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𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 24, 2023
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🇺🇬 President Museveni embarks on countrywide tour to popularise wealth creation 
📌President Museveni has started a countrywide tour and mobilisation on wealth creation and the Parish Development Model (PDM). While addressing leaders from all the districts of the Acholi sub region at Bar-Dege grounds in Gulu City, the President said that the PDM should help beneficiaries to generate wealth since it has very clear guidelines.

🇺🇬 NEMA to prosecute lorry owners and drivers who dump soil in wetlands
📌National Environment Management Authority will prosecute lorry owners and drivers who dump soils in wetlands. According to a memo, lorry/truck drivers are contracted to backfill wetlands which is against the law under National environment Act. Drivers, owners and contractors once caught dumping on the unauthorised wetland will be charged and lorries actioned.

🇺🇬 UPDF completes works on 3 health projects in Namutumba District
📌 Thomas Matende, the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) has said that Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Engineering Brigade has completed the construction of three of the seven health projects in Namutumba District at Shs157M. The completed projects include placenta pits at Kiranga Health Centre II in Kibaale sub county and Nangonde Health Centre II in Nangonde Town Council and the OPD at Kisumu Health Centre II.

🇺🇬 Government to distribute over 28 Million mosquito nets nationwide 
📌The Ministry of Health has embarked on a massive distribution of mosquito nets across the country next month. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health says that the campaign worth USD 120 Million is aimed at controlling the spread of malaria. Dr. Aceng received a cheque of 160 million shillings from Malaria Free Uganda.

🇺🇬 Every taxi route to get own colour for identification -Traffic Police
📌 Lawrence Nuwabiine, the Director of Traffic has directed that all passenger service vehicles should have symbols on their vehicles to help in quick identification of the routes they operate on. Nuwabiine says that every road and route will get its own colour as a form of identification to differentiate them from others.

🇺🇬 EU advocates for lasting solution to refugee crisis
📌European Union ambassadors have pledged that their countries will continue providing financial support to Uganda to address the humanitarian challenges in various refugee camps. Jan Sadek, the head of the EU delegation said that the union is advocating for a lasting solution to the refugee crisis. The ambassadors were visiting Nyakabande Transit Centre in Kisoro District to assess the refugee situation. Uganda hosts more than one million refugees from various countries which include DRC, South Sudan, and Burundi among others.

🇺🇬 VP Jessica Alupo is the 3rd Chancellor of St Lawrence University
📌The Vice President of Uganda, Rtd. Maj. Jessica Alupo has been installed as the St Lawrence University’s 3rd Chancellor replacing Emeritus Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi. This was during the 13th graduation ceremony on Thursday where over 400 students graduated with certificates, diplomas and degrees in various disciplines at the University headquarters in Kampala.

🇺🇬 Wamasebu family wants Justice for murdered Doctor
📌Following his kidnapping and murder in Kenya, the family of former Manafwa District Health Officer Dr. Gideon Simiyu Wamasebu, 62, has called for justice to be served. Former Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Michael Wamasebu, a brother of the deceased, said as a family, they would appoint a representative to attend the trial of the suspected murderer to ensure that justice is served. This was during Wamasebu’s requiem mass at St. Austin Church in Mbale City.

🇺🇬 Police mounts search for man over death of estranged girlfriend
📌Police in Kiira region has mounted search for a 28-year-old man only identified as Salim, over the death of his estranged girlfriend, Mary Asio, 25, who was stabbed outside her parents’ house in Katende cell, in Northern Division of Jinja City. Salim on Wednesday allegedly stabbed Asio six times in different parts of the body.

🇺🇬 RUKUNGIRI: Minister Muhwezi directs arrest of beneficiaries who misuse PDM funds
📌The Minister for Security who is also the member of Parliament for Rujumbura County, Maj. General Jim Muhwezi has directed that beneficiaries who misuse the Parish Development Model funds be arrested. The Minister made the revelation as he carried out PDM sensitization meetings across Rujumbura County. He also encouraged Rukungiri District leadership to ease the process of accessing the funds so as to include the most vulnerable.

🇺🇬 KYANKWANZI: Baylor Uganda to train adolescent girls and young women in vocation skills 
📌Baylor Uganda has started recruiting out of school adolescent girls and young women into free vocation skills training as an HIV prevention strategy. The training will cover bakery, shoe making, book making, hairdressing, tailoring, life skills and HIV prevention among others.

🇺🇬 RUBANDA: Stray dogs kill score of animals
📌Residents in Kashasha Town Council are in shock  after stray dogs invaded the area and killed a score of animals. Residents have resorted to hunting the wandering dogs after killing 12 animals including goats and sheep so far. They appeal to authorities to kill them before they bite humans.

