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Daily Monitor
Friday May 14 2021
Summary
From boxing to basketball, to netball, rugby, cricket, athletics and everything between that – and the potential returns from tweaking and investing – where do you start?
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It’s taken me a while to figure out what to write about this week. It happens, I gather, to every columnist. Sometimes there is so much happening and other times so little. If you write from Uganda, as I do, it can also feel a little draining when it seems like you are writing about the same – unchanging – things all the time.
Since it is swearing-in week, it probably makes sense to suppose what the next five years will look like. The good thing is that we sort of know what to expect, because the status quo has pretty much been maintained. So, instead, I’ll ask, what would you focus on over the next five years, if you were the one taking the oath of office as the next President of Uganda?
Daily Monitor
Friday May 07 2021
Summary
This year, a 23-year-old university student, she sat with one of those friends, reflecting on their years as teenagers.
Sexual consent pretty much works like that. If it is forced or coerced, it is rape. It has to be emphatic and specific so that there is no second-guessing what has been agreed to; it can be reversed or taken back by its giver at any time.
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Brittany Higgins. She was 24 years old, and had recently started at her dream job, as a political adviser in Australia’s Parliament House.
One evening, she went out for drinks with colleagues and had one too many – not to be unexpected for a 24-year-old.
Daily Monitor
Friday April 30 2021
Summary
The contradiction for Uganda is that where you have a young population for whom – from the evidence of it – the biggest threat is not necessarily the pandemic, but economic survival, self-preservation and caution become luxury items.
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If you are plugged into any newsy stuff, you must have come across the stories coming out of India – the guys supposed to be bailing us out with the Covid-19 vaccine. But if for some reason you have decided that ignorance is bliss, let me spoil it for you. It is bad, unprecedented bad. People are dying on the streets, because the health system is overwhelmed, from a new variant of the coronavirus.