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Police, UPDF eject Bobi Wine out of Spice FM radio studios

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Geoffery Serugo
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The security agencies of Police and the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) have forced the National Unity platform’s (NUP) Presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert out of Spice FM radio studios in Hoima moments after introducing himself.

The singer, who paid Shs1 million to appear for a radio talk show, was in the studios to converses for support ahead of the 2021 general elections. Recently the chairman of the Electoral Commission Justice Simon Byabakama revealed that some of the campaigns will be carried out in media as move to curb the spread of the deadly #Covid-19 pandemic.

And last week, Mr. Kyagulanyi was nabbed and charged for acts likely spread $Covid-19. His arrest and detention sparked off protests in various parts of the country and hence leaving over 40 dead.

“We booked and paid to appear on Spice FM radio station in Hoima District. As soon as we got to the station this morning and started introducing ourselves, the police and military cordoned off the building and forcefully ejected us out of the radio station,” Bobi Wine Said.

So far Bobi Wine has been blocked from addressing Ugandans on thirteen radio stations across the country. “Mr. Museveni has been trading violence and intimidations however the time is now for Ugandans to regain their freedom,” he said.

Bobi Wine said that he has written two protest notes to the Electoral commission (EC) and also spoken to Justice Byabakama on phone about continuous blocking of their campaign rallies but he continues to trade ignorance.

“Justice Byabakama admitted that he didn’t know anything, that he didn’t even know that I was arrested or that I am being blocked. I don’t know if the EC passed an order that I am not supposed to use the tarmac roads,” Bobi added.

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Uganda to host MTV Africa Music Awards

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Geoffery Serugo
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MTV Africa and MTV Base have partnered with Uganda to host the continental flagship award show in 2021.

The partnership was announced during a virtual press conference broadcast from Johannesburg and Kampala by Monde Twala and Craig Paterson, Senior Vice Presidents and General Managers at ViacomCBS Networks Africa (VCNA), The State Minister for Tourism, Godfrey Kiwanda at Ugandan Ministry of Tourism and the CEO for the Ugandan Tourism Board, Lilly Ajarova, artist Bebe Cool,  Sheebah Karungi and talented South African rapper Nasty C.

The Iconic MTV Base celebration, MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs), which showcases the ultimate in African culture, music, and creativity, will be held in a re-imagined virtual format in partnership with Uganda, The Pearl of Africa on February 20th 2021.

The MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 will be broadcast on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) and MTV (DStv Channel 130). The repeat show will also be aired on BET Africa, BET International and MTV channels across multiple continents as a one-hour MAMA-themed MTV World Stage feature.

The ultimate celebration of local African and international talent and achievement, MAMA 2021, in partnership with Uganda, The Pearl of Africa, recognizes and rewards musicians, trailblazers and those who are shining a light on the continent’s diverse talent and creativity by instilling positive impact on African music and youth culture over the previous year. The awards ceremony will feature vibrant performances from leading African and international artists and will also showcase some of the biggest cross-genre and cross-border collaborations.

The event will celebrate African talent across 20 award categories, including Best Male, Best Female, Best Song, and Best Collaboration. The contribution of artists from Portuguese and French-speaking Africa will also be recognized in the Best Lusophone and Best Francophone categories. Additional new categories included are the MAMA Generation Change Award, Best Fan Base, Alone Together Best Lock-down Performance and Personality of the Year. These new categories seek to demonstrate MTV Base’s commitment to supporting the youth of Africa.

The MAMA Generation Change Award will recognize the inspiring, young change makers of the continent who are tackling some of the world’s most challenging social problems. The Alone Together Best Lock-down Performance recognizes outstanding performances that took place virtually by celebrating artists who took to streaming services to share their music and unite society during the unprecedented 2020 Lockdown. The category selection criteria are from October 1st 2019 to October 1st 2020.

The nominees will be announced in December 2020 and music lovers will have their say by voting for their favourite stars online.

