The Kampala City Trader’s Association –KACITA has advised the business community travelling to China to halt their travels until the Coronavirus situation in China is contained

Issah Ssekito, the KACITA spokesperson on Tuesday Jan 28,2020 revealed that this situation is very deadly if people don’t be vigilant and follow authorities advice.

Meanwhile, The Ministry of Health has issued stringent guidelines to its health team at boarder points and Entebbe International airport.

This after reports indicating a suspected Corona Virus patient in the neighboring Kenya which has prompted the ministry to direct the its medical teams to look out for Corona virus signs among people using buses to enter the country

The ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Doctor Diana Atwiine has also advised travelers that can suspend their travels to China to do so as the situation normalizes.

Update: The death toll in China from a deadly new coronavirus rose to 132 with new cases reaching nearly 6,000 – more than during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003 – as Japan and the United States began evacuating hundreds of citizens from Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak.

Authorities said on Wednesday the number of confirmed cases across the country climbed to 5,974, while the death toll nationwide jumped by 26.

How prepared is Uganda,Africa at large!

The ministry of health has stepped up screening for the deadly coronavirus at Entebbe Airport, as the death toll from the illness rises in China and new cases emerge in several other countries.

There have been no reported cases of the coronavirus in Uganda or Africa but health authorities in the region remain on high alert owing to the rapid spread of the virus.

 A Kenya Airways passenger who arrived in Nairobi on Tuesday (Jan.28) afternoon on a flight from Guangzhou displaying flu-like symptoms is the first suspected case of the Wuhan originating coronavirus in East Africa. The patient is currently being quarantined at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.

This comes after the Chinese Embassy in Kenya issued a press release saying it is “closely monitoring…the entry of Chinese into Kenya” with the Chinese community, reiterating measures being taken in China to prevent the spread of the virus.

African airports and health bodies are jointly ready,working hard to prevent this China’s coronavirus.

What is Corona Virus?

Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus causes respiratory infections which are typically mild including the common cold but rarer forms like SARS and MERS can be lethal.

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NBA Basketball icon Kobe Bryant, 41,and his daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant were among the 9 people who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday Jan 26,2020.

Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and in the northwest Santa Monica Mountains between Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, West Hills, Hidden Hills, and Malibu, California.

Investigations are underway,with the accident still attributed to bad weather.

“Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.” – Kobe Bryant

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has accused the western media of racism after she was cropped out of a photograph taken with her white peers in Davos,a town in the Swiss Alps, within the canton of Graubünden, a popular ski resort with a conference center that hosts the annual World Economic Forum.

In an emotional video statement, Ms Nakate said that for the first time in her life she “understood the definition of the word racism”.

She said various outlets, including the US’ AP news agency, had removed her from photos.

AP, which has since removed the cropped photo, said there was “no ill intent”.

“The photographer was trying to get a picture out fast under tight deadline and cropped it purely on composition grounds because he thought the building in the background was distracting,” the news agency’s director of photography, David Ake, said.

“When we went back to add more pictures to the report, which we almost always do when we are working under very tight deadlines, we added additional pictures with different crops.”

How did we get here?

Ms Nakate gave a news conference in Davos on Friday alongside fellow climate activists Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.

She later shared an article by AP in which she was cropped out of a picture of the activists.

In a video statement posted on Twitter, she accused the media of racism.

“We don’t deserve this. Africa is the least emitter of carbons, but we are the most affected by the climate crisis…You erasing our voices won’t change anything. You erasing our stories won’t change anything,” she said.

“I don’t feel ok right now. The world is so cruel.”

The 23 year old said she had not received “any explanation or apology” after the AP image was replaced with one that included her.

The video has been watched about 40,000 times and been shared by hundreds of people.

Some Twitter users also noted that other media outlets had misidentified Ms Nakate as Zambian activist Natasha Mwansa.

Leading climate activists offered their support.

United Nation (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for international intervention/aid to “avert any threats to food security, livelihoods, malnutrition”. It requires 10 m U.S dollars.

Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are struggling with “unprecedented” and “devastating” swarms of the food-eating locusts, the FAO has said, fearing locust numbers could grow 500 times by June.

Ethiopia and Somalia have not faced an infestation on this scale for 25 years, while Kenya has not seen a locust threat this size for 70 years, the FAO said earlier this week. South Sudan and Uganda are also at risk if the swarms continue to grow and spread. For Uganda, as of Thursday Jan 23, 2020 , they were 166KM away from her border with Kenya.

