Okulonda kwa Ssentebe wa NRM e Mityna kuzzeemu kigoye wezinge

Bya Sofi Nalule   Okulonda Sentebe wa NRM owa disitulikiti ye Mityana kwawuddemu abawagizi n'abamu ku babadde besunga okukwatira ekibiina bendera.   Wetwogerera bino nga Abraham Luzzi aludde nga...

Good News: Apple’s Low-Cost iPhone To Hit Market Soon

Truth be told, iPhone has a very good position on the list of good mobile phones in the world. It's a dream gadget to many people but because if its high cost (if you need a brand new one), owning one is still a mystery It's for that matter that Apple decided to manufacture a […]

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Mukuume obumu musobole okwekulaakulanya

Bya Lilian Nalubega Bazzukulu ba Nsamba abeddira Engabi balamaze ku butaka bwabwe e Buwanda omutaka Nsamba n'abakuutira omwaka guno bagutambulize ku mulamwa ogw'okuba obumu n'okukola ennyo basobole...

3 Chinese cities on lockdown over deadly virus

China decided Thursday to lock down three cities that are home to more than 18 million people in an unprecedented effort to try to contain a deadly new viral illness that has sickened hundreds and spread to other cities and countries in the Lunar New Year travel rush.

Police, SWAT teams and paramilitary troops guarded Wuhan's train station, where metal barriers blocked the entrances at 10 am sharp. Only travellers holding tickets for the last trains were allowed to enter, with those booked for later trains being turned away.

Normally bustling streets, shopping malls, restaurants and other public spaces in the city of 11 million people were eerily quiet. In addition to the train station, airport, ferry, subway and bus services were also halted.

Similar measures will take effect from Friday in the nearby cities of Huanggang and Ezhou. Theatres, internet cafes and other entertainment centres were also ordered closed, further increasing the economic costs of the response to the outbreak.

"To my knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science," Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization's representative in China, told The Associated Press in an interview at the WHO's Beijing office. "It has not been tried before as a public health measure. We cannot at this stage say it will or it will not work."

The illnesses from a newly identified coronavirus first appeared last month in Wuhan, an industrial and transportation hub in central China's Hubei province. The vast majority of mainland China's 571 cases have been in the city.

Other cases have been reported in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. One case was confirmed Thursday in Hong Kong after one was earlier confirmed in Macao. Most cases outside China were people from Wuhan or who had recently travelled there.

A total of 17 people have died, all of them in and around Wuhan. Their average age was 73, with the oldest 89 and the youngest 48. Images obtained from inside Wuhan following the closure showed long lines and empty shelves at supermarkets, as residents stocked up for what could be weeks of relative isolation.

That appeared to be an over-reaction, since no restrictions have been placed on trucks carrying supplies into the city, although many Chinese still have strong memories of shortages and privations in the years before the country's recent economic boom. Such sweeping measures are typical of China's authoritarian communist government, although their effectiveness in containing the outbreak remains uncertain.

Local authorities in Wuhan have demanded all residents wear masks in public places and urged government staff to wear them at work and for shopkeepers to post signs for their visitors, Xinhua news agency quoted a government notice as saying.

Xinhua cited the city's anti-virus task force as saying the measures were taken in an attempt to "effectively cut off the virus spread, resolutely curb the outbreak and guarantee the people's health and safety."

Liu Haihan left Wuhan last Friday after visiting her boyfriend there. She said everything was normal then, before human-to-human transmission of the virus was confirmed. But things have changed rapidly.

"(My boyfriend) didn't sleep much yesterday. He disinfected his house and stocked up on instant noodles," Liu said. "He's not really going out. If he does he wears a mask."

The significant increase in illnesses reported just this week come as millions of Chinese travel for the Lunar New Year, one of the world's largest annual migrations of people. Chinese are expected to take an estimated 3 billion trips during the 40-day spike in travel.

While state broadcaster CCTV has largely ignored the outbreak to emphasize traditional observances of the festival, reports have filtered in of events such as temple fairs being canceled in cities including Beijing.

Analysts have predicted the reported cases will continue to multiply.

"Even if (the number of cases) are in the thousands, this would not surprise us," the WHO's Galea said, adding, however, that the number of cases is not an indicator of the outbreak's severity, so long as the mortality rate remains low.

The coronavirus family includes the common cold as well as viruses that cause more serious illnesses, such as the SARS outbreak that spread from China to more than a dozen countries in 2002-2003 and killed about 800 people, and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, which developed from camels.

China is keen to avoid repeating mistakes with its handling of SARS. For months, even after the illness had spread around the world, China parked patients in hotels and drove them around in ambulances to conceal the true number of cases and avoid WHO experts.