Peaking during a virtural press briefing, Monde Twala, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VCNA said; “It is an incredible honour to announce that the seventh MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 will be hosted by the vibrantly diverse Uganda, The Pearl of Africa for the first time on February 20th, 2021.”

“We are excited to bring this amazing showcase to audiences across the continent and globally with an innovatively re-imagined awards show and celebration. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, content production has embraced innovation as the new gold and we are excited to take Africa to the World and showcase its immense talent and culture as we stage the biggest music awards show on the continent.”

State Minister for Tourism Uganda Godfrey Kiwanda said; “It is an incredible achievement for Uganda to host the continent and International stakeholders for the MAMA Kampala 2021 for the first time. The awards are an extraordinary African cultural experience, and we understand the important role it plays in driving awareness, cross culture education and profiling the continent’s rich leisure tourism offerings on the international stage.”

“This is a wonderful opportunity for global audiences to experience Uganda’s magnificence, the profusion of brilliant life and diverse natural wildlife, and the vast scale of entertainment, events, art, culture, cuisine, history and shopping. We are also so proud to be able to highlight Uganda’s musical richness and give our talented artists the opportunity to showcase their immense talent, and the diversity of Uganda’s sounds, to music fans beyond this continent. This is indeed a momentous occasion for audiences to experience Uganda as truly The Pearl of Africa.”

The MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 is brought to you by Uganda, The Pearl of Africa in an effort to promote tourism, wildlife and cultural heritage conservation for the socio-economic development and transformation of Uganda. Sustainable tourism, wildlife and cultural heritage will contribute to transforming Uganda into a modern and prosperous nation.

Craig Paterson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VCNA,  noted that the latest edition of the MAMA promises to be our biggest and most innovative yet. Millions of fans worldwide will enjoy the digitally re-imagined celebration and African music via multiple broadcasts globally. We are excited to partner with Uganda to bring viewers a unique format and experience that positions Africa’s diverse heritage and digital innovation.

Always celebrating the pan-African scope of the MAMA, the awards will encompass three pulsating Road to MAMA broadcasts featuring MAMA nominees from across the continent. The MAMA Kampala 2021 brings the much-anticipated music industry workshops in a virtual format for the continent’s aspiring musicians, youth upskilling and development.

First staged in 2008, the MTV Africa Music Awards has recognised the talent of musicians, achievers and personalities from across Africa, rewarding iconic artists and gamechangers such as 2Face Idibia, AKA, Anselmo Ralph, Big Nuz, Cassper Nyovest, Clarence Peters, Cabo Snoop, Davido, D’Banj, Diamond Platnumz, Flavour, Gangs of Ballet, HHP, Fally Ipupa, Liquideep, Lira, Lupita Nyong’o, Mafikizolo Nameless, P-Square, Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage, Toofan, Trevor Noah,  Uhuru, Wahu, Wizkid, Yemi Alade,  Zebra and Giraffe and many more.

MAMA 2021 Award Categories

  1. Best Female
  2. Best Male
  3. Best Group
  4. Best Breakthrough Act
  5. Best Collaboration
  6. Best Hip Hop
  7. Best Alternative
  8. Best Ugandan Act
  9. Best Lusophone Act
  10. Best Francophone Act
  11. Best International Act
  12. Video of the Year
  13. Song of The Year
  14. Artist of the Year
  15. Alone Together Lockdown Performance
  16. Listeners Choice
  17. Best Fan-Base Award
  18. Personality of the Year
  19. MAMA Legend Award
  20. MAMA Generation Change Award
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Farmers supplying Uganda and Nile Breweries lose Shs19b due to continuous closure of bars

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Geoffery Serugo
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In the photo: Stella Keitirima, Twesiga Sosimu and Eria Semaganye

Farmers supplying Uganda Breweries and Nile Breweries have called on the government to consider re-opening of bars with strict observance of COVID-19 standard operating procedures.

