Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 19 2021
Nine suspected Karimojong cattle rustlers have been shot dead in a span of three weeks in Otuke District, authorities have said.
Mr Robert Abak, the outgoing Resident District Commissioner (RDC), at the weekend said the suspects were killed in an operation against cattle rustling.
He said since December last year, more than 120 animals had been recovered by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU).
“From then, we have not lost any animal to the Karimojong warriors. They have been trying to steal but we catch them before they can escape. Up to now, they are still stealthily roaming within Otuke and Alebtong districts,” Mr Abak said.
Ahead of Uganda s January 14 election, President Yoweri Museveni s government continues to limit the opposition s voices by blocking campaigning, enabling an environment that cannot facilitate a fair and free vote, according to rights groups.
The repression and coronavirus prevention measures have restricted the presidential hopefuls attempts to get their message out with police aiming to physically block them from campaigning.
For instance, opposition candidate and popstar-turned-lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who goes by the name Bobi Wine, has been arrested multiple times.
“The campaign is crazy. It’s like a war and a battlefield,” Wine said before he was detained for a third time in two months on Wednesday.
Meet Bol A Bok, East Africa’s new baller behind Diamond’s mega concert in South Sudan 2 months ago
After hosting a mammoth crowd of about 100,000 attendees during his Juba concert highlighted by Diamond Platnumz, little know events organiser Bol A Buk bolts for the best. Solomon Koko unveils the new baller in the region.
Q: Tell us about the Together for Peace Concert held in Juba, South Sudan recently that everyone is talking about.
BB: We organised it to assemble our country together. We are past war; guns and bombs that we are associated with. We can congregate in huge numbers and have fun now.
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Rwanda reacts early and effectively to the pandemic with this hand-washing facility at the bus terminal in Kigali in mid-March. Photo by Cyril Ndegeya, used with permission.
Editor s note: This article originally appeared in Friedrich Ebert Stiftung blog and is republished here with permission with light edits.
Following the World Health Organization s designation of the coronavirus as a pandemic, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to enter a phase of confinement. On March 23, the government ordered a strict lockdown, restricting traveling and closing universities to reduce the spread of the virus in the country. Since then, there have been 7,970 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 74 deaths and 6,289 recovered cases in Rwanda, according to Johns Hopkins University.