OBITUARY

Dozens of children have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds during rituals that were part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India’s Bihar state after heavy monsoon rains recently raised the levels of waterways across the state. The incident happened on September 26, 2024. Preliminary reports indicate that the state's water bodies have been overflowing following heavy rains, resulting in treacherous conditions during the festival, which involves bathing rituals. According to the Hindu culture, the three-day Jivitputrika festival celebrates...

Renowned veteran journalist and former MP of Amuria county, Francis Ekomoloit Onapito, has been pronounced dead. The news of the passing on of the former MP, who was also a regular panelist on various media platforms, was broken by Captain Mike Mukula, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) National Vice Chairman of Eastern Uganda, on Friday morning, September 27, 2024. Mike Mukula said that the rest of the details regarding Onapito's death and burial arrangements will be communicated at a later time. “On...

Jolly Mugisha, the National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy president for western Uganda, has died under heartbreaking circumstances after the party she had dedicated her life to serving abandoned her when her health started deteriorating. Mugisha has been suffering from serious health issues in recent months, but the leader of NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi, rejected her request for specialized foreign medical treatment. Despite her significant contributions to the party and the struggle for political change, NUP completely abandoned her, leaving her to die...

Parvin Jamnadas Gordhan, the former Finance Minister of South Africa and an apartheid freedom fighter, has died at the age of 75 after battling with cancer. According to Gordhan's family, the former minister died on the morning of Friday, September 13, 2024, in the hospital (not disclosed) after a short battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Vanitha and his two daughters, Anisha and Priyesha. Gordhan served two terms as a Finance Minister between 2009 and 2017 before President Jacob...

Dickson Ndiema, the ex-boyfriend of Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, has died in a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. Ndiema, who was also admitted at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), succumbed to the wounds incurred from the incident that saw him suffer burns to 30 percent of his body. The hospital confirmed that Ndiema died on Monday night, September 9, 2024, at the ICU where he had been admitted, a few days after the death of Rebecca Cheptegei, his girlfriend. He was rushed...

The State Minister for Defense and Veteran Affairs, Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi, has passed on. The deceased's death was confirmed by her father, Philemon Mateke, who said she died of a heart attack while being taken to Mulago National Referral Hospital on Saturday. Known for her previous role as the Minister of State for Gender, Labour, and Social Development, Mateke was on March 21, 2024, appointed in the Defense Ministry, a role she has not even spent a year with. Mateke was also...