Thank you so much to the people of Rakai district for today’s warm reception. We have traversed the deep and rural parts of the district from Kacheera, Lwamaggwa, Lwentulege, Kibale , Kasensero landing site, Mutukula border and finally Kyotera. I am extremely marveled at your dedication and tenacity in joining us to liberate our country.
Historically, Kyotera in Rakai has always been at the forefront of this liberation struggle. It’s here where I was handed the first hammer in the early days of this struggle. And today I have been greeted by very enthusiastic crowds along the roads, town centres, stop-overs and at the rallies we have held in your area today. I welcome the new members who crossed from the NRM and joined the FDC during the rallies.
In the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), our main goal remains, the liberation of Ugandans and bringing back power to the real owners; the people. After capturing power, we shall embark on the process of restructuring the state institutions and fostering a broad based all-inclusive transformation.
Thank you so much for the contributions to this struggle, material and otherwise that you continue to extend to this campaign. This will enable us to take the message to other parts of the country, which like Rakai, desperately need to be given hope. The task of freeing Uganda from bondage is ours. As Ugandans, the removal of this repressive regime is our shared responsibility.
Finally, I and the whole FDC fraternity are extremely saddened by the deaths of innocent people in Paris, France last night at the hands of terrorists. We also commiserate with victims of terrorism elsewhere in Lebanon and Iraq. Our hearts go out to all those who lost loved ones and the injured. This serves as a reminder that the war on terror is a task for all peace loving people world over. I therefore urge all Ugandans to continue to pray for peace world over.
We condemn in the highest terms, the act of horror carried on innocent people by terrorists. Trust us to be your future allies in combating terror anywhere.
Diarra, 30, was playing in the friendly against Germany at the Stade de France where three suicide bombers died in blasts outside the stadium.
The French Football Federation (FFF) said Tuesday’s international friendly against England at Wembley would go ahead following three days of national mourning.
Diarra, who plays for Marseille, added: “As you may have read, I was touched personally by the attacks.
“My cousin, Asta Diakite, was among the victims of one of the shootings, along with hundreds of other innocent French people. She was like a big sister to me.
“In this climate of terror, it is important for all of us who represent our country and its diversity to stay united against a horror which has no colour, no religion. Stand together for love, respect and peace.
“Thank you all for your messages, take care of yourselves and your loved ones, and may the victims rest in peace.”
France striker Antoine Griezmann, who was on the pitch with Diarra when the attacks occurred, said his sister had a narrow escape from the Bataclan theatre, where 89 people were killed.
The 24-year-old Atletico Madrid forward said on social media: “Thanks to God that my sister was able to leave the Bataclan. All my prayers are with the victims and their families.”
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Former Tottenham winger David Ginola believes Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, 52, will move to Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain next year.(BT Sport)
Chelsea want Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, 24, and will make a £40m bid for the French forward. (Sunday Express)
helsea boss Mourinho is ready to send striker Radamel Falcao, 29, back to Monaco if an agreement can be reached with the Ligue 1 club to end his season-long loan spell.(Sun on Sunday)
Blues striker Diego Costa, 27, will also try to sell in January – and the club is in the market for two new strikers. (Sunday Mirror)
Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa counterpart Michel Platini, who wanted to succeed the Swiss at world football’s governing body, could be banned for six years by Christmas over a payment made to the Frenchman in 2011. Both men deny wrongdoing.(Mail on Sunday)
Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic, 27, has threatened to retire from international duty with Serbia because of concerns about the attitude of his team-mates. (Evening Standard)
Manchester United are monitoring Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben, 31, who has fallen out with team-mate Robert Lewandowski.(Sunday Mirror)
Newcastle are ready to make a January bid to sign £20m-rated West Brom striker Saido Berahino, 22. (Sun on Sunday)
Tottenham are considering a £7m move for Dynamo Kiev defender Domagoj Vida, 26.(Daily Star Sunday)
Aston Villa are the bookmakers’ favourites to sign 31-year-old former Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor. (Birmingham Mail)
American investors are set to buy Everton, taking the number of US-owned Premier League clubs to six.(Daily Star Sunday)
Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre says the club struggles to get 12 or 13-year-old fans into Anfield under current ticketing structures. (Liverpool Echo)
Former Swansea striker Lee Trundle feels it is “stupid” to talk about the possible sacking of manager Garry Monk, 36.(South Wales Evening Post)
Monk could lose his 38-year-old assistant Pep Clotet, who has been interviewed for the manager’s job at Championship side Brentford.(Sunday Telegraph)
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The Euro 2016 finals in France should not be cancelled in the wake of Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris, says tournament organiser Jacques Lambert.