In the current outbreak, China has been credited with sharing information rapidly, and President Xi Jinping has emphasized that as a priority.

"Party committees, governments and relevant departments at all levels must put people's lives and health first," Xi said Monday. "It is necessary to release epidemic information in a timely manner and deepen international cooperation."

Health authorities were taking extraordinary measures to prevent additional person-to-person transmissions, placing those suspected to be infected in plastic tubes and wheeled boxes where air passed through filters.

The first cases in the Wuhan outbreak were connected to people who worked at or visited a seafood market, which has since been closed for an investigation. Experts suspect the virus was first transmitted from wild animals but the virus also may be mutating. Mutations can make it deadlier or more contagious.

WHO plans another meeting of scientific experts Thursday on whether to recommend declaring the outbreak a global health emergency, which it defines as an "extraordinary event" that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.

Many countries are screening travelers from China for illness, especially those arriving from Wuhan. North Korea has banned foreign tourists, a step it also took during the SARS outbreak and in recent years due to Ebola. Most foreigners going to North Korea are Chinese or travel there through neighboring China.

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Comedian Salvado Idringi To Celebrate 10 Years In The Industry As Africa Laughs Returns

February 14th 2020 which will be Valentine's Day will also be one of the most memorable and special days in the life of award-winning comedian Patrick 'Salvado' Idringi as he will be celebrating 10 years in the industry as well as his 35th Birthday. Salvado who is arguably Uganda's funniest man is set to take […]

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With inequality rising, does the world really need billionaires?

As world leaders rub shoulders with billionaire executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of cities around the world demanding action against growing inequality.

The WEF, in the ski resort of Davos-Klosters, has been an annual event for the world's richest elite since its foundation in 1971. It has also become an anathema for those who claim global inequality is out of control. In cities around the world including Nairobi, Delhi, Manila and London, thousands of people joined street protests in the run up to the forum.

Antonia Musonga, who is coordinating protests in Kenya under the Fighting Equality Alliance, explained why his group has taken to the streets of Nairobi.

"The time to abolish billionaires is now," Musonga told VOA. "Because what it means for us is that those people with a lot of wealth, they also have access to power, privilege, influence over our democracy and how we live our lives today."

There are over 2,100 billionaires in the world. A report by charity group Oxfam says they own more wealth than the poorest 4.6 billion people on Earth -  and the gap between rich and poor is widening, with half the world's population living in poverty.

Anti-government demonstrations have erupted in more than 30 countries in recent months, from Chile to France, South Africa to South Korea. Their political aims may vary but they share the same anger, says Oxfam's Amitabh Behar.

"Across the world, there is a narrative of anger," Behar said. "People are coming to the streets and they're essentially asking, 'do we need billionaires in this world?' And that's the critical question that the World Economic Forum should try and answer. The billionaires need to pay their taxes but I think the real responsibility lies with the government. Government needs to ensure that everybody pays the right taxes."

A global survey by the American public relations firm Edelman shows that rising income inequality is undermining confidence in capitalism around the world, with 56 per cent of respondents saying it was doing more harm than good, despite a year of economic growth in many developed countries.

"I think people in the developed countries had had an idea that, in fact, you work hard, you're going to make it to the next level in the next generation. That's not true now," says Edelman's Chief Executive Officer, Richard Edelman.

The forum's founder, Klaus Schwab, insists Davos is not just a mountaintop billionaire's party.

"It's a place where you really can talk to the leaders of governments, business and so on, and you'll find good open ears to listen to you and to act together with you," Schwab said on the eve of the summit.

With the focus this year on the climate emergency and campaigner Greta Thunberg a star speaker, Davos is doing its best to shed its image as a hideaway for the super-rich. Most observers say there's some way to go yet.

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Amaanyi gange gaakendeera

NNINA emyaka 27 naye amaanyi g'ekisajja ndabika nnina matono. Bwe mala okwegatta ndwawo okuddamu okuyunga. Nkolera safaali era obudde obusinga nkomawo nga njagala kusanyusa mukyala wange. Njagala ddagala....

Body of Ugandan shot dead in Rwanda repatriated

The body of a Ugandan national, Teojen Ndagijimana recently shot dead last week by Rwandan security operatives has been brought back into the country.

Ndagijimana, 25, a resident of Kabingo village, Murora sub-county in Kisoro district was shot dead on Saturday at Kumugu trading centre Musanze district in Rwanda, about three kilometres away from the Ugandan border.

