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🇺🇬 UPDF constructs Rutaraka monument ahead of Tarehe Sita celebrations 
📌The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) Engineering Brigade has embarked on the construction of Rutaraka Monument in Ibanda District as a way of celebrating Rutaraka’s heroic action of spearing a one George Harry Galt in 1905. The construction of the monument has reached 98% completion. Equally, the renovation of Galt’s monument is ongoing. The construction is part of UPDF’s commemoration of the February 6, Tarehe Sita.

🇺🇬 US envoy to UN applauds UPDF work  in Somalia
📌The US envoy to the UN Ambassador, Linda Thomas Greenfield has applauded UPDF for the work well done in Somalia. While speaking at the launch of African transition mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on January 29, 2023, Greenfield stated that Sector 1 UPDF-ATMIS contingent has always been going beyond its authorization by evacuating casualties and the dead from the battlefield and especially in the hard to reach areas.

🇺🇬 Education Ministry trains teachers on new secondary curriculum 
📌The Education Ministry has embarked on the training of secondary school teachers about the new curriculum. Grace K Baguma, an official at the Ministry says the school administrators are required to select (2) names from the teachers that will undergo training and also train their colleagues. Over 30,000 teachers of Government- aided schools are set to benefit  to build  their capacity for a competency-based curriculum.

🇺🇬 Chief Justice appoints Justice Musota new Chief Inspector of Courts  
📌The Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has on Monday, January 30, 2023, at the ongoing 24th Annual Judges Conference at the Mestil Hotel in Kampala confirmed that Supreme Court Judge, Justice Stephen Musota is the new Chief Inspector of Courts after the unfortunate demise of Justice Rubby Opio Aweri.
“I have just appointed a new Chief Inspector of Courts, Justice Stephen Musota following the unfortunate demise of Justice Rubby Opio Aweri,” CJ Owiny-Dollo said.

🇺🇬 VP Alupo asks parents to reject ‘requirements’ in UPE schools 
📌The Vice President, Hon. Jessica Alupo has asked parents to shun taking requirements for their children in schools under universal education as term one opens next week because ‘Government has provided everything’. She was speaking during a visit to Mayuge District over the weekend where she Government demonstration farm. She launched a fundraising drive for the construction of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Bukooba in Kityerera sub-county, organized by the Third Deputy Prime Minister, Rukia Isanga Nakadama.

🇺🇬 VP Alupo tips Busoga locals on Parish Development Model 
📌Vice President Jessica Alupo has urged Busoga region to re-emphasize their drive to improve household incomes to lift their livelihood. Speaking in Mayuge District over the weekend, VP Alupo encouraged residents to take full advantage of the parish development model program to  benefit from it.

🇺🇬 69 people die in 360 road crashes in one week 
📌Faridah Nampiima, the spokesperson of the traffic and road safety directorate have said that between 22 – 28 January, Police recorded 360 road crashes in which 69 people died. Nampiima made the remarks during the Monday weekly Security briefing at Police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala.

🇺🇬 EACOP compensates 203 PAPs 
📌Stella Amony, the East African Crude Oil pipeline Company (EACOP) communication officer has said compensation for the 203 persons affected by the oil pipeline is ongoing.
“The process for compensating EACOP  Project Affected Persons (PAPs) is ongoing,” Amony said.

🇺🇬 Speaker Tayebwa to build Shs1.2 Billion church to honor grandmother
📌The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has announced a mega plan to build a shillings 1.2 billion church at Kigarama Catholic Parish, Bitereko Sub County in honour of his late grandmother, the late Jurita. Tayebwa said he would fit the church with the state-of-the-art furniture and a modern music system. He made the revelation on Saturday as he officiated the groundbreaking ceremony for the church.

🇺🇬 ARUA: Man dies during sexual intercourse 
📌Ali Mustafa died while making love to his girlfriend, Adania Ratyo at Avenue lodge in Arua City. The Kampala Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, said the girlfriend reported the matter to Police and his body was moved from the lodge for postmortem analysis, which later established that Mustafa developed respiratory failure while making love, and that no drugs or any other substance that could cause death was found in his body system.

🇺🇬 NAPAK: Three mourners killed in scuffle at burial 
📌At least three mourners on Saturday died in a scuffle  on Sunday in Napak District during a funeral procession for the late Margaret  Achan, 62, who died in a house fire that gutted 10 grass-thatched huts in Kalomerisiep village, Lorengecora sub-county on Saturday. The scuffle was between the relatives of the deceased and those of a nine-year-old child who is alleged to have caused the fire. Micheal Longole, the Mt. Moroto Regional police spokesperson said the two mourners were lynched by a mob and another one, one Mariko Achia was hit by live stray bullets.
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🌍 RWANDA: There will never be genocide again – Kagame 
📌 President Kagame has said that the twenty-nine years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi will never happen again, not only in the current but also in future generations. President Paul Kagame made the remarks during an interview with Jeune Afrique’s Soudan Francois.

🌍 SUDAN: Military leader visits Chad to boost ties 
📌Sudan military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan travelled to neighbouring Chad for talks aimed at cementing ties between the two countries. General Burhan and Chadian interim military leader Mahamat Idriss Déby met in N’Djamena and renewed their commitment to implement a 2018 bilateral agreement. They also expressed their concern over communal violence in their countries and agreed to form a joint force to handle insecurity along their border.

🌍 TUNISIA: Opposition calls for unity against the President 
📌The country’s main opposition coalition which includes the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha has urged a united front against President Kais Saied.
“I call on all those who are part of the political movement and those who are in the civil movement to rise to this new challenge. Let’s join hands to work for change, in the form of Kais Saied’s departure,” Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, head of the National Salvation Front.

🌍 Belarus President set to visit Zimbabwe 
📌Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is beginning his three-day visit to Zimbabwe, his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as he looks to expand his country’s footprint on the continent. The visit follows the signing of trade agreements worth $350m with Zimbabwe including the provision of agricultural machinery. During his visit, more deals are expected to be signed in energy, manufacturing, transport and logistics.

🌍 US Ambassador to the UN kicks off Mozambique visit
📌The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, began a two day visit to Mozambique by planting a mangrove tree and  collecting garbage at a local beach with volunteers. On arrival she stressed the importance of the American partnership with the Mozambique in regard to the environment and climate change.

🌍 COVID-19 still an emergency – WHO 
📌Three years after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over Covid-19, it said Monday that the pandemic remains an international emergency. The UN health agency’s emergency committee on Covid-19 has met for a 14th time since the start of the crisis. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he “concurs with the advice offered by the committee regarding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and determines that the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC),” the organization said in a statement.

🌍 US continues pressing Egypt on Human Rights – Blinken
📌US Secretary of State,  Antony Blinken said human rights were a top item on the agenda in talks with Egypt’s President and foreign minister during a visit to Cairo on Monday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also discussed efforts to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, which have entered new dynamics with the formation of what observers say is the most conservative Israeli Government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.