Islamic State claimed responsibility after 129 people were killed and more than 350 wounded in the French capital.
Lambert, speaking on French radio station RTL, said: “Wondering whether Euro 2016 must be cancelled is playing the game of the terrorists.
“The risk went up one level in January, it has just gone higher.”
It is the second time this year that Paris has suffered attacks. Over three days in early January, Islamist gunmen murdered 18 people after attacking satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman on patrol.
However, Lambert said: “We will take the necessary decisions for Euro 2016 to take place in the best safety conditions.
“Security in stadiums works well, the risk is more in the streets, in spontaneous gatherings.”
The European Championship final is scheduled to be played at the Stade de France on 10 July.
Four people died in explosions near the stadium on Friday, while France were playing a friendly against Germany.
The Euro 2016 finals will be held at venues across France from 10 June.
Several sporting fixtures in France have been postponed this weekend, including all European Rugby Champions Cup and Challenge Cup matches.
Several Kalashnikovs have been found in an abandoned car believed to have been used by some of the Paris attackers, French judicial sources say.
The black Seat car was found in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil on Sunday and suggests some of the attackers got away.
Earlier, the first of the seven dead attackers was named as Ismail Mostefai. Six people close to him are in custody.
France is in three days of mourning for the 129 people killed in the attacks.
A special service for the families of the victims, the 350 people who were wounded, and the other survivors will be held at Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral later on Sunday.
Friday’s attacks, claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants, hit a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars in the French capital.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said France will continue with air strikes against IS in Syria, and described the group as a very well-organised enemy.
President Francois Hollande has cancelled his plans to attend the G20 in Turkey and is holding meetings with various political leaders to discuss the crisis.
Belgian link?
The black Seat car, found in Montreuil, is believed to have been used by gunmen who opened fire at people in restaurants on Friday night, police say.
Several AK47 rifles were found in the car, French media quotes judicial sources as saying.
It appears to confirm the theory that some of the gunmen managed to flee from the scene after the attacks, the BBC’s Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
These men may then have driven north in another car to Belgium, he adds.
Three men were arrested in Belgium on Saturday in connection with the attacks.
Another car, a Volkswagen Polo, with Belgian number plates was found near the Bataclan concert venue, where nearly 90 people were killed.
Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins said that car had been rented by a French national living in Belgium.
“We can say at this stage of the investigation there were probably three co-ordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act,” Mr Molins said.
“We have to find out where they came from… and how they were financed.”
A Syrian passport, found near the body of one of the attackers at the Stade de France, had been used to travel through the Greek island of Leros last month, Greek officials have confirmed.
Serbia says the holder of that passport had also crossed its border from Macedonia and sought asylum at one of its registration centres.
No direct link has yet been made with the holder of the passport and the attackers.
History of petty crime
Mostefai was reportedly identified after investigators found a severed finger at the scene of the worst atrocity, the Bataclan concert hall where more than 80 people died.
Mostefai had a history of petty crime but was never jailed. The security services deemed him to have been radicalised in 2010 but he was never implicated in a counter-terrorism investigation.
Police are said to be trying to find out whether he travelled to Syria in 2014.
His father, brother and sister-in-law are among six people close to Mostefai who have reportedly been taken into police custody.
“It’s crazy, insane. I was in Paris myself last night, I saw what a mess it was,” Mostefai’s older brother told AFP before being detained after voluntarily attending a police station on Saturday.
Mostefai’s brother said he had not had contact with him for several years following family disputes, but said he was surprised to hear he had been radicalised.
He was one of six children in the family and had travelled to Algeria with his family and young daughter, the brother said.
French President Francois Hollande has imposed a state of emergency after the worst peacetime attack in France since World War Two. It is also the deadliest in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.
Islamic State said it carried out the attacks on “carefully chosen targets” and were a response to France’s involvement in the air strikes on IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
President Hollande said France had been “attacked in a cowardly shameful and violent way” and vowed to be “merciless” in its response to IS militants.
Fisheries, Police officers and CAOs to be investigated
President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Minister of Local Government Adolf Mwesige to immediately liaise with the Chief Administrative Officers and ascertain why no disciplinary action has been taken against fisheries officers involved in illegal fishing and trade in connivance with the Beach management Units and committees.
“If those officers have failed in their supervisory roles, they should be dismissed. Those complaints should be investigated immediately and disciplinary action taken. All Fisheries Officers should stop their activities in connection with Fisheries standards Enforcement because they are the problem,” he said.
