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𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐏
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𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
*JANUARY 16, 2023*
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🇺🇬 *P𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢 bans MPs, Civil Servants foreign travel*
📌President Museveni has banned foreign travel of Members of Parliament and senior civil servants in the latest move to save the Government from unnecessary expenditures. The savings from the foreign trips will be used to fund critical Government projects. The President issued the directive while commissioning new structures at the Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba (UPIK) in Kiryandongo on Saturday.
“Some of them just want money to travel abroad. Tell the civil servants, MPs, and all politicians to stop traveling abroad. Money is wasted on external travel, and here Kigumba is crying out for money. This is really poor planning,” said President Museveni.

🇺🇬 *UBOS to form 2023 National Census committees ahead of February launch*
📌The Executive Director Uganda Bureau of Statistics Godfrey Nabongo, in a letter dated January 12, directed  Chief Administrative Officers and town clerks across the country to coordinate and establish committees to undertake census advocacy and publicity for the NPH August 2023. The census committees will also be formed at the Districts, municipalities, cities, Divisions, Sub Counties, parishes and village levels in a period of two weeks before the program launch in February.

🇺🇬 *Uganda’s High Commissioner to Kenya is dead*
📌Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga, the Minister of East African affairs has announced that the Uganda High Commissioner to Kenya and Seychelles, Dr. Hassan Galiwango, has died. Galiwango died Monday morning at Nairobi Hospital where he had been admitted.

🇺🇬 *Two districts fight over Palorinya subcounty*
📌Obongi District is still embroiled in conflict with its mother District Moyo over who owns the Palorinya sub-county. The Sub county hosts the Palorinya Refugee Settlement. In December last year, the Constitutional Court ordered Parliament and the Local Government Ministry to return to the ground and consult the people of Palorinya Subcounty on where they prefer to belong.

🇺🇬 *KCCA to use technology to ease service delivery in Kampala*
📌While meeting the Rotary Club of Kampala on the Smart City agenda and planned improvements in the City, Kisaka Dorothy Kisaka, the KCCA ED  launched 60 Applications that will enable Kampala City dwellers to be served better. They include; the smart permit, you can apply online and get your planning permit, pay revenue online, get your building permit and get sanitation help using the Weyonje App, among others.

🇺🇬 *Karamojong warriors kill UPDF soldier, steal gun*
📌Security forces in Karamoja sub-region are hunting for suspected cattle rustlers from Matheniko who attacked UPDF soldiers at Lobunariye village, Kosike sub-county in Nabilatuk district, shot  Private Bainomugisha Asaph and took off with his gun. Brig Gen Joseph Balikudembe, the UPDF 3rd division commander condemned the act, and that the assailants  will pay for it.

🇺🇬 *WFP, Gulu university partner to improve food productivity among refugees*
📌Gulu University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme (WFP) to improve food productivity among refugee communities and the host communities in the Northern Region.The MoU was signed on Thursday between the WFP delegation headed by the Country Representative Abdirahman Meygag and Professor George Openjuru Ladaah, the Vice Chancellor of Gulu University.

🇺🇬 *RUKIGA: Calls for crossborder meetings as theft cases on  Borders become rampant*
📌Authorities on Friday  called for cross-border meetings between Rwanda and Uganda to address rampant theft cases around the borders. This was during the handover of 39 cows which were on Tuesday stolen from Rushojwa Cell, Kibanda Parish, Kamwezi Sub County in Rukiga district to Rwanda at Buziba customs in Rwamatuguru.

🇺🇬 *MASINDI: MP wants Kihonda Demonstration farm land diverted for new Bunyoro University*
📌The Buruuli County Member of Parliament, Akuguzibwe Aled Ronald in  December asked Masindi District Chairperson to divert 100 acres of Kihonda Demonstration Farm land needed for the construction of Bunyoro University- New Greater Masindi Campus.

🇺🇬 *KAMULI: East African Re-awaken Revival Convention to bring together 2000 Christians*
📌Born-again Christians will host the East African Re-awaken Revival Connection Convention, an international convention from January 12-14 at Kamuli Girls Secondary School in Kamuli District. The chief organiser Maj. Kayima Margret says the convention will bring together more than 2000 Christians from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa.

🇺🇬 *SIRONKO: Director UPDF Royal Guards rallies Bamasaaba to embrace Government poverty alleviation programs*
📌The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Director for Royal Guards, Col. Kato Kalyebara on Friday mobilised the Bamasaaba cultural leaders to promote peace, Education, Health and Environmental conservation, and embrace the Parish Development Model program to fight poverty in families.

🇺🇬 *SIRONKO: US-based NGO establishes Women micro finance*
📌W.M.I International, a A Non-Governmental Organisation, on Friday  commissioned a Women’s Microfinance Initiative in Gombe Gasawa Town Council, Sironko District, with headquarters in Buyobo Sub County.  The Project Director Robyn G. Nietert said the project will increase access to credit among women.

🇺🇬 *BUHWEJU:12-year-old boy commits suicide*
📌Residents of Kitooha I in Butare ward, Kashenyi – Kajani Town Council are still in shock after a 12 year-old boy, one  Ayebazibwe, a pupil of Kajani Junior Primary School was found hanging dead on an avocado tree on Thursday. Residents say the deceased had a mental disorder.

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🌍 *KENYA: President Ruto Commissions Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University Research Hub*
📌 William Ruto on Saturday commissioned a blue economy research hub at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology in Siaya. He was received by Governor James Orengo and other senators.

🌍 *KENYA: FKF suspends 16 players and coaches for match-fixing*
📌Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has suspended 14 players and two coaches for match-fixing after receiving a tip-off about cheating in the national league.

🌍 *TANZANIA: Opposition Leader to end his exile*
📌Tanzanian Opposition Leader and former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu said he will return home this month from exile in Europe after the Government lifted a ban on political rallies.
“With the lifting of the illegal ban on political activity, it’s now time to return home and get back to work,” Lissu wrote late on Friday on Twitter, saying he would arrive on Jan. 25.

🌍 *DRC: Military receives arms from Turkey*
📌The Democratic Republic of Congo has received military equipment from Turkey, with Ankara showing intent to tighten relations with Kinshasa after the nation was freed to purchase weapons from the global market.

🌍 *Iran hangs former Defence Ministry official for spying for UK*
📌Iran has executed a former deputy defence minister, Alireza Akbari, a British-Iranian dual national on allegations of spying for the United Kingdom.

🌍 *China reports 59,938 COVID-related hospital deaths*
📌 Jiao Yahui, head of the Bureau of Medical Administration under the National Health Commission (NHC), told a media briefing on Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since China dismantled its zero-COVID policy in early December.