Under their umbrella, Farm Uganda Farmers’ Group, they revealed that they have been earning approximately Shs95 billion annually from the breweries to supply locally grown barley, sorghum, maize and cassava, which value has since gone down as bars and nightclubs continue to remain closed. They have since lost revenue worth Shs19b.

Twesiga Sosimu, the Chairman of Farm Uganda Farmers’ Group, said, “Since the lockdown came into effect in March this year, we continue to lose revenue at a steadily increasing pace, which is placing a strain on the livelihoods of approximately 45,000 farmers and about 225,000 dependents. Many of us have had to lay off workers like offloaders and millers, while others have been forced to abandon their grain farms altogether to find other ways of making ends meet.”

He added that before lockdown, over 7,000 farmers under his association were supplying 1,500 metric tonnes of cassava alone to Uganda Breweries per year, which quantity has reduced to 200 metric tonnes in 2020, leading to a loss of revenue amounting to Shs1.3 billion and counting.

Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda’s economy, employing a reported 72% of the population in 2020  and contributing about 24% to Uganda’s gross domestic product in the 2019/20 financial year . The sector accounted for 79% of Uganda’s national poverty reduction between 2006 and 2013, leading to a reduction in the number of Ugandans living below the national poverty line from 31% in 2006 to 20% in 2013 .

This progress has been severely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continued closure of bars is significantly straining their livelihoods and the economy as a whole.

Stella Keitirima, the Director of Stella Keitirima Enterprises, a farmer and supplier of cassava, sorghum and maize to the breweries, said, “With commercial farming, we too invest and plan for the long-term. We employ workers, we get loans and engage in other commitments as part of the brewing value chain that is intertwined. With the bars closed, that breakage in the value chain is being felt all all the way down to the smallholder farmer and casual labourer on the ground.”

The farmers say they are urging all the stakeholders to work together to strictly implement COVID-19 standard operating procedures in bars as the as the increase in consumer demand will lead to increased demand for raw materials from the farmers and in turn result in higher employment opportunities and revenues.

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Covid-19 hits Millennials harder; they are struggling to meet day-to-day expenses

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Geoffery Serugo
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The Standard Chartered’s latest global survey indicates that COVID-19 has had a massive impact on the spending and savings of people across generations, but no group more so than Millennials.

Millennials are the most likely to be struggling to meet day-to-day expenses and report higher levels of borrowing in the last month. Yet, faced with these challenges, the pandemic has galvanised this generation to better prepare for their financial future, encouraging Millennials to make changes to how they manage their money.

The study of 12,000 adults across 12 markets – Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mainland China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, UAE, the UK and the US is the third in a three part series, looking at how COVID-19 has transformed consumers’ way of life, and what changes could be here to stay.

Though the first survey focused on the pandemic’s impact on earnings, and the second looked at changing spending habits, the final survey provides new insights into how the global health crisis has altered the way people are managing their money day-to-day, in pursuit of their long-term goals.

Almost two-thirds of people globally, found managing their money more difficult since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, but Millennials found it the hardest. They are 39 per cent more likely than those over 45 to feel they don’t have control of their bank balance, and 24 per cent more likely to have found meeting day-to-day expenditures, such as household bills, highly challenging. Meanwhile, 35 per cent of Millennials reported that their borrowing has increased in the last month, versus 24 per cent of those aged 45 or over.

Despite these significant challenges, Millennials are the most likely generation to be in active pursuit of their long-term financial goals. Globally, 33 per cent of them are saving for a major purchase such as a new car or home, compared to 18 per cent of those aged 45+, while 35 per cent are trying to save more for retirement, compared to 29 per cent of those aged 45+.

To meet these ambitions, Millennials are the most likely to want to better track and budget their spending. Only 42 per cent want to alter their daily spending and 30 per cent started using a new money management or budgeting app since the pandemic began, with 61 per cent of those who haven’t planning to do so in the next three years.

Globally, Millennials are 79 per cent more likely than those aged 45+ to have started a digital piggy bank; 67 per cent more likely to have started using a money management or budgeting app; and 65 per cent more likely to have started using a savings or investment app for the first time during COVID-19.