Ndagijmana was shot together with two Rwandans, Erike Biizimana and Emmanuel Mbabazi - all residents of Burera in Rwanda. According to residents, Ndagijimana and his brother identified as Augustine Gatsiri had crossed to Rwanda through the porous border to smuggle into Rwanda tea bags.

Each of them was carrying a sack containing teabags worth 35 kilograms. Ndagijmana's body was handed over today Wednesday to Ugandan authorities at Chanika border at around 12:30 pm amidst tight security from both countries.The body was taken to Chahafi health centre IV for post-mortem.

Burera district mayor, Marie Chantal Uwanyirigira and senior superintendent of police, Jean Bosco Rudasingwa led the Rwandan delegation while Uganda's delegation was led by Captain Peter Mugisha, Kisoro resident district commissioner, Ruhunde Christopher and James Nsaba Buturo the MP for Bujumbura County East.

Rwandan security operatives had reportedly planned to hand over the body yesterday Tuesday night at around 10:00 pm, but Ugandan authorities rejected the move, questioning the motive of handing over the body in darkness. 

While handing over the body, Uwanyirigira said that although the shooting incident is unfortunate, Ugandans must desist from crossing to Rwanda through porous borders because Rwandan security have orders that they will follow to the latter. She said that Rwandan laws strongly prohibit smuggling and drug trafficking. 

"We're sorry as Rwandans, it was not a planned action because we're friends and the only message I can tell all Rwandans and Ugandans is to respect the order from Rwanda and all countries. In Rwanda, it is not allowed to use drugs and transport drugs. It is not allowed. Also, smuggling is not good and the only reason [they were shot] is because when they have been arrested by our security officials, they tried to be aggressive towards our security organs. It was a way of handling the case because they wanted to kill our security organs. The incident took place when he was with two people from Rwanda and the Rwandans are also dead. But next time it is good to respect the order we have." said Uwanyirigira.

Captain Mugisha urged Ugandans to remain calm and not retaliate in any form despite being annoyed at the shootings since Rwanda closed its border to Uganda in February 2019. In November last year, Rwandan security officials also shot and killed two Ugandans John Bosco Tuhirirwe, 30, a resident of Nyakabungo village in Kyabihangwa parish and Job Byarushaga, 37 for illegally crossing into Rwanda.

Earlier in May 2019, John Batista Ncherengye, a Rwandan national and Alex Nyesiga Atuheire, a Ugandan national and resident of Nyakabungo village in Rukiga district in western Uganda were shot dead admittedly by Rwandan security officers from inside Ugandan territory. 

"People are not happy and will not be happy. You cannot lose your beloved one and become happy. Let us first burry then we shall come back to sit with the LCs in meetings to see how best we can handle the situation since the government is handling the situation government to government. For us, we're going to handle the situation as locals. But I tell them not to be so annoyed to the level of fighting." said Mugisha. 

Ugandans stage a peaceful protest at the Uganda-Rwanda border following the killing of Teojen Ndagijimana

Ever since Rwanda closed its borders with Uganda to purportedly expedite the construction of the single customs at Gatuna border tensions between the two countries have hit pitch high. Several delegations and meetings set out by either country have failed to resolve the outstanding issues and the mantle has now been passed unto Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame.

The presidents, it had been reported were set to hold talks in London, during the UK-Africa Investment Summit this week but no further communication has since come out of both camps to suggest that the meeting indeed took place. Kagame accuses Ugandan authorities of abducting Rwandan citizens and locking them up in ungazetted areas.

He also accuses Uganda of hosting and facilitating dissidents especially Rwanda National Congress and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, who have declared war on the Kigali government.

Rwanda advised its citizens against travelling to Uganda, saying it can't guarantee their safety and even those seeking education, food and health services have been blocked. Uganda, on the other hand, accuses Rwanda of infiltrating its security agencies including the army, police and intelligence organs to carry out espionage activities. Earlier this month, Uganda withdrew charges of illegal possession of firearms from nine Rwandans and freed them back to Rwanda as 'gesture of goodwill' aimed at cooling the tensions. 

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Huge tree blocks Kampala-Jinja road

Traffic flow along the Kampala-Jinja road has been paralysed after a huge tree fell in the middle of the road in Banda.

The eucalyptus tree fell on the road at around 12 pm. Motorists were stuck for several hours along the busy road stretching from Kyambogo all the way to Kireka.

The tree hit one vehicle whose driver was yet-to-be identified. Kintu Kiryoowa an eyewitness said the tree fell abruptly hitting the Corona. Another woman who identified herself as Natukunda said the driver was removed from the car unconscious and rushed to hospital. 

Fire brigade team, traffic and OCs from Banda and Jinja road were deployed to cut and remove the fallen tree. 

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