Addressing crowds at the golden Jubilee celebrations yesterday, President Museveni revealed a 10 point plan the he hopes to concentrate on to ensure transformation of the country’s society.

However Butambala county MP Muwanga Kivumbi says while it can be achieved, this may not be possible without a shared vision and fighting the prevailing corruption in the country.

The president says government is to concentrate on security and infrastructure among other things to achieve the vision.

The president says government is to concentrate on security and infrastructure among other things to achieve the vision.

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A lot has been talked about Pastor Peter Sematimba but no one has brought us the latest news about his latest private businesses and future in politics.  So we have decided to bring it to you.

The proprietor of Super FM and owner of a number of housing estates in Kampala say that he has quit politics. He says he wants to concentrate on his personal businesses and manage his family.  We are also told that Sematimba bought another pad from a Kampala businessman at 900 million shillings.

In a bid to prove that he is quitting politics, Sematimba has removed political talk shows from his Super FM. He now runs mainly sports, drama, music and news.

Sematimba has also fired the following journalists from his radio station: Mulindwa Muwonge, Charles Bwanika Senkuwa and Moses Kagolo.

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Many people know melon, eat melon and love melon. But majority of the people don’t know the benefits of melons. But today we shall concentrate much on the benefits of bitter melon.

In some tribes of Uganda, bitter melons are called akalera or ampalaya. In American English bitter melons are called bitter gourd.

Bitter melons are considered the safest fruit, in as food and medicine are concerned.

Bitter melons helps to disinfect  and heal cuts, wounds and burns, helps deal with poor appetite, helps in the treatment of intestinal warms and diarrhea, checks some cancers, enhances and the body’s resistance to infections, serves as an effective antioxidant, antibacterial and antipyretic.

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The member countries are concerned that the illicit miberaks are fueling human rights abuses especially the sexual and gender based violations.

The analytical fingerprint (AFP) system developed by the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BCR) and commissioned by the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region, identifies the mineral concentrate origin by comparing its mineralogical and geochemical characteristic features to samples of known provenance that are stored in a BGR reference database.

Silas Sinyigaya, the ICGLR Programme Officer for Democracy and Good Governance, says the fingerprinting center could be established in Tanzania.

He says the initiative is expected to make it extremely difficult for the mineral dealers that have ventured in an illegal trade and therefore lessen the urge to start wars which affect mainly women and children.

Successful application of the AFP method for a positive certification of mineral producers necessitates detailed and comprehensive sampling of active mining sites of the producer; geo-chemical and mineralogical data obtained from the analytical procedures.

The data has to be updated regularly and any changes in production methods should be communicated to a CTC counterpart (like changes in production sites; commissioning of concentrate upgrading equipment).

The fingerprint system is expected to reinforce the six tools for fighting illegal exploitation of natural resources which include; regional certification for gold, coltan, cassiterite and the walframite, harmonization of national legislation and domestication of the protocol on natural resources, establishing a regional database for mineral flows, whistle blowing mechanism and extractive industries initiatives.

The six tools as supposed to curtail any further trading in blood minerals that have recently fuelled conflicts especially in eastern DRC and Sudan leading to gross human rights abuses particularly sexual gender-based violence, which is currently a subject of discussion in the ongoing ICGLR special session summit in Kampala, Uganda. Militarized mining, which is part of the illicit trade, has meant massive use of forced labor, widespread violence against workers and the population in general, continued abuses of human rights, and unending war.

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