Of those who have used new ways to manage their money since the start of COVID-19, the majority of people have had a positive experience. In the markets we surveyed, 65 per cent of Millennials have enjoyed using these tools, compared to half of people aged 45+.

This embrace of new technology to help manage money amid the current economic turmoil may be why Millennials are more confident than any other generation that they can achieve their long-term financial goals. Almost half (46 per cent) are more confident than they were before the pandemic started.

In contrast, only 31 per cent of those aged 45+ feel more confident they’ll reach their financial goals, with those aged 65+ the least confident about achieving their financial goals since the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Meanwhile, across all the generations, the pandemic has made people more careful with their saving and spending and less likely to splurge. When asked what they would do, if given the equivalent of £1,000 by their Government with no strings attached, the most common responses globally were to use the money to pay off debt, cover day-to-day expenses or save for the long-term. Respondents were least likely to spend the money on a holiday, either foreign or within their country.

Aalishaan Zaidi, Global Head Digital Banking at Standard Chartered, said: “The scale of the current crisis has triggered Millennials to ‘come of age’ financially, with many now taking a hard look at their finances and taking more proactive steps to meet their life ambitions.

Millennials, indeed all generations, want more advice and education on how to manage their money with people now realising that being both financially and digitally savvy is a must. Banks have a key role to play in providing accessible advice and effective tools that empower people to plan for an increasingly unpredictable future.”

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#Covid-19 hits Dfcu staff hard putting the bank in a crisis

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Our Reporter
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Covid-19 has seriously hit Dfcu but the bank is hiding the information from the public about its infected staff members.

The infected members of staff are those at Kampala Road branch, former crane chambers where three are sick so far, Ntinda capital shoppers branch where two are sick and are not reporting on duty and other two branches have sick staff members.

Unfortunately, the bank is hiding this information from the public as institutions no longer disclose Covid-19 information to scare away clients.

Coronavirus has increased since Uganda eased on the lockdown. Workplaces and public transport have been identified as key areas where people are getting infected following a relaxation the Standard Operating Procedures.

To date, Uganda has registered 18,890 cases of COVID-19, with 191 deaths.

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Football icon Diego Maradona dies aged 60

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Agencies
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Football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.

The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.

He had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.

Maradona was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, scoring the famous ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the quarter-finals.

In a statement on social media, the Argentine Football Association expressed “its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend”, adding: “You will always be in our hearts.”

Declaring three days of national mourning, Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina, said: “You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of them all.

“Thank you for having existed, Diego. We’re going to miss you all our lives.”

Maradona played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side. He started his career with Argentinos Juniors, also playing for Sevilla, and Boca Juniors and Newell’s Old Boys in his homeland.

He scored 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina, representing them in four World Cups.

Maradona led his country to the 1990 final in Italy, where they were beaten by West Germany, before captaining them again in the United States in 1994, but was sent home after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.

During the second half of his career, Maradona struggled with cocaine addiction and was banned for 15 months after testing positive for the drug in 1991.

He retired from professional football in 1997, on his 37th birthday, during his second stint at Argentine giants Boca Juniors.

Having briefly managed two sides in Argentina during his playing career, Maradona was appointed head coach of the national team in 2008 and left after the 2010 World Cup, where his side were beaten by Germany in the quarter-finals.

He subsequently managed teams in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico and was in charge of Gimnasia y Esgrima in Argentina’s top flight at the time of his death.

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Digital tools teachers can use to support formative assessment

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Our Reporter
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Are you a teacher, and worried about whether your students understand the lessons properly or not? If the answer is, yes! Then you are in the perfect place! Each day, after teaching the lesson, you need to know what your pupils have understood. If you have a grip on their knowledge gaps, then you can regulate your lessons to target them. Well, online assessment tools can help you in this case!

