the busy schedule with campaigns, he was none committal about the debate. So, do not rule him out as yet,” the President’s handler told this website.

President Museveni had earlier said that he is mobile with his mouth and brain and that he would attend the debate if “there is time.”

Meanwhile, FDC Flag bearer, Dr Kizza Besigye who had earlier pulled out of the debate was convinced by the Chairman of the Elders’ Forum, Justice James Ogoola and has made a comeback. Justice Ogoola met Dr Besigye today morning at Mbale and subsequently, Dr Besigye held a press briefing in Budaka announcing his return to the highly anticipated presidential debate that will be hosted by BBC journalists Allan Kasujja and Nancy Kacungira.

Justice Ogoola has also stated that none of the presidential candidates has written to him officially turning the offer to debate.

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Qualified Teachers Enabled Kampala Parents’ School PLE Success

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Kampala Parents’ School principal Daphne Kato jubilates with one of the pupils who excelled.

A well-rounded collection of qualified teachers has once again enabled Kampala Parents’ School achieve impressive results for the Primary Leaving Examinations.

Kampala Parents’ School principal Daphne Kato speaking at an exclusive interview acknowledged that quality teachers were a winning tool that helped them record a 100 percent pass rate in the 2015 primary leaving examination released on Tuesday.

“Dr. Sudhir has provided everything that a child needs to study and excel. We have also got qualified teachers who love what they do. As a school we work together with our teachers, parents and pupils to see that our children do well in and out of class.”

Capacity building of their academic staff is a key programme for KPS management. The school not only aims at recruiting the best teachers but also ensures they evolve with the changing times and adapt to different pupils’ needs.

Mr. James Makanda, the head of Social Studies department added, “Our teachers worked hard and finished the syllabus in second term so we used the 3rd term to revise. We worked as a team and also carried out continuous assessment meetings to know up with our pupil’s performance trends. We then did revisions with our pupils.”

Kampala Parents managed to attain 178 first grades and 80 second grades (out of 258 pupils). The highest honour, aggregate four was achieved by 02 pupils, while aggregates five, six, seven and eight were attained by 06, 15, 25 and 32 pupils respectively.

Kato added: To us as a school, the way children are prepared is vital and we take it serious by insuring that our pupils have everything they need to study.

We did all we had to do. Parents and pupils worked hard and the teachers put in a lot of effort to see to it that the learners do well in PLE. We expected better performance and we know we are going to make it better this year.”

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Glamour Girl Cate Ayella on design, fashion and acting

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Steven F Mandu
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Who is Cate Ayellah?

Cate Ayellah is a plus size down-to-earth lady who is ambitious and stops at nothing to get what she wants; likes humor and detests lies.

Where were you born and where did you go to school?

I was born and raised in Entebbe. I went to St Theresa Primary School, St Noah Girls, Kisubi High School and Makerere University (MUK).

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This may be difficult for you but how old are you?

It i s one of my favorite questions by the way, because I get to tell people my birthday and expect to get more presents each year … I will be making 24 years in March this year.

What do you do for a living?

I deal in hair and mainly human hair, like Peruvian, Brazilian and Indian hair. It is an online business. I am also a stylist with Xtreme Casting; I am a fashion blogger, an actress and voice actress.

How did you get into modeling and fashion?

I was inspired by some Zipper Models, the likes of Priscilla Ray, Jada, Maureen Akiiba; those girls slayed…oh my God! I always kept up with them. For fashion, I see beauty in everything and I always believe that any clothes or accessories can be matched well, because fashion is not only about trend but style.

What form of acting do you do, comedy, drama, or movies?

It’s always drama movies or series. Never acted comedy but I think I could try it.

What are some the works that you have produced?

I’ve never produced any movie or series because I am not a producer; I am simply an actress….but my works as an actress include Escape from Uganda, the Love Makanika, Mountains and Valleys and The Ring among others.

When did you join the acting industry and what inspired you?

I joined the acting industry in 2012 when I had my very first auditions. Acting is one of the things I’ve always wanted to do. So, it’s my ambition that inspired me to join the acting industry.

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Who is your role model both locally and internationally?

Internationally it’s Khloe Kardashian; I like her confidence and courage and locally, my role models are those that stand up for what they want  without being afraid.

Are you married, engaged, or in a relationship and if you yes with who?

I am not married nor engaged but am in a relationship with someone I can’t disclose.

Why can’t you mention him?

Because I prefer privacy when it gets to my relationship.

Should we expect a ring on your figure soon?

Hahahaha…..like I said ‘privacy’

When do you want to start having children?

God’s timing is the best. But if it were up to me I would say not any time soon.

What is the special thing about Cate Ayella?

I am Cate Ayella… That should be special enough. No one can be me and I can’t be someone else.

Cate, you are a very beautiful girl, do you do you get calls from men asking you out?

Thank you, but I think every girl, whether beautiful or not, gets men asking her out. So yes!

If yes how do you manage to resist them?

 Hehehehe….don’t make me seem mean. But I just tell them I am in a relationship and I love and respect my partner

Have you ever hard a crash on a man?