Uganda needs five billion shillings (US$ 1.4m) to avert a possible invasion of desert locusts, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries.

The swarms have spread from Yemen across the Red Sea. Heavy rainfall at the end of 2019 created ideal conditions for the food-devouring insects to flourish.

And the problem could get worse as the year goes on. Aside from growing numbers in east Africa, locusts have also been breeding in India, Iran and Pakistan, which could turn into swarms in the spring.

Locusts can travel up to 150 kilometres (93 miles) in a day. Each adult insect can eat its own weight in food each day.

A swarm the size of Paris could eat the same amount of food as half the population of France in a single day.

You cannot discuss ending ‘Unemployment’ and you underestimate Hands-on.

In Uganda, Kermit the Frog Cartoon has been named ‘Omwavu’ meaning a poor person,and it has become viral on social media with some companies using it to advertise,as many social media users enjoy ‘Omwavu’ trend.

Omwavu issue started mid 2019 and trended till late November 2019 with #OmwavuWaKufaYarabi (a twitter hash tag meaning that a poor person is to die for sure, expressing concerns of a common man in Uganda and other trending affairs around the world). Omwavu has again trended as early as this (2020-30 dacade).

This Cartoon is known as Kermit the Frog,a Muppet (foolish) character and Jim Henson’s best-known creation introduced in 1955. Kermit serves as the straight man protagonist of numerous Muppet productions,most notably Sesame Street.

James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer,animator, cartoonist, actor,inventor,filmmaker,and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock;and as the director of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

He was born September 24, 1936, Greenville, Mississippi, United States and he succumbed to Pneumonia at the age of 54 years – May 16, 1990 (30 yrs ago) Hospital, New York, United States.

He is remembered of TV shows like The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street,and others, plus books like It’s Not Easy Being Green: and Other Things to Consider, and others.

The Muppet Show was a fantastic medley of sweet and mischievous, including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, produced a weekly variety show with a range of famous guests.

First episode date – September 18, 1976. Final episode date – March 15, 1981.

Cartoons have continued to dominate in the media,in various concepts especially acting and advertising.

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In Uganda, Kermit the Frog Cartoon has been named ‘Omwavu’ meaning a poor person,and it has become viral on social media with some companies using it to advertise,as many social media users enjoy ‘Omwavu’ trend.

Omwavu issue started mid 2019 and trended till late November 2019 with #OmwavuWaKufaYarabi (a twitter hash tag meaning that a poor person is to die for sure, expressing concerns of a common man in Uganda and other trending affairs around the world). Omwavu has again trended as early as this (2020-30 dacade).

This Cartoon is known as Kermit the Frog,a Muppet (foolish) character and Jim Henson’s best-known creation introduced in 1955. Kermit serves as the straight man protagonist of numerous Muppet productions,most notably Sesame Street.

James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer,animator, cartoonist, actor,inventor,filmmaker,and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock;and as the director of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

He was born September 24, 1936, Greenville, Mississippi, United States and he succumbed to Pneumonia at the age of 54 years – May 16, 1990 (30 yrs ago) Hospital, New York, United States.

He is remembered of TV shows like The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street,and others, plus books like It’s Not Easy Being Green: and Other Things to Consider, and others.

The Muppet Show was a fantastic medley of sweet and mischievous, including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, produced a weekly variety show with a range of famous guests.

First episode date – September 18, 1976. Final episode date – March 15, 1981.

Cartoons have continued to dominate in the media,in various concepts especially acting and advertising.

Report by Aaron Ainomugisha https://twitter.com/AaronAinomugis3 

The 14 year old boy who was burnt by his boss at his home in Kitojo village Kitojo parish in Bwongyera Sub County in Kajara County over suspected theft is rotting in a clinic.

It alleged that Benson Nuwandinda sustained wounds when he was working as casual laborer but he was neglected to rot in the hands of his parents who are not able to seek good medication for him.

It is said that Nuwandinda six months ago was a house boy in George Kananura’s family in Kyamuntu Nyamunuuka town council but after left to get back to school.

Nuwandinda said things did not go on well then he had to go back to work there again not knowing that Kananura’s clothes got lost.

It is alleged that a 70-year-old man burnt a 14-year-old boy over theft of clothes in his house at the time when he left the work.

