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Source BBC. Edin Dzeko scored twice as 10-man Roma prepared for their Champions League semi-final second leg against Liverpool with a comfortable victory over Chievo. Dzeko’s volleyed finish added to Patrik Schick’s opener, but Juan Jesus conceded a penalty and was sent off after the break. Alisson saved Roberto Inglese’s spot-kick, and Roma capitalised as Stephan El Shaarawy and Dzeko made it 4-0. Inglese headed a consolation, but Roma moved above Lazio into third. With three games to go, they have a four-point cushion over Inter Milan, who are outside the Champions League qualification places in fifth. Eusebio di Francesco’s…
Source BBC. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he wants the final month of his 22-year tenure to “go peacefully”. The 68-year-old Frenchman announced last week that he will leave the Gunners in the summer. Arsenal face long-time rivals Manchester United in a Premier League match at Old Trafford on Sunday. “You should leave me and give me a little peace for my final weeks and not try to push me into final confrontations,” said Wenger. United manager Jose Mourinho said on Friday that he had regrets about “episodes and words” involving the Arsenal boss, whom he believes may feel the same. Mourinho…
By URN. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) martin Okoth Ochola has re-designated the Nalufenya detention facility from a Special Force Operation Base to a police station. In a message released on Friday, April 27, to all police units and directors, Ochola stated that Nalufenya is to resume operations and functions of a police station with immediate effect. The re-designation comes barely a week after Ochola appeared in parliament and promised that he would shut down Nalufenya as a detention facility. “I have re-designated the Special Force Operation base at Nalufenya to the operations and functions of a police station…
Finance political parties to support minorities – Kadaga The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has asked parliaments to provide funds as an incentive to minorities to compete for leadership positions. Kadaga said parliaments should make it a requirement for political parties to identify their cadres who belong to social minorities, and finance their involvement in national leadership for inclusivity. The Speaker made the remarks during the 12th Summit of Women Speakers in San Benito, the capital of Bolivia in South America. “Political Parties can better attract membership of diversity by including in their manifesto specific programmes that…
Source Reuters . SEOUL (Reuters) – Smiling and holding hands, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between the countries on Friday in the first summit for the two Koreas in over a decade. Scenes of Moon and Kim joking and walking together marked a striking contrast to last year’s barrage of North Korean missile tests and its largest ever nuclear test that led to sweeping international sanctions and fears of a fresh conflict on the Korean peninsula. The dramatic meeting, aimed at ending their decades-long conflict, comes…
Africa: Open for Business! Canada to host The Commonwealth Africa Forum in July 2018 Convening over 250 delegates and a number of high profile speakers, the Canada Forum will offer unrivalled insight into business on the continent from the boldest innovators and decision makers in Africa Senior Government and Business Leaders from Africa and North America will gather in Toronto from the 5th – 8th July 2018 for The Commonwealth Africa Forum Toronto 2018 with the theme: Africa – Open for Business. www.CASevents.org/tafcanada2018Past Speakers at CAFI EVENTS have included: HRH Prince Andrew The Duke of York, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Former Nigerian Head of State); Rt Hon Baleka Mbete (Speaker of the Parliament…
Inside -The New Scientific Findings on The Safety of GMO Products in Uganda and THE Unresolved Issues on The Controversial GMO Bill! By Adiga Julius New scientific finding into the controversial botched accent of a GMO Bill into law by president Museveni indicates that there’s no hazardous effects of GMO agricultural products to human life nor to the soil fertility in Uganda. The revelation made by the national coordinator of Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology, Philip Chemonges falls on the heels of a bounced back GMO Bill to parliament by president Museveni for further scrutiny before accenting to it into…