Man? Just one? No way try ‘men’ yes I do crush on men.

If yes who?

Many people you won’t even have space to write them.

How do your maintain your beauty and figure?

Once again thank you, … Hmm I just do a few exercises not to reduce my weight but to maintain it and shape or curve it like a real African woman. Then take lots of water, juice and eat fruits to keep my skin clear and fresh. Let’s be clear about this: I love my size so I don’t do anything to reduce it, I just watch my weight to maintain it and keep healthy

What makes Cate pushing?

The fact that I have people out there that look up to me. That alone keeps me pushing.

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What achievements have you registered in your career?

You gain achievements when you are recognized, my achievements in my career would be being nominated, not once but twice in the Abryanz Fashion and Style Awards last year.

What challenges have you met so far and how have you overcome them?

My biggest challenge is that people want me to be what they want and also they don’t want to accept change … So imagine how that is … honestly, I haven’t overcome it.

Have you ever participated in a beauty contest and if yes how did you perform?

No, I am more of one who likes organizing than participating.

What have been your best and worst moments in your career?

My best moment was when I accepted myself the way I am. I began seeing life in a different perspective. I have no worst moments so far.

Which music do you listen to?

Am a musical …, I listen to all music; music makes it all better because when words fail to reason with your mind, music shall reach your soul

Who is your favorable artiste both locally and internationally?

Locally, it’s Maurice Kirya and Lilian Mbabazi, those guys are goddamn! And internationally it is Taylor  Swift and Sia.

How do you spend your free time?

Usually it’s swimming, movies, reading magazines, checking out what’s trending and if I am not doing any of that, I am adventuring (trying out different stuff)

Do you hang out and if yes which are your favourable hang out places in Uganda?

I usually hung out in less crowded and open bar places. We are most likely going to meet if you like such places

Which is your favourite dish?

 

I don’t think I have a favorite dish; I enjoy any single meal if its prepared well with enough salt. Laughter

Do you drive, and what is your dream car?

I don’t have a car now. But a car is a car, not a dream car.

Where do you see the Ugandan modeling and fashion industry moving?

Now, for the modeling industry, it’s doing really good with models like Aamito representing Uganda internationally, and for fashion, it’s more imitators but I am looking forward to seeing people creating their own

How about acting are we about get the level of Nollywood?

Acting schools should train the actors and advise them on being natural. But we are on the same levels and perhaps better than them…we are Ugandans and we are ambitious.

What are your future prospects?

I plan to expand my career and push it to another level. Can’t do all that alone; God in it.

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Kenya ballot printer fined

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Smith and Ouzman, the company that printed ballot materials for the 2013 elections in Kenya has been ordered to pay a fine of £2.2 million for bribing Kenyan officials to win the contract.

This is the second time Smith and Ouzman has faced the wrath of an uncompromising UK judicial system, the first being the jailing of the company’s directors in February last year.

Christopher John Smith and Nicholas Charles Smith were sent to jail after investigations by the Serious Fraud Office revealed they had a hand in the bribe scandal involving £395.074, given to officials in Kenya and Mauritania.

The two Smiths and their two co-accused Timothy Hamilton Forrester and Abdirahman Mohamed Omar first appeared for trial in the UK in August 2013.

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Bashir party registers in South Sudan

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President Omar al-Bashir
ICC INDICTEE: Sudan President Omar al-Bashir

The National Congress Party (NCP) of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is one of about twenty political parties that registered on Monday in Juba, South Sudan.

According to South Sudan’s Political Parties Act, 2012, all parties should be registered in the independent South Sudan to be recognized in any future elections and the Political Parties Council (PPC) set tomorrow, January 15, 2016 as the deadline to register all parties in the country.

There are more than twenty political parties in South Sudan; most of them have offices only in the capital Juba including the ruling SPLM, which had never registered in South Sudan since independence in 2011 and had only been using the registration certificate from Khartoum before the country split.

Meanwhile, South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir, has appealed to his supporters to mobilize votes for him in future elections due to be conducted in 2018.

Speaking briefly to cheering supporters as the ruling party of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) handed its basic documents to the Political Parties Council (PPC) for registration, Kiir said there is no easy struggle in everything.

“When time comes for elections, you mobilize more people to come and increase your numbers and give all the votes to my box,” said Kiir, speaking to ululating SPLM supporters at Freedom Square in Juba.

The president was driven on an open hardtop car as several ministers, members of parliament from SPLM and ordinary citizens accompanied him to the PPC office in Thongpiny suburb of Juba.

“You have been in the sun for long time and that is why I stopped here to say thank you very much for the support accorded to us (SPLM),” he said, adding: “I want to tell you that there is no easy struggle. See how you walked on feet to the SPLM office and return here. That is a struggle.”

South Sudan is the world’s newest country, and broke away from the Sudan in 2011 after decades of war pitting the mainly Arab Muslim north against their countrymen in the Christian animist south.

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Australians lose out on $2.2b prize

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More than 200,000 Australians gambled on the outcome of a United States lottery which has made someone in Southern California $US1.59 billion ($2.2 billion) richer.

Lottery officials said the winning ticket was purchased at a convenience store in Chino Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles.