The President also directed the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Tress Buchanayandi to stop forthwith the activities and operations of the Beach management Units and Committees and for Fisheries Officers to stop their activities.
In a letter dated November 11, 2015, the President said he has been receiving complaints about the manner in which beach management officers, Fisheries officers and police officers and other employees of the Fisheries department have been carrying out their enforcement activities and the illegal activities they are involved in including illegal fishing and trade, extortion of money from fishermen, corruption, connivance with fishermen to use illegal fishing methods, gears and trading in immature fish.
“These illegal activities have led to the depletion of fish in the lakes which has immensely affected the economy in terms of closure of fish factories, loss of jobs, investors etc. These people are also involved in mistreating fishermen who do not cooperate with them. Sometimes, they prefer criminal charges against them. As such the purpose for which they were created has not been fulfilled,” he said.
The President wants the Ministry to come up with strict guidelines on their operations, activities, elections and dismissal. He has also directed that Fisheries Officers and employees of the fisheries department who have been engaged in illegal fishing activities should be investigated in liaison with Resident District Commissioners and disciplinary action taken.
In a separate letter to the Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura, the President directed the immediate withdrawal of all the Police officers involved in the enforcement of fisheries related matters until the Ministry of Agriculture puts a proper mechanism in place. He also directed the investigation of police officers implicated by the fishermen and community members and take the necessary action against them.
Candidate Museveni addressing his supporters at Pakwach.
President Yoweri Museveni who is also the NRM Presidential Flag bearer today stormed the West Nile Region to a colourful yellow welcome and hopeful message telling supporters, “Am coming to celebrate victory with you.”
Whereas Mr Museveni entered his day one rally in West Nile, his number one competitor Kizza Besigye was in Kyotera where he promised Baganda Federo. He was welcomed by thousands of people that turned up to listen to him Kyotera before he concluded at the landing site.
Museveni who concluded a highly successful campaign trail of Lango region with a message of hope and record of success reiterated his pledge to boost UPE and USE by providing free exercise books, mathematical sets and sanitary pads to keep girls in school. He said parents will remain with the responsibility of providing uniform and food for their children.
Candidate Besigye campaigning in Kyotera.
President Museveni also assured Ugandans that graduates with no jobs will be retooled in technical skills to create jobs and incomes.
While addressing his supporters at Omach Primry School in Pakwach town council said, Candidate Museveni said the NRM is a party of peace and unity and called for their support to maintain it. “NRM believes in unity of all Ugandans. It does not believe in religious or tribal sectarianism, looking down upon the youth, women and the disabled. We value everybody,” he said.
The President who was welcomed by Chief Odong Mandir, Chairman of Jonam cultural leaders and his deputy Chief Charles Otober advised the people to engage in activities that will bring in household incomes such as poultry and cattle rearing, citrus fruit growing among others.
On employment, Museveni pointed out that many factories in the region are set to add value to the country’s produce such as maize, oils etc. He said this will create more jobs especially for the youth and a market for our produce.
President Yoweri Museveni and also NRM party flag bearer has received a boost of support from Uganda President Peoples’ Congress party faithful in Lango region when they endorsed him as a their candidate in the next year’s national elections.
UP stalwarts pledged support to President Museveni owing to the peace and stability brought by NRM government.
“Since UPC doesn’t have a Presidential Candidate, people should vote for Museveni because of the good things his government has done such as rural electrification, good roads and money for the elderly” said Acheng Joy Ruth, MP Kole district.
Mr Museveni was held his 5th day of campaigns in Kole district and revealed that government will construct two boreholes in each village and repair broken ones saying that this will go a long way in solving water shortage during the dry season and provide access to clean water.
“Government will build two boreholes in each village. It is the work of government to repair and maintain these boreholes,” he said.
The President was this afternoon addressing a mammoth crowd at Omoge Primary School in Bala sub county, Kole South Constituency.
Candidate Museveni who received an overwhelming welcome by the supporters in Bala, urged the people to vote and keep NRM in power saying that the party has been tested and delivered to the expectation of majority Ugandans.
He said that NRM has numerous achievements that include peace and security in the entire country, infrastructure, development, Health and education among others. He said the Masindi Port-Rwenkunyu-Apac to Gulu will among others be tarmacked.
In a statement on Friday, the Belgian foreign ministry said: “We advise Belgians who are currently in Burundi and whose presence is not essential to leave the country as soon as normal measures allow.”
