Ugandan actress lands role in Hollywood movie titled Little America

By website writer Ugandan singer and renowned film star Susan Basemera also known as Zani Lady C is milling with Hollywood stars. Basemera who is based in the UK has continued to prove she is raising the Ugandan flag a notch higher. As you read this, she is one of the Africans that featured in […]
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Supercars, houses and suits: Equatorial Guinea's first son and VP

Groups fighting graft in Africa see a ready symbol for their campaign in Teodorin Obiang, the playboy son of Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

The slick-haired scion has a fondness for parties, supercars, fancy suits, jewellery, yachts and the company of hip hop stars, documenting many of his exploits on Instagram. The 50-year-old is the oldest son of Africa's longest-serving leader. 

As vice president, he has been groomed to succeed his father as head of a state awash with oil but mired in poverty and a reputation for corruption. Transparency International rates Equatorial Guinea 173rd out of 180 countries on its 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index.

A Paris court last week upheld a three-year suspended jail term against the younger Obiang and handed him a 30-million-euro ($32.9 million) fine for using public money to buy a six-floor Paris home and luxury cars.

He becomes the first African leader to be sentenced in France for allegedly ill-gotten gains, although his assets have also been targeted in the United States and Switzerland.

'Something exceptional'

Seemingly unabashed, within 40 minutes of the court's verdict, Obiang posted a video clip on social media showing him on a luxury motorbike in the capital Malabo.

In a profile by French TV at the turn of the millennium, he talked with pride of his wine collection, of buying 30 suits at once from top-market tailors and was filmed at the wheel of his cars, ranging from a Bentley and a Rolls-Royce to a Ferrari and a Lamborghini.

"I'm always looking for something exceptional," he said on camera to a jeweller who was showing him a watch worth more than 22,250 euros ($23,250).

Obiang was just 10 when in 1979 his father overthrew his bloodthirsty uncle, the dictator Francisco Macias Nguema. In the 1980s, the new leader's son was enrolled in the select Ecole des Roches in Normandy, northwest France, a school that prides itself on educating the offspring of leaders from all over the world.

Keen to live it up in Paris, Rio and the United States, Obiang was not even 30 when his father appointed him minister of Forests in 1997 in his tropical homeland. In the government post until 2012, Obiang was considered the godfather of the lucrative timber trade, but at the same time oil exports began to bring previously unimaginable wealth.

Most of the country's 1.2 million people live below the poverty threshold on less than two dollars a day, according to several economic indicators. In 2016, President Obiang — freshly elected with more than 90 per cent of the vote — named his son vice president.

Teodorin Obiang used this appointment to argue in vain at the International Court of Justice in The Hague that he had diplomatic immunity and could not be prosecuted in France.

'Relentless embezzlement'

In 2014, the US Justice Department forced Obiang to hand over more than $30 million in assets purchased with the proceeds of corruption. It estimated that he used his position and influence as a minister to amass wealth of more than $300 million.

"Through relentless embezzlement and extortion, [he] shamelessly looted his government and shook down businesses in his country to support his lavish lifestyle, while many of his fellow citizens lived in extreme poverty," it said.

The assets he forked over to settle the case included a $30-million mansion in Malibu, a Ferrari and various items of Michael Jackson memorabilia. In 2016, Swiss authorities seized 25 of Obiang's supercars and last year sold them at an auction, raising 21 million euros for social work in Equatorial Guinea.

And in 2018, the Brazilian police seized more than $16 million in cash and luxury watches in the luggage of a delegation accompanying Obiang.

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Eddy Kenzo denied performance at Maro’s Anjagala concert

By Derrick Asaba While at the Anjagala concert where Maro was celebrating ten years in the music industry at Mestil Hotel, some artists were denied room for performing. Some of these were singers Eddy Kenzo and Nina Roz who after this incident were seen vacating the place immediately. One of the organisers told The Kampala Sun that […]
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Gov’t asks court to dismiss suit against junk food

The government has asked court to dismiss a case in which it is accused of failing to protect Ugandans from the influx of junk food

Civil Society Organization Health Equity and Policy Initiative (HEAPI) and Anthony Odur, a health rights activist sued government in December last year saying that lives of especially children were being put in danger by the government's failure to regulate, among others, labels on food products and their advertisement. 

Also sued together with the government is the National Children Authority, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC). HEAPI sought for conspicuous healthy warnings on labels of unhealthy foods and beverages in their application. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to them, research shows that graphic health warnings on food packages similar to those used on cigarette or alcohol packs can prompt people to abandon pleasure-seeking impulses and choose healthier foods.  

But state attorney Samuel Tusubira says the suit is premature and misconceived because the Ministry of Health and various institutions have from time to time issued circulars that highlight the knowledge and attitudes of behavioural change to communities in food and nutrition-related matters. 

He cites policies that advance proper nutrition like the presidential initiative on healthy eating and healthy living and the food and nutrition policy of 2003 where the goal of government is ensuring that food accessed by the population is nutritious, safe and conforms to acceptable standards. 

Tusubira said the issue of deceptive and misleading advertisements is being addressed in the Consumer Protection Bill currently tabled before parliament.

He also noted that UHRC as the third respondent doesn't have a mandate to make any regulations or enforce regulations regarding the operations of restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and coffee shops and that they can only intervene by carrying out an investigation at their own initiative or on a complaint made against the violation of any human right.

Tusubira said the application is premature and wants it dismissed with costs.

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Tanzanian Star Harmonize Arrives In Uganda Ahead Of Africa Laughs Season 5

Tanzania's bongo flava artiste Harmonize is in the country to spice up the most sought out comedy fest, the day being Valentines, Konde boy will be entertaining the revellers with his love ballads. Harmonize arrived into the country today at 6:00pm aboard Uganda Airlines, the official airline sponsors of the Singleton Africa Laughs.  While addressing […]

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Spice Diana’s manager signs Chozen blood

By Joan Murungi Spice Diana's manager Roger Lubega has signed singer Chozen blood to his Source Music management. Before, Roger has been managing only singer Spice Diana and Chozen blood has been another artiste that has been signed to his management. However, the two have been reluctant to disclose the details of the signed deal. […]
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Bebe Cool’s reasoning is fake- Gravity

By Hussein Kiganda Uganda is full of drama. Everybody looks for ways of survival. Gravity’s reign seems to be dwindling . Having failed to stir himself up for 2020, Gravity looks to be planning a come-on-scene strategy which no one seems to understand. In one of his interviews on one of the TVs in town, […]
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