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[Monitor] At least 25 accident victims in Lira District, including a police officer, have benefited from artificial limbs.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
There have been nearly 11,000 demonstrations in the U.S. this summer -- as well as a rising tide of state repression and vigilante violence.
\"We were on the verge of reopening, and we didn't really care about Covid, to be honest with you,\" Flores said.
Two days later, he awoke with a fever of 103 and body sores, Flores told CNN's Erin Burnett. A week later, he was in the hospital, where he was put on a breathing tube during his week stay.
Arizona has been one of the harder hit areas in the pandemic recently, with cases soaring. The state has at least 84,093 people infected, up from 46,689 reported June 19.
That night at the bar, Flores said he was there with friends and \"we just were enjoying our life during that time,\" he said.
The bar was packed with between 300 and 500 people, Flores said.
But days later, when the fever hit, \"it was pretty bad. I knew that something was wrong,\" Flores said. His test for Covid-19 came back positive days later.
The cough started when he took a deep breath, Flores said.
\"Within 24 hours I couldn't take a small breath without fearing for my life,\" he said.
Before contracting the virus, Flores said, he was active, went to the gym and had no pre-existing conditions.
\"I would never have imagined in a million years that I would get this virus the way that I did,\" becoming so sick about a week after, Flores said.
\"When I decided to go to the hospital, I also decided to make this message public, because I knew I made a mistake,\" Flores said.
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By Dr John Deep Ford
Dr. John Deep Ford is former Caribbean Region Director of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and former Guyana Ambassador to FAO and WTO.
The article Building Post COVID CARICOM Food Security – A Cassava Industry appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Monitor] The magistrate court yesterday tasked three Congolese accused of dealing in minerals without a licence to find Ugandans to stand surety for them.
[East African] Governments in Africa lose about $25 billion annually to corporate abuse by multinationals who transfer profits to offshore tax havens and to individuals engaging in tax evasion through undeclared assets.
A police officer is under cross-examination in the murder trial of former North West deputy police commissioner William Mpembe and five other officers.
'The media and powers that be will try to argue that the Floyd verdict shows that the justice system works. It doesn’t.'
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[Monitor] Right from 1986 when the National Resistance Movement (NRM) captured power in Uganda it has put a lot of emphasis on agriculture as the best solution to youth unemployment and poverty alleviation.
The branches on trees around Kenya's northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downward under the weight of voracious young locusts.
[Monitor] In 2001, a day after winning his second presidential election, President Museveni addressed a news conference at Nakasero State Lodge, which was well attended by local and foreign journalists.
[Monitor] Uganda has recorded 2,542 recoveries and 193 deaths in five days, statistics from the Ministry of Health recorded between June 25 and June 29 indicate.
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today expected to swear in six judges of the Supreme Court from the High Court bench who will be expected to preside over the government’s appeal against a ruling by the lower court nullifying the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office.
Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot from behind by police on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin in front of... View Article
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From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record.
[New Times] The national Cricket Association has pointed at Namibia as Rwanda's main challengers in the upcoming Kwibuka T20 tournament slated from June 6-12.
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has expressed concern over what they called an apparent trend of manipulation of the criminal justice system to punish dissent through prolonged and undue pre-trial incarceration. The rights group also bemoaned the selective targeting of political opposition leaders and human rights defenders. This came after journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, and MDC Alliance party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere were arrested last week and charged for allegedly communicating falsehoods. They are being charged under section 31(a)(iii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. In statement yesterday, the Forum said political opposition leaders and human rights defenders are being arrested on frivolous charges as the State has weaponised the criminal justice system to intimidate and threaten perceived voices of dissent. “The collective incidents of arrests related to political opponents, human rights defenders and other opposition figures on frivolous and vexatious charges are not isolated to these latest arrests,” read part of the statement. “In November 2020, police officers arrested Jacob Mafume on charges of criminal abuse of office, in addition to subsequent charges of allegedly interfering with a key witness.” Many activists have been arrested for speaking against the government, in September 2020, Takudzwa Ngadziore was arrested on charges of participating in a public gathering with intent to promote public violence, Youngerson Matete, Prince Gora and Allan Moyo were arrested on similar charges. “In all these cases, the wrath and retribution of the government is clearly evidenced by the adoption of pre-trial incarceration procedures as a punitive measure. “A case in point is that of student activist, Allan Moyo, who has been remanded in prison for the past thirty-seven days without a trial.” “It appears that the government has become fixated with punishing dissenting voices in the country through prolonged pre-trial incarcerations,” the lobby group said. The Forum said these arrests are seemingly meant to intimidate opposition figures from speaking out and calling for the government to be accountable to its people while government continues to default on its obligations in terms of the Constitution and in terms of international law. “In terms of sections 58, 59, 60 and 61 the Constitution of Zimbabwe, citizens are entitled and well within their rights to speak out and complain when their freedoms have been infringed upon,” the Forum added. l Follow Harriet on Twitter @harrietchikand1
[Capital FM] Kisumu -- All ten person who drowned at Lake Victoria following a boat accident on Tuesday night in Usenge area, Siaya County, were accounted for on Friday after the tenth body was pulled out.
[Monitor] Catholic bishops have asked security forces, as a gift for Christmas