Meanwhile, the EU ambassador to Burundi, Patrick Spirlet, told Reuters that the “rising risk of violence” had prompted the EU mission in the capital Bujumbura to reduce some staff.
However, he stressed that “the delegation will continue functioning normally”.
These measures come a day after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning the escalating violence.
The French-drafted resolution also paves the way for a possible deployment of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers.
It requests that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reports within 15 days on options for increasing the UN presence in the impoverished African country.
UN officials are considering a number of alternatives, including rushing in peacekeepers currently deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says the BBC’s Nick Bryant.
But that would require another vote in the Security Council.
In April, Mr Nkurunziza argued that his first term as president did not count towards the constitutional two-term limit as he was chosen by MPs.
Mr Nkurunziza was duly re-elected with 70% of the vote in July.
France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 120 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris.
Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took hostages before security forces stormed the hall.
People were shot dead at restaurants and bars at five other sites in Paris. Eight attackers are reported killed.
French President Francois Hollande, visibly shaken, called Friday night’s events “a horror” and vowed to wage a “merciless” fight against terrorism.
Paris saw three days of attacks in early January, when Islamist gunmen murdered 18 people after attacking satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman on patrol.
The attack on the 1,500-seat Bataclan hall was by far the deadliest of Friday night’s attacks. Gunmen opened fire on concert-goers watching US rock group Eagles of Death Metal. The event had been sold out.
“At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood,” Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, told Agence France Presse.
“They didn’t stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee.”
He said the gunmen took 20 hostages, and he heard one of them tell their captives: “It’s the fault of Hollande, it’s the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria”.
Within an hour, security forces had stormed the concert hall and all four attackers there were dead. Three had blown themselves up and a fourth was shot dead by police.
Spectators flooded the pitch of the Stade de France after the France v Germany football match as news of the attacks spread
Attack sites:
Bataclan concert venue, 50 boulevard Voltaire, 11th district – gun and suicide bomb attacks
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris – explosions near venue as France played Germany in football friendly
Le Carillon bar, 18 rue Alibert, 10th district – gun attack
Le Petit Cambodge restaurant, 20 rue Alibert, 10th district – gun attack
La Belle Equipe, 92 rue de Charonne, 11th district – gun attack
La Casa Nostra restaurant, 2 rue de la Fontaine au roi, 11th district – gun attack
Meanwhile, not far from the Place de la Republique and the Place de la Bastille, three busy restaurants and a bar were targeted by gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs.
Around 40 people were killed as customers were singled out at venues including a pizza restaurant and a Cambodian restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge.
“We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless. We thought it was fireworks,” Pierre Montfort, a resident living close to Le Petit Cambodge said.
The other target was the Stade de France, on the northern fringe of Paris, where President Hollande and 80,000 other spectators were watching a friendly international between France and Germany, with a TV audience of millions more.
The president was whisked to safety after the first of at least two explosions just outside the venue to convene an emergency cabinet meeting. Three attackers were reportedly killed there.
As the extent of the bloodshed became clear, Mr Hollande went on national TV to announce a state of emergency for the first time in France since 2005. The decree enables the authorities to close public places and impose curfews and restrictions on the movement of traffic and people.
Police believed all of the gunmen were dead – seven killed themselves with explosives vests and one was shot dead by the security forces – but it was unclear if any accomplices were still on the run.
Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and about 1,500 military personnel are being deployed across the city. All schools, museums, libraries, gyms, swimming pools and markets will be shut on Saturday as well as Disneyland Paris.
US President Barack Obama spoke of “an outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians”.
The Vatican called it “an attack on peace for all humanity” and said “a decisive, supportive response” was needed “on the part of all of us as we counter the spread of homicidal hatred in all its forms”.
Analysis: BBC’s Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas
It’s just 10 months since Paris was the scene of multiple terrorist attacks, first the massacre of staff at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and then a hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket.
What happened in Paris on Friday night is exactly what Europe’s security services have long feared, and tried to foil. Simultaneous, rolling attacks, with automatic weapons and suicide bombers in the heart of a major European city, targeting multiple, crowded public locations.
The tactics have been used before, in Mumbai and elsewhere. But how they’ve come to Europe is one of many questions that will have to be answered.
Were the attackers French citizens? If so, how they were radicalised, armed and organised – was it in France, in Syria, and by whom? Why weren’t they detected? Is France, after two major attacks this year, uniquely vulnerable or does the carnage in Paris mean all of Europe faces new threats to our public places and events? And if a Syrian link is proven, will France recoil from that conflict or will it redouble its commitment to the fight against radical groups there?