Korea and UNICEF launch programme to provide water, sanitation and hygiene services to over 50,000 students in Karamoja By Adiga Julius. The Korea International Cooperation Agency and UNICEF – the United Nations Children’s Fund – have launched a five year programme to scale up water, sanitation and hygiene services in schools in Karamoja. The programme will be executed until 2022, benefitting 56,000 children from 100 schools in all Karamoja districts – Abim, Amudat, Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto, Napak and Nakapiripirit. The interventions will be implemented by UNICEF, together with the Ministry of Education and Sports and the seven District…
By URN. The Health Ministry plans to reign in on all health facilities accused of selling vaccines that are distributed for free immunization. The Primary Health Care Minister, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu announced this on Wednesday during the 8th health sector barometer meeting organized by Uganda Medical Association. Dr. Bernard Opar, the Program Manager Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization, says the commercialization of vaccines has led to competition among private health service providers, which in turn has led to reports of fake drugs. He says following the scandal about the hepatitis B vaccine, the Ministry has stopped all private…
By URN. The government proposal to reinstate corporation tax on Savings Credit and Cooperative Societies-Saccos has met stiff opposition from members of parliament. Corporation tax is a tax imposed on the net income of a company. Government proposes to levy the corporation tax on profitable Saccos with the aim of generating Shillings 10 billion. This is one of the proposed new taxes the Finance Ministry laid before parliament on Tuesday. The others include the proposed Shillings 200 levy on a liter of cooking oil, 10% final withholding tax on commissions by telecommunication companies to mobile money and airtime agents and Shillings 200 daily levy on…
Source DW Africa loses billions due to high cost of remittances Billions of dollars in remittances flowed to Africa in 2017. The money could go further if it wasn’t more expensive to send money to Africa than anywhere else in the world, a new World Bank study finds. Immigrants sent a $38 billion (€31.1 billion) back home to Africa in 2017, according to a new World Bank briefing paper. Nigeria accounts for the lion’s share of this with $21.9 billion, followed by Senegal with $2.2 billion and Ghana with $2.2 billion. “The [African] diaspora … are making a lot of…
B y Damba Rogers. The Inspector General of Police, Mr Martins Okoth-Ochola, has suspended the former commander of Kampala Metropolitan Police South Assistant Commissioner of Police Siraj Bakaleke and four other officers over allegations of illegal arrest of South Korean nationals and robbery. Through the Director of Police Administration, Mr Moses Balimwoyo, Mr Ochola ordered ACP Bakaleke, Assistant Superintendent of Police Herbert Akankwasa, Detective Inspector Robert Ray Asiimwe, Constable Drover Robert Ayebare and Constable Kenneth Zirintusa to hand over office immediately. The deputy police spokesperson, Mr Patrick Onyango, confirmed the suspension of the officers. Confirmed “It is true that the…
URN. The Chief of Defense Forces David Muhoozi has applauded the Tanzania army for helping Uganda liberate itself from the bad leadership of former president Idi Amin Dada. Gen Muhoozi was today meeting students from the National Defence College of Tanzania led by Brig Gen I. Mhona at the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Headquarters Mbuya hill, in Kampala. Muhoozi welcomed and commended the role played by the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) in ensuring regional stability for sustainable development. He noted the need to maintain close cooperation between Uganda and Tanzania, which is premised on the fact that both…
Story by URN. The Parliament of Uganda will on Tuesday honour Team Uganda that finished 15th at the just ended 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia.Chris Obore, the director of Communication at Parliament confirmed the development to URN on Monday. ” The Ugandan team members will first have a luncheon in our canteen before they are ushered into the house where a motion will be moved to honour them,” added Obore.Double gold medalist at the Games Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei will lead the team which has not rested since return last Thursday from Gold Coast. On return the team was…
By URN. Makerere University bursar, Augustine Tamale has resigned. In his notification, dated April 20, 2018, Tamale said that he will leave office within two months.”The purpose of this letter is to give a notice of resignation from the position of bursar of Makerere University. I will serve for the next two months under this notice and leave on Friday June 29, 2018,” he said in a letter to the University Human Resource Director, Andrew Abunyang.Tamale added that his resignation was prompted by ‘personal reasons’ He did not divulge details. Prior to joining Makerere University, Tamale served as a Senior…