𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐏

𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐏

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𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐

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🇺🇬𝐊𝐂𝐂𝐀 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞

📌Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has intensified measures to respond to the Ebola outbreak in the city. Over the weekend, the Ministry of Health announced a rise in the number of infections within the city center. Dr. Alex Ndyabakira, the City Incident Commander says that the authority has activated their response teams in the five divisions of Kampala to respond to any alert that is reported from communities, as well as following up on contacts of Ebola victims.

🇺🇬Senior Four student punches security guard to death

📌A Senior 4 student at Luzira Senior Secondary School punched a security guard only identified as Geoffrey to death. According to the Deputy Police Spokesperson Kampala Metropolitan Luke Owoyesigyire, the incident happened yesterday Tuesday 25th October 2022, and the student is currently on the run.

🇺🇬𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧

📌Doctors under their umbrella, the Uganda Medical Association have recommended that stringent measures including a lockdown be considered for Kampala to avoid skyrocketing of Ebola cases in the country. The development follows the increase of Ebola cases in greater Kampala which have risen to 15 in the last 48 hours.

🇺🇬𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐢 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲

📌The Police in Soroti City have arrested five members of a criminal gang who have been terrorizing residents in the area. Those arrested are Vincent Opolon, 68, Ronald Kato, 45, Isaac Opolon, 22, Peter Eyamu, 44, and Justine Opali. The group was arrested following the robbery of Shs68 million from a businesswoman Stella Apolot on 11th October 2022. It is alleged that the thugs connived with a Boda- Boda cyclist Joseph Eligu to attack the victim who was carrying money in her handbag from home around 7:00 pm.

🇺🇬𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 “𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬” 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐌𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝

📌The Kadhi of Wakiso Muslim District, Sheikh Erias Kigozi has asked Muslims to shun those discouraging them from commemorating the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Kigozi made the remarks while presiding over celebrations to commemorate the birth of Prophet Muhammad at Luzige Mosque at Mengo Hill Road in Kampala.

🇺🇬𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯. 𝐅𝐫 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐢𝐛𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐞

📌The Apostolic Nunciature of Uganda has announced the appointment of Rev. Fr. Dominic Eibu as the new bishop of Kotido diocese. According to the representative of Pope Francis in Uganda, Luigi Bianco, Rev. Fr. Eibu was appointed by Pope Francis on 25th October, 2022. He replaces Rt. Rev. Guiseppe Filippi who resigned upon reaching the canonical age limit after serving since 2009.

🇺🇬𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚

📌The East African Court of Justice will next month sit in Uganda to hear new cases, appeals and deliver ruling on a number of cases filed before it. This is part of the court’s efforts to move away from its headquarters in Tanzania, to move to various East African Community member states to sit and adjudicate matters The president of the East African Court, Justice Kayobera while speaking at a training session for journalists on the operations of the East African Court of Justice held at Mestil Hotel on Tuesday said a number of cases filed before the court and appeals will be heard as well as rulings given by the court sitting in Kampala, between November 2nd to December 2nd 2022.“

🇺🇬𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐀: 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐔𝐂𝐄 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦

📌Police in Arua police opened investigations against the head teacher of Manibe Secondary School, Ajidiru Hoglas for denying a student to sit UCE exams. Ayikobua Joseph who had registered to sit for this year’s senior four exams was stopped from sitting on allegations of school fees defaulting.

📌According to the West Nile Region Police Spokesperson Josephine Angucia, they discovered that the student was a true student of Manibe secondary school with registration number U2180/012 UCE 2022 and was duly to sit for exams at Manibe Public Secondary School but was not allowed to sit.

🇺🇬 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐄: 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤

📌 Nathan Muthabali, the Rukoki Sub County Speaker said thorough investigations ought to be done against some civil servants and politicians reported to have turned the few motorcycles assigned to Rukoki sub-county into their alleged private work. He said that whereas his fellow councilors were skeptical on whether to comment about the matter at hand, service delivery had been frustrated by some selfish civil servants who are not willing to release the four motorcycles just to feed their personal interests.

🇺🇬𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐎: 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐀𝐎 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟑 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬

📌The State House Health and Medicines Monitoring Unit arrested the Ntungamo District Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) ,Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and the District Internal Auditors, accused of embezzling funds meant for health service delivery. The arrest stems from the recent monitoring of the district payroll system that discovered several ghost health centers in the district.

𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒

🌍🌍🌍🌍

🌍𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐀: 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧

📌South Africa on Tuesday, started hosting peace talks for the first time, to end Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, which started in 2020. The talks are scheduled to last until Sunday, 30th October, 2022. The talks are taking place under the patronage of the African Union, with the objectives of silencing the guns.

🌍𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐇: 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭

📌A passage of storm Sitrang along the coast of Bangladesh has killed at least 35 people. Most of the deaths are due to falling trees and capsized boats. In addition, the storm has downed trees plus power poles, and water has flooded several localities.

The storm has affected homes, 33,000 hectares of crops and wiped-out thousands of fisheries.

🌍𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐘: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲

📌Italy’s new far-right leader, Giorgia Meloni, has used her maiden speech to MPs to stress her aim to halt migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy, which has been a hub for irregular migrants heading for Europe for years.

“We must stop illegal departures and human trafficking,” she said.

🌍𝐏𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍: 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫

📌Unknown assailants shot dead a policeman, Muhammed Hashim, on Tuesday morning, while providing security to a polio vaccination health worker in the southwestern province of Balochistan.

The police officer was shot while waiting outside a house in Pishin city where a worker had entered to give immunization drops as part of a vaccination campaign that began on Monday.

🌍𝐔𝐒: 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝟐 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞

📌Authorities in the US have charged two alleged Chinese intelligence officers with attempting to interfere in the prosecution of a major Chinese telecommunications company in the US.

They charged He Guochun and Wang Zheng with obstruction of justice and money laundering.

🌍𝐔𝐊𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄: 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦

📌Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, told Ukrainian refugees who fled in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to stay abroad this winter due to blackouts created by Moscow’s bombardment of critical energy infrastructure. She advised them to wait until spring before returning to the country.