The identity of the winner is still not clear, but they purchased their ticket in the sixth-highest income area in America.

The winning numbers were 8, 27, 34, 4, 19 and Powerball number 10.

In Australia, more than 200,000 people selected numbers for the lottery across two days through an international betting company called Lottoland.

Betting with Lottoland is not the same as buying a Powerball ticket.

Instead, Lottoland guarantees to pay out the full winnings if the right numbers come up.

“You’d select the numbers that you think will win the Powerball, you then submit that,” Lotto spokesman Luke Brill said.

“Once you’ve submitted it, what we do is we ensure your bet.

“So the intention is we ensure that bet and should those numbers come up and actually win the Powerball, we would pay you out as if you’d actually won the actual Powerball.”

Mr Brill said the interest from Australians had been extraordinary.

“We got the licensing on Christmas Eve so we didn’t really do anything over the Christmas period apart from ready the website,” he said.

“We then two days ago … decided to put a press release out.”

Despite Australia’s enthusiasm for America’s big prize, science expert Dr Karl said the odds were never good.

“The odds are one in 292 million, and there’s roughly that many people in the United States.

“Your odds of winning are only slightly improved if you actually go out and buy a ticket.

“It’s a very unlikely event, you’re actually four times more likely to be killed by an asteroid.

“And you think, hang on, but nobody got killed by an asteroid last year, so the way you work it out is over a 10,000 year window an asteroid will hit and kill about a million people, so it’s one in every 75 million people per year, so that’s how they work it out.”

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Zanu PF plans ‘best’ Mugabe birthday party

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Mugabe during his 90th birthday celebration

Supporters of President Robert Mugabe are planning the ‘best’ ever birthday party for him next month, when he will turn 92.

Preparations for the party, to be held in Masvingo, appear to be in full swing, despite rumours that the longtime Zimbabwe leader had a heart attack earlier this week while on holiday.

Reports indicate a deadline had been set for mobilising resources for the event, traditionally one of the biggest on Zimbabwe’s yearly calendar.

A fundraising target hasn’t yet been set. But last year’s birthday party was held in the plush Victoria Falls and cost an estimated US$1million.

Masvingo and surrounding areas have been badly hit by drought and reports on Tuesday said Masvingo province had suffered the country’s worst cattle losses, with about 5 000 prized cows dead.

Traditionally officials – and others – donate cattle to feed party-goers.

Some locals are critical of the ruling party’s desire to hold a birthday party this year given the circumstances.

“With the dire situation on the back of this drought, surely any sensible leader would channel these funds towards relief efforts,” tweeted @MunesuShoko.

Another Zimbabwean tweeted that civil servants had still not been paid their bonuses.

But organiser, Ezra Chadzamira, was quoted as saying that Zanu-PF members from Masvingo wanted to host the party ‘in style’.

“We want to make the event the best of them all,” Chadzamira said,

Many Zimbabweans have been unimpressed with feverish speculation – almost all of it outside the country – that the longtime leader had collapsed while on holiday in the Far East

Former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, who is now the minister of higher education, said on Twitter late on Tuesday that January traditionally saw ‘lies’ told about Mugabe.

Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest serving leaders after 36 years in power, said last year that it was ‘the Lord’ who had let him live so long.

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Besigye to participate in presidential debate

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Jonathan Kamoga
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The Forum for Democratic Change flag bearer Dr Warren Kizza Besigye has changed his mind and now says he will participate in the presidential debate slated for tomorrow, January 15.

Word doing rounds had it that Dr Besigye and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate Yoweri Museveni had pulled out of the debate that is organised by the Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRC-U) and the Elders Forum.

But yesterday, Elders Forum chairperson retired Justice James Ogoola Munange said the debate would go on even if the two candidates did not put up a show.

Justice Ogoola’s affirmation followed comments attributed to Dr Besigye, indicating that the debate would lose meaning if Museveni, the incumbent president, does not turn up.

As for Mr Museveni, his ‘no-show’ was recently relayed to the media by NRM Secretary General Justin Kasule Lumumba, who said that their party candidate will not participate in the debate because of his busy campaign schedule.

The imminent ‘no-show’ of frontrunners Museveni and Dr Besigye caused anxiety and there were mixed reactions to the development, with some eminent voices including the former boss of the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) Dr Maggie Kigozi and Dr Besigye’s wife Winnie Byanyima, the Executive Director of Oxfam, urging the FDC flag bearer to participate.

The race for State House has attracted eight contenders, but Museveni, Dr Besigye and former Prime Minister and Go Forward candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi seem to command a lot of support. They also have a lot of resources at their exposure and have so far been able to carry out campaigns in almost all designated areas.

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Fifa candidate in Kigali for CHAN

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The Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) presidential candidate Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein is in Kigali for the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) Cup.

During his visit Prince Al Hussein has met with Rwandan foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo and other government officials.

By press time it was not established if Prince Al Hussein will meet President Paul Kagame.

Mr Kagame is an ardent football fan and he sponsors the Confederation of East and Central Africa (CECAFA) Club Championship to the tune of US$60.000.

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