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𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 29, 2023

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🇺🇬 President Museveni applauds  President Ruto for opening Kenyan Market for Ugandan products 
📌 President Yoweri Museveni has applauded Kenyan  President, William Ruto for opening the Kenya Market to Ugandan Products.
“I am very happy. I thank President Ruto for opening the market for milk, chicken and eggs,” he said.
The President received a special message from President Ruto, delivered to him on Friday at Nakasero State House by the Special Presidential Envoy  for the Tripartite free trade area of the republic of Kenya, who is also the Cabinet secretary for Investment, Trade  and Industry, Hon Moses Kuria.

🇺🇬 UPDF to mark 42nd Tarehe Sita anniversary in Mbarara 
📌The Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Vicent Ssempijja has said that this year’s 42nd Tarehe Sita celebrations will be held in the greater Mbarara region as part of the fulfilment of the FRONASA liberation struggle to consolidate the historical footprints of the founders of the liberation. Hon. Ssempijja was presiding over the regional launch of the 42nd Tarehe Sita Anniversary at Kazo playground, Kazo District.

🇺🇬 National Forest Authority boosted with additional fleet 
📌The fleet of vehicles at the National Forestry Authority (NFA) has increased by one bulldozer, a lorry, four land cruisers (single cabins), three double cabin Land Cruisers (Hilux), one station wagon Prado Land Cruisers and six Yamaha motorcycles. The equipment worth sh6.5b, according to NFA, has been provided under a six-year initiative of the World Bank (The World Bank-Uganda Investing in Forests and Protected Areas for Climate-Smart Development Project).

🇺🇬 Nsambya Hospital to establish breast milk collection centres in four hospitals
📌 Dr. Victoria Nakibuuka, a senior consultant neonatologist at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya said that a team of doctors and nurses are going to set up lactation centres in the hospitals of Mengo, Rubaga, Kibuli and Naguru National Referral Hospital where they will collect human breast milk. Nakinuuka said this milk will benefit premature, critically ill new-borns, babies born through Caesarean section and those whose mothers cannot breastfeed immediately due to anaesthesia, multiple babies whose mothers cannot produce adequate breast milk, plus those abandoned by their mothers.

🇺🇬 Deputy speaker lauds UPDF for professionalism at launch of Defence Forces week 
📌The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Thomas Tayebwa, has commended the professionalism exhibited by Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF). Tayebwa made the remarks as Chief Guest at the launch of the 42nd National Tarehe Sita Anniversary and Defence Forces Week Celebrations held at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs in Mbuya, Kampala.
“You have won the confidence of our people and please do all you can to maintain it. We have many questions about other institutions of government but not UPDF. For every failed project, the people are now demanding that we assign it to UPDF” he said.

🇺🇬 President Museveni tasks Finance, URA to act on corruption in tax collection
📌President Museveni has tasked the Ministry of Finance and Uganda Revenue Authority to act and end corruption in tax collection. The President was particularly concerned that several companies were under-declaring their collections. This followed concerns raised by a senior official from the International Monetary Fund over the country’s low tax-to-GDP ratio during the Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile Memorial lecture held in Kampala.

🇺🇬 Health Ministry carries out polio vaccination in areas affected by previous Ebola outbreak 
📌The Ministry of Health has rolled out a 10-day Polio vaccination exercise that started on Friday in districts that were affected by  Ebola. The districts were missed out on the nationwide exercise last November when the country was battling the Ebola outbreak. The officials say the exercise is going on smoothly and many parents have brought their children for immunisation.

🇺🇬 Absa Bank urges HR practitioners to invest in upskilling 
📌Mumba Kalifungwa, the Absa Bank Uganda Managing Director has urged human resource practitioners  to constantly invest in upskilling themselves and their workforces to prepare their organisations for the future.
“If you are not deliberate about investing in new skills, anticipating the future and responding to the constantly changing challenges in the overall business environment, you will be left behind,”  Kalifungwa, the Absa Bank Uganda Managing Director said.