🇺🇬 KATAKWI: CAO dismisses Toromo Seed Secondary School contractor over shoddy work 
📌The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Katakwi District, Nuwabigaba John Patrick has terminated the contract of Sanitation Africa Limited constructing Toromo Seed Secondary School over substandard work. In a letter to the managing director, Nuwabigaba said that the company blatantly failed to correct mistakes that they were advised to correct on January 23, during a monitoring visit and site meeting.

🇺🇬 WAKISO: Police rescues thieves from angry mob 
📌Three men in Kyengera Town Council were almost killed on Thursday, when Police saved them from a charged mob after snatching a bag from woman in Buloba. The three thieves Lukanga Ibrahim 25, resident of Nakabugo, Ssekaggo Ronald 30, from Bulenga Kibati and a Boda-boda cyclist took off using a motorcycle Bajaj Boxer registration Number UEP 602T. They were pursued and rounded up by residents at Katereke Cell and lynched until Police intervened.

🇺🇬 KYANKWANZI: UBOS carries out national house survey and census mapping
📌Uganda Bureau of Statistics has carried out a national household survey and census mapping in Ntunda Town Council. UBOS is currently undertaking the mapping of the entire country, developing administrative area maps, conducting advocacy among other activities.

🇺🇬 BULIISA: Local  Government trains PDM executive members 
📌The Buliisa Parish Chief Tusiime Andrew on Friday organized a Parish development Model executive members meeting at Businiro, Biiso sub counties. The facilitator of the meeting revealed to the members that the parish has 52 groups with 56 million on the Sacco accounts. He advised members to elect three beneficiaries from each Sacco group on a rotational basis.

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🌍 Uganda remains top Regional Tourism source market – report
Uganda has for another year retained its spot as Kenya’s biggest tourism source market in the region according to new data released by tourism authorities in Nairobi. The data is contained in the new Kenya’s tourism sector performance report for 2022 released at the Fairmont Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi by the country’s Tourism Cabinet Secretary Peninah Malonza.

🌍 KENYA: Ban on gay rights group unlawful – Court 
📌Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was wrong for the authorities to ban the gay community from registering a rights organisation. In a split decision, majority of the judges ruled that Kenya’s NGO board should have allowed the registration of a LGBTQ group, called National Gays and Lesbians Human Rights Commission which it had blocked in 2013. The judges said the constitution guaranteed the right to association and that the NGO board should not deny the registration of an association purely based on the sexual orientation of the applicants, or because it has the word gay or lesbian in it.

🌍 ETHIOPIA: Seven die as drought ravages Horn of Africa 
📌At least seven people have died from starvation in Borena area in southern Ethiopia following severe drought. Dhenge Wario, a district administrator in the zone in Oromia region close to the country’s border with neighbouring Kenya, said among those dead were a two-month-old baby and elderly people.
“People are not eating food for many days. Their cattle are all dead,” he said.

🌍 NIGERIA: Politician arrested with $500,000 on election eve 
📌A Nigerian politician has been arrested for alleged money laundering after being caught with $498,100 (£414,000) in cash a day before general elections. The wads of US dollars were found by Police inside Chinyere Igwe’s car. Mr Igwe, an opposition PDP member of the House of Representatives, was also caught with a list of people to give the money to, Police said.

🌍 MALI: Villagers shot and homes burnt down by Islamist Militants 
📌Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 12 people in central Mali’s Mopti region. Officials said gunmen burst into a village in Cercle de Bankass, shot at people, burnt homes and then chased those trying to flee into nearby forests. One official said as many as 19 bodies had been found and the search for more victims was continuing.

🌍 Nigeria to close land borders on Election Day
📌Nigeria has ordered the closure of all its land borders during Saturday’s tightly contested elections. The directive is meant to ensure that the “elections are free, fair and devoid of anomalies”, the Nigeria Immigration Service said.

🌍 South Africa power firm appoints new CEO
📌South Africa’s State power firm Eskom has appointed a new Chief Executive after the exit of the former head following an interview where he accused the ruling party of corruption. In a statement, the company announced the appointment of Chief Financial Officer Calib Cassim with immediate effect as the interim CEO to replace André de Ruyter.

🌍 South Africa, Nigeria under Financial Crime Watchdog’s Eye
📌International financial crime watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday said it was adding South Africa and Nigeria to its so-called “grey list” of countries under special scrutiny to implement standards to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Paris-based FATF said the two countries were added to its list following a review.