Severe brain tumours may make people to lose balance on the ground. Its effects may kill skin colour, and affect growth.

To some people, the problem worsens after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour. Radiotherapy, one of the methods doctors use in the treatment of brain tumours may also affect someone’s balance on the ground, according to Dr. Richard Idro, a neuro paediatrician at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.

Dr. Idro says that brain cancers in children are fatal if not detected and managed properly in its initial stages.  Around the world, hundreds of people, especially children of all ages have lost their lives to brain cancer.

Dr. Idro says that the actual cause of brain cancer is not known. Cancerous brain tumours may be either primary or secondary. Primary cancerous brain tumours may develop in the brain. But secondary brain tumours develop when cells from a cancer that started in different parts of the body spreads to the brain.

Walakira Nyanzi

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Birmingham Law School LLM Scholarships: The Birmingham Law School will be offering a number of scholarships to applicants for its taught LLM programmes.

These are likely to be available as follows:

• up to £10,000 for international students from the African continent, China, India, Malaysia, and Thailand.
• up to £2,500 for international students from other countries

Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and financial need.

Applicants must already have applied for admission to the LLM degree.

Applicants are required to send a letter of motivation for the scholarship to Mrs Sharon Jones (Law-LLM [at] bham.ac.uk).

Successful applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications by the end of June.

Scholarships are not payable directly to successful applicants but are set off against the University fee invoice for each current year and will be transferred once successful applicants have paid the balance owed by them to the University.

Contact: Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3637. Fax: +44(0)121 414 3585. Email: Law[at]bham.ac.uk

Deadline: 20th June.

For more information see: Birmingham Law School Scholarships

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The reconstruction exercise of the burnt Kasubi tombs is still in balance after Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro JB Walusimbi announced today that the kingdom is broke and has no money to construct the burnt tombs.

Addressing the members of the Lukiiko on Monday, the Katikkiro said the kingdom has only 750 million shillings meant for the reconstruction of the burnt Kasubi tombs.

The Katikkiro who also informed the Lukiiko that the Kabaka accepted to renew his term of office as the Katikkiro for another four-year term said more money is still required towards the reconstruction and asked the Kabaka’s subjects and friends to donate more money.

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The MPs on the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee say that is currently investigating the misappropriation of US $ 14 million given to the government of Burundi from Uganda says that it’s high time that the president himself starts firing his ministers and other officials implicated in corruption scandals.

Bunyarunguru County MP Benjamin Cadet made the call to the president after the committee discovered that there is no evidence that the US $ 14 million was actually disbursed to the Burundi Government in appreciation for the efforts rendered during Uganda’s liberation struggle in 1985.

Referring to corruption in the country as Economic terrorism, Cadet said President Museveni should not wait for Parliamentary resolutions asking the accused parties to resign but he should terminate their appointments.

Ntungamo Municipality MP Yona Musinguzi revealed that out of the US $ 4 Million allocated to Burundi, scholaristic materials worth US $ 3.5 million only were delivered to the Burundi government which indicates that a balance of US $ 10.5 million was misappropriated within Uganda.

Presenting several the President’s letters complaining about Burundi’s failure to get the money, the Acting Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi told the committee the Finance ministry is not responsible for any misallocation of the US $ 4 Million because the government of Burundi directed that the payments be channeled to Picfare Industries in order to supply scholaristic materials to the country.

Meanwhile the document presented before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee indicates that President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Inspector General of Police to undertake investigations into the matter.

By Isaac Senabulya

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