The victim noted that when Kananura saw him coming to his home and made alarm calling his sons to see what is coming and alerted them to engulf him and after asked him to explain why he stolen the clothes.

Nuwandida denied the allegations but Kananura insisted and told the sons to tie him and hung him at the entrance of their kitchen and burn dry banana leaves under where he was hung and the fire flames burn him on the buttocks and legs.

Nuwandida is now rotting in Devine Mercy clinic located in Rwashamaire Town council, Kajara Ntungamo as doctors try to bring back his life.

The mother to the victim Mrs Mollen Katushabe said that her son went missing, only to find out the boy was dumped at the entrance Rwashamire health Centre IV two weeks ago.

 She wanted to seek the intervention of the probation officer Benon Mugume to for help but was futile.

Dr. Joseph Twebaze Devine Mercy clinic Rwashamaire said that the victim was admitted in a critical condition but is improving slowly.

When contacted, George Kananura admitted to the torture but said that he had agreed with the parents to end the matter amicably.

Many people use the phrase ‘I need an Independent’ life a lot, even during prayers.

To you, what is a real INDEPENDENT LIFE?

Some think that;

• Divorcing/separating and you move to another house/room/home/location qualifies to be INDEPENDENT. No.
• Resigning and getting a job in a conducive/favorable situation. No.
• And other TEMPORARY situations. No. Better ‘Strive for An Independent Life.’

AN INDEPENDENT LIFE:  Independent Life means SUCCESS.

1. Free from debts and other gigantic problems.
2. Staying in your own house.
3. Not employed by anyone or company/organization/ any entity – Self-sourced and Multiplying earnings.
4. Happy family (this rounds socially/economically and spiritually).
5. Scandal free.
6. Free and Happy in, and with your community/neighbors.
7. Healthy.
8. Capable to interact with and survive in the changing world.
9. Composed and Tolerant.
10. Knowledgeable.  Realization of all your dreams.

If you have achieved the above, congratulations; You are really INDEPENDENT.

You are not yet INDEPENDENT when you are still ‘almost’ INDEPENDENT.

Many people die before achieving and INDEPENDNT LIFE. But , we believe you can. An independent life is POSSIBLE. Keep Moving!

Posted Monday, January 20, 2020 by Aaron Ainomugisha, Journalist & News Anchor 91.2 www.croozefm.com , Also, Founder / ED Rise Against Poverty Organization (RAP Uganda) ‘Be Confident.’  https://www.facebook.com/RapUganda0/  . aaronainomugisha7@gmail.com  0784043745 / 0754253916.

Regards! Prosperous 2020-30 Decade.

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2020 Parliament Week (20-25 January,2020) has kicked off with a fundraising walk to raise the required Shs5 billion to set up a rehabilitation and community centre for persons with albinism.
Other events during this week include The Public Parliament,where members of the public will get the opportunity to wear the shoes of their Parliamentary representatives.

The institution of Parliament will be made easily accessible to members of the public, to get more experience and learn about the workings in the legislature, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has said.
Kadaga said that one of the major highlights of the 2020 Parliament Week will be the Public Parliament where members of the public will get the opportunity to wear the shoes of their Parliamentary representatives.
“We are giving the public an opportunity to meet and to engage with their Members of Parliament, the public will also participate in a plenary sitting where they will discuss issues of concern, which we as legislators will take on for further discussion,” Kadaga said.
She made the remarks while addressing the media on the event that will run from 20 to 25 January, 2020.
The Speaker added that the event would change the perspectives that many Ugandans have about the institution of Parliament which would thus increase engagement on many fronts.
“When many people walk by Parliament and look at the buildings, they imagine that the place is hard to access but I believe there has lately been increased ease of access to Parliament,” said Kadaga.

The Speaker said that the activities including the charity walk and the ecumenical prayer service will be used to raise funds to facilitate the improvement of the livelihoods of Persons with Albinism in Uganda.
“The charity walk will raise funds for the construction of an albino centre, so that this special group receives better care. We have also been on a tree planting drive and will continue with it, as we green Uganda,” added the Speaker.
Parliament of Uganda will also commemorate 130 years of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), which will be graced by the IPU President, Gabriela Cuevas Barron.
In the course of the Parliament Week, all departments of Parliament will display content relating to their workings, for the information of the public.

BY ED AARON AINOMUGISHA aaronainomugisha7@gmail.com

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