The nine including Retired Bishop Zac Niringiye and Emmanuel Kitamirike of the Uganda Youth Network were arrested as they took part in the BLACK MONDAY campaign.

They had taken their campaign to Makerere University and were arrested while distributing leaflets containing anti-corruption messages.

They were then taken to Wandegeya police station where they had been held for hours.

They have now been set free after recording statements.

According to the police deputy spokesperson Vincent Sekatte, the group faces charges of inciting violence.

They are required to report back to the police on February 14^th.

The police however deny blocking the anti-corruption fight.

Ssekatte has rubbished allegation by civil society that the force is frustrating efforts to fight corruption saying that force have been at the fore in the fight against the vice unearthing several corruption scandals.

However, several anti-corruption activists have condemned the arrest calling it a systematic move to block the fight against graft.

The executive director of NGO FORUM Richard Ssewakiraga says such acts will intimidate members of the public from being whistleblowers against corruption.

Ssewakiraga says their campaign is only meant put pressure on government to recover all stolen public funds.

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Bogere suffered a partial tear of the left Achilles tendon while in training recently.

He will return to training in approximately four to six weeks according to a report from his managers.

Bogere’s managers say the two boxing champions are in negotiations to have the fight rescheduled. 

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The race was organised by the Uganda Cycling Association and Uganda women’s Cancer Support Organisation.

The cycling event that took place yesterday in BusembatyaIganga district also saw Kire Mwogeza win the ordinary bikes category in the 60km race, while Mayinja Wakiku took the sport bike event in the distance of 125 kilo metres.

Cyclists of the Cancer Day were 75 year old Mzee Haruna  who finished 10th  and 17 year Ethene Tumwebaze.

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The meeting which has been convened in Entebbe is focusing mainly on Guinea worm disease, which is still affecting various communities in Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan and DRC.

State Minster for health, Sarah Achieng Opendi

Three years ago World health organization declared Uganda Guinea worm free, among the mentioned countries, but because of, being a neighbor to DRC and Southern Sudan, those countries have remained a threat to Uganda.

The minister of state for health Sarah Opendi says government is considering putting in place a surveillance system to monitor the disease across all boarders of the country.

Guinea worm disease is transmitted by drinking stagnant surface water that contains Cyclops infested by the larvae of the parasites. There is no medicine or vaccine against the disease but simple and effective measures such as filtering of drinking water can prevent from guinea worm disease.

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The Inspector General Police, Kale Kayihura on Thursday saved policemen and KCCA councilors from killing themselves when he ordered the reopening of the Kampala District Land Board office which had been sealed off for more than two months over alleged fraud.

Before Kayihura saved the situation from turning from bad to worse, the Police sprayed teargas to disperse the KCCA councilors, the Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago and the city land board chairperson, Yusuf Nsibambi from forcing their way into the office. The office being talked about is situated at the KCCA head offices in Kampala.

During the scuffle, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago was roughed up by police but he managed to overpower the police forcing Kayihura to order for the reopening of the office.

The constitutional court last week ruled that police vacates these land board offices to let the officials in charge of the offices to resume with their normal operations.

But Kayihura’s men instead claimed that the office was still a scene of crime and nobody was allowed to access it.

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There was drama in Mityana district in central Uganda on Tuesday when a man and officers of police fought over the head of a three-week old child that was recovered from a swamp in Namukozi-Piida LCI in Mityana town council on weekend.

The police have identified the man who fought with the police as Alex Semuyaba. The district CID Mityana, Ms Faith Apio says they recovered head of the child after a tip off from area residents.

The head is currently in Mityana hospital mortuary as investigations to establish the people behind the murder continues. Alex Ssemuyaga and his relatives claim the head belongs to their child who went missing a few days ago. Due to increasing cases of poverty and despotic political leadership in Uganda, some people have resorted to human sacrifice in pretext that the evil spirits may hear their prayers and give them wealth.

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The battle for the soul of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leaders, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Budadiri west MP Nandala Mafabi has now reached final stages.

Both party stalwarts are generals in the political liberation struggle of Uganda and fight to restore civil liberties, norms and virtues. In Mugisha Muntu, FDC has a military general who risked everything including his life in fighting the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) government that had reportedly stolen the 1980 elections.

Equally in MP Nandala-Mafabi, FDC and Uganda has a general who risked everything including his own life in putting up his very own body as a human shield to defend and fight selflessly and corruption to ensure the will of voters in Eastern Uganda is not stolen at all cost in his own constituency in Feb 2011 elections.
Both Mugisha Muntu and Nandala Mafabi are indeed living with painful wounds inflicted onto them by live bullets from the late Milton Obote and president Museveni’s regimes of reported anarchy and terror.

These two brave and patriotic politicians are struggling to be entrusted with the FDC Presidency and ultimately Ugandan Presidency come 2016. In your opinion whom should we support?

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Absolute Health Foundation and Absolute health services are committed to improving the quality of life for those affected by the hepatitis B virus not only in Liberia where they are based but across Africa including in Uganda.

SAMUEL NARTEY QUAO, the President of Absolute Health Foundation- Liberia says the above organisations assist in the implementation of an Action plan on hepatitis B in Africa, do research, promoting disease awareness, supporting immunization and treatment initiatives by liaising with pharmaceutical partners for easy accessibility of vaccines at the most reduced price and drugs for the treatment of hepatitis B.

He says that Absolute Health Foundation also serves as a source of information for hepatitis B patients and their families both the affected and none affected, the health worker and the general public.

“We are also dedicated in meeting African and world leaders to encourage them to have an annual budget for Hepatitis B. We also focus on the right tool or tools to use in communicating to the public in creating awareness e.g. entertainment etc,” he explains.

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Relaxing reduces stress. Take ginger tea to lower your levels of pain-causing elementary and fight fatigue.

Eat foods that are rich in magnesium i.e. greens, ground nuts and seeds, and also take omega-fatty acids that are found in fish. Omega fatty acids have a positive effect on the menstrual pains/ cramps. Consult a medical doctor if the pain is intense and is unusually heavy.

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There is an apparent war within Uganda opposition parties with some sharp allegations to the effect that some member parties like the Democratic Party (DP) have allied with the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

However the spokesperson of DP, Kenneth Paul Kakande clears that there is no such alliance between DP and NRM. There is no resolution of the National Executive Committee of DP mandating anybody in DP to work NRM for any political reasons.

He says that if there are any individual or group of persons doing it, they are doing it in their personal capacity and the party wishes to state that it will investigate these unfortunate and callous turn of events and such people, if any will be dealt with according to DP laws.

There also seems to be a deliberate effort to depict a war of words between FDC and DP leaders. Kakande says that the DP is not in business of attacking other opposition leaders and members. Kakande says that DP believes that the people in FDC are their friends and the party sees them as allies in the fight against Museveni’s leadership. He challenges FDC and all other opposition parties to concentrate their fire on the liberation struggle.

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