In today’s content, we are going to explain the difference between formative and summative assessments, online tools, and their advantages. If you want to support your students, then read on to know more!

Main Concepts of Formative and Summative Assessments

Different assessment tools that a teacher used can be of two types. One – Formative. Second – Summative. Let’s learn the details of both!

Formative assessment tools:  These are the tools that a teacher used to estimate and guide student’s in the form of quizzes, in-class questions assignments, and discussions. This thing works for better ways, as teachers frequently use the keys in their students’ formative assessment tools to teach their study plans and courses.

Summative Assessments: These tools are specifically made for final essays and tests, provided at the end of a program, course, semester, unit, or school year. Teachers use these to analyze student’s learning by doing a comparison of the performance to a standard. These are high-risk exams with a great point value that estimates heavily into a student’s results.

However, formative assessment is more good than summative as it regularly energizes students to learn properly. Digital formative assessment tools can enable you to motivate students to practice their memorizing goals as a normal and continuous part of their daily workflows. Here we are going to discuss 4 top tools. So, let’s get into it!

Top 4 best digital tools 2020

When we search for Digital tools for formative assessment on Google, we will come across hundreds of tools, but the point to be noted is that not all of them are reliable. Yes! It might be a complicated situation to choose one best tool from hundreds. We understand this problem; that’s why we have explored deeply into the web and came across the four best tools that will be suitable for everyone. Let’s have a look at the list: –

  • Plagiarismdetector.net
  • Ed-Puzzle.
  • Google Class Forms.
  • Quizizz.

Let’s break them down to know what advantages they can offer!

 

  • Plagiarismdetector.net – Plagiarism Tool

 

One of the most meaningful things you require to solve before you start analyzing the quiz test is to ensure that the answers are not plagiarized. Well, you should not analyze their information on the wrong basis, and this is why Plagiarismdetector.net will support you to check plagiarism in assignments tasks. It is a wonderful plagiarism checker that immediately lets you do an accurate plagiarism check of any part of writing. It provides a deeply analyzed report of your content and shows if it has been duplicated from any other source. 

 

  • Ed-Puzzle

 

It is a great formative assessment tool that facilitates the teacher to create a quick assessment of the videos. All you need to do is pick a YouTube video, grab it, or assemble your video accordingly, and then integrate a quiz anywhere. This free tool is really simple to operate from any part of the world. It is a reliable site that doesn’t compromise on user’s privacy and security. Moreover, you will be skillfully able to control the progress and current status of your students. 

 

  • Google Classroom Forms

 

It is a useful formative assessment tool that can check the student’s familiarity with a topic. Google Classroom facilitates the teachers to organize some questions related to the topic and share them with students. This tool also requires you to make these questions into a collaborative quiz or just can be viewed by the teacher. The teachers can handily plan a quick quiz using the Google Form. Well, there will appear a lot of options with the kinds of questions you can inquire about, containing short, easy answers, a passage, multiple-choice questions, or a square grid.

 

  • Quizizz 

 

It is another one of the most incredible tools for formative assessments. Quizizz is a platform with thousands of amazing quizzes accessible for teachers to obtain, or to build their own. Students are provided with a code to enter the quiz contests. If your pupils play an interactive round in the classroom, they can share one gadget, communicate, and provide a shared answer or play it individually, with all of that is having a separate device. Educators can also assign a quiz to be finished as their assignments/home task.

The Bottom Line

Formative assessment has become a big part of every school or classroom and very essential to determine the potential of students respecting their academics. Educators from all over the world use these methods to observe if their students can grab what they are teaching.

Dear Readers! All those as mentioned earlier digital formative assessment tools, including plagiarism checkers, quiz makers, and online lesson makers, will enable you to exactly do that.

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Meet Debretsion Gebremichael, the man giving  Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed headache 

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Agencies
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The 57-year-old has cast the conflict as resistance to a push by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to centralise power, which the government denies, accusing his movement of revolt.