🇺🇬 KISORO: 60-year-old LC III Chairperson passes PLE with Agg.9 
📌A 60 year old Ramadhan Ndikuyeze Atuzarirwe, LC III chairperson for Kisoro Central Division and NRM Vice Chairperson for the District is one of the over eight hundred eleven thousand candidates who sat for: Primary Leaving Exams last year. Ndikuyeze passed with Aggregate 9.

🇺🇬 KASESE: Over 2040 people expected to benefit from ‘I save Program’ 
📌At least two thousand forty residents from four sub counties of Kasese District are expected to benefit from the ‘I save program’ projected to develop especially PWDs, saving and credit skills so as  to meet their needs. During an interview, Asiimwe Famiya, the Kasese District Association of Persons with Disabilities field promoter said capable PWDs are also undergoing vocational skill trainings in tailoring, welding, hair dressing, carpentry from Kyondo, Bugoghe, Karusandara and Nyakiyumbu Sub Counties, and  theynwill be given startup capital and machines after six months.

🇺🇬 KASESE: Minister Rusoke condemns attempts to legalise same-sex vice 
📌The State Minister for Local Government, Hon Victoria Rusoke Busingye has criticised the Kasese Municipality for attempting to legalise same-sex, through a bye-law, and assured them that the measure is null and void. The minister was addressing the District Council in a special sitting at the Kasese Multipurpose Hall. In defence, the Deputy Town Clerk, Zedekiya Kambasu said they had been approached by an NGO, which is looking to extend services to the transgender, HIV/TB, drug addict and homosexuals.

🇺🇬 KASESE: At least 130 mothers attain hands-on skills training in different fields
📌Over 130 wives for the clergy in Kasese District have successfully been trained by Management Training and Advisory Center {MTAC} , sponsored by the Member of Parliament for Busongora North Hon. Sowedi Kitanywa. The trainees attained skills in making liquid soap, bar soap, bathing soap, reusable sanitary pads, hard snacks, charcoal briquettes and petroleum jelly.

🇺🇬 MITOOMA: Deputy Speaker to preside over upgrade of Kazinda -Rutookye road 
📌The Deputy Speaker Hon. Thomas Tayebwa and the Minister of Works, Gen. Katumba Wamala are slated to launch the opening and upgrading of Kizinda-Rutookye road that proceeds to Rwoburunga-Kiyanga respectively, continues to Bitereko- Kanyabwanga heading to  Kashenshero Town Council in Mitooma District. The function will be held at Rutookye Town Council headquarters.

🇺🇬 MITOOMA: Excitement as Mutara SACCO members set to receive their dividends   
📌Members of Mutara SACCO in Bikungu ward in Mitooma District have organised a general meeting for members  on Monday at Mutara Catholic Church where they will receive their dividends.

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🌍 KENYA: Criminal Investigations launches probe on Azimio’s election rigging claims
📌 In a statement released Saturday, the Kenya  Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched a probe on claims recently fronted by Azimio la Umoja coalition, that the 2022 August elections were rigged. The DCI boss Amin Mohamed noted that his team will be conducting investigations to verify the veracity of the claims.

🌍 Tanzania hits out at KLM for unrest claim
📌The Governments  of Kenya and Tanzania have hit out at KLM for spreading unfounded claims after the airline published an advisory warning of travel disruptions due to purported civil unrest in the two countries. Tanzania’s Minister for Transport and Works  in a statement, urged travellers to ignore the advisory, citing this statement as baseless, alarmist, unfounded, inconsiderate and insensitive that has caused unnecessary fear and panic.

🌍 AFGHANISTAN: Female students not allowed to sit University entrance exams 
📌In a letter addressed to institutions in Afghanistan’s northern provinces, including Kabul, the Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month and that those institutions that will not observe the rules would face legal action.

🌍 Italy’s Energy Company signs $8bn gas deal with Libya 
📌Italian energy company Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) Saturday signed an $8bn gas production deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed the signing of the deal in the capital Tripoli.