He is leading the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a former rebel movement that spearheaded the toppling of a Marxist dictatorship in 1991 before going on to dominate a coalition government until Abiy’s appointment in 2018.

Here are some facts on Debretsion and the three-week old conflict:

FOUNDER OF ‘REVOLUTION’ RADIO

Debretsion joined the TPLF as a teenager and was sent to Italy to learn communications and technology.

He led the team behind “Dimtsi Woyane” (“Voice of the Revolution” in the Tigrinya language) radio around 1980, which the bush fighters used to connect with people as they endured aerial bombings, according to a 2018 book.

The radio broadcast propaganda, reports on the Marxist-Leninist rebel movement’s meetings, and programmes ranging from basic medicine to agriculture and literacy.

Debretsion and his colleagues carried portable equipment to avoid detection, moving it on donkeys and camels and hiding it in caves, academic Nicole Stremlau wrote in her book “Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa”.

SURVEILLANCE AND TELECOMS

After the TPLF took power in 1991, Debretsion obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Addis Ababa University. He entered high-level politics in 2005.

He chaired Ethio Telecom, the state telecoms monopoly, after serving as deputy director of the national intelligence agency – underscoring the agency’s grip on communications, Human Rights Watch noted in a 2014 report.

He also led a programme that rolled out government technology services and gave the state access to email accounts and personal information of civil servants, the rights watchdog said.

As communications and information technology minister and later as deputy prime minister, he signed agreements with Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei.

POWER, NILE DAM

During the same period, he also chaired the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation and tried to modernise the creaking power sector that now serves 115 million people.

He oversaw the construction of hydropower dams, the biggest of which is the $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile river. Both Egypt and Sudan fear the dam may limit their access to the Nile’s waters.

Debretsion was replaced as chair of the state power utility in late April 2018, shortly after Abiy took office.

ELECTION

Debretsion is known within his party, which elected him as chairman in 2017, as a shy workaholic. He cemented his position as the region’s leader when it decided to hold an election in September in defiance of the federal government, which postponed voting nationwide due to due to COVID-19.

The TPLF won more than 98% of the vote.

Abiy’s government declared the vote illegal and has set up a transitional administration in parts of Tigray taken by federal troops since Nov. 4.

Debretsion is on a list of TPLF leaders whom the government says must surrender or be captured before any negotiations to end the conflict can begin.

“We are people of principle and ready to die in defence of our right to administer our region,” Debretsion said in a text to Reuters this week.

A WARNING

The TPLF accuses Abiy, who is of mixed Oromo-Amharic parentage, of singling out high-level Tigrayan officials in a crackdown on past abuses and corruption. Abiy’s office denies that and says the prime minister has tried to work with the TPLF but was rebuffed.

“Youth of Tigray, be prepared for all eventualities,” local media quoted Debretsion as saying at an event in the Tigray regional capital Mekelle in December 2018, less than a year after Abiy took office.

Asked by Reuters what the comment meant, TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda said Debretsion was not implying that conflict was inevitable but that “if push comes to shove, we don’t have to scramble for crash military training.”

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East Africa should brace for locusts-FAO warns

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A UN agency has warned of fresh waves of desert locust swarms in the Horn of Africa region after Cyclone Gati arrived in Somalia.

The heavy rainfall is expected to allow widespread breeding.

The swarms are expected to move south in Somalia and Ethiopia, reaching northern Kenya, from the second week of December, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

It warned that the scale of the migration could be substantial.

Earlier in the year, billions of the insects destroyed crops across the region – with the UN warning a second generation would be even more destructive.

It was the worst invasion of locusts for more than 70 years.

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Escape to Dubai this winter and enjoy a free hotel stay on Emirates

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Geoffery Serugo
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Emirates is making winter getaways to Dubai even more attractive with a complimentary stay at the JW Marriot Marquis Dubai, one of the world’s tallest 5-star hotels. The skyscraper hotel features award-winning dining options, its own shopping galleria and a world-renowned spa; and is conveniently located near attractions like the Dubai Mall, Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Opera.

Customers who book return Economy tickets to Dubai from 2 to 23 December for travel from 6 Dec 2020 to 28 Feb 2021 will be eligible for a complimentary one-night stay at the JW Marriot Marquis on their first night in Dubai. While travellers booked in First and Business Class will receive two complimentary nights’ stay from the day of arrival. For more information visit: www.emirates.com/uganda

The airline also provides generous baggage allowance; passengers returning to Emirates destinations in North and South America, or Africa can go home with one extra piece of luggage. Those travelling to other destinations within the Emirates network can take advantage of an additional 10 kilograms baggage allowance. Fly better on Emirates and enjoy over 4,500 channels of entertainment on ice – the airline’s award-winning inflight entertainment system, as well as regionally inspired meals and complimentary beverages.

Emirates customers can travel with peace of mind with the airline’s flexible booking options and newly introduced multi-risk travel insurance including COVID-19 cover with every flight. Emirates has also implemented a comprehensive set of measures at every step of the customer journey to ensure the safety of its customers and employees.

Emirates has been rated the safest airline in the world in its response to the COVID-19 Pandemic according to the Safe Travel Barometer. It has the highest ‘Safe Travel Score’ among 230+ airlines evaluated worldwide. The score is based on an independent audit of 26 health and safety parameters evaluating safety protocols, traveller convenience and service excellence announced by airlines.

Dubai is open and ready to welcome tourists with the highest levels of safety protocols in place to keep its residents and visitors safe. The vibrant, cosmopolitan city has an eclectic mix of offerings including impressive beaches, world-class shopping, and fine dining restaurants.

As a safety precaution, all passengers arriving in Dubai must take a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test up to four days prior to their date of travel (maximum 96 hours). You may be required to take another test at Dubai Airports upon arrival. Children under the age of 12 and passengers with a severe or moderate disability are exempt from the PCR test.

Masks and social distancing: In Dubai, it is mandatory to wear a mask in public places at all times including on Emirates flights, however children below the age of six who struggle with wearing masks are exempted from wearing them.  You can remove your mask when you are seated at a restaurant or café. Social distancing is also practised throughout the city and at all venues including on public transport.

Hotels, malls and indoor venues: Hotels in Dubai including the JW Marriot Marquis use contactless check in and rooms are sanitised for safety. All indoor venues including malls enforce mandatory temperature checks at the entrance and employ digital safety guidelines including contactless menus at restaurants.

Outdoor activities: Dubai is a haven for thrill seekers and all outdoor and sports activities are operating with safety restrictions and protocols. This includes helicopter rides, hot air balloons, desert safari, desert camping, dhow cruises, kayaking and more. All sports activities that can be practised individually or with 5 people or less have resumed. This includes sky diving and renting of jet skis, boats and bicycles.

Dubai’s beaches are open and safe with social distancing. Global Village has also opened on 25 October 2020 for its 25th season, with strict precautionary measures in place.

Flexibility and assurance: Emirates’ booking policies offer customers flexibility and confidence to plan their travel. Customers who purchase an Emirates ticket for travel on or before 31 March 2021, can enjoy generous rebooking terms and options, if they have to change their travel plans. Customers have options to change their travel dates or extend their ticket validity for 2 years.

Free, global cover for COVID-19 related costs: Customers can now travel with confidence, as Emirates has committed to cover COVID-19 related medical expenses, free of cost, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel while they are away from home. This cover is immediately effective for customers flying on Emirates until 31 December 2020, and is valid for 31 days from the moment they fly the first sector of their journey. This means Emirates customers can continue to benefit from the added assurance of this cover, even if they travel onwards to another city after arriving at their Emirates destination.

Health and safety: Emirates has implemented a comprehensive set of measures at every step of the customer journey to ensure the safety of its customers and employees on the ground and in the air, including the distribution of complimentary hygiene kits containing masks, gloves, hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes to all customers. For more information on these measures and the services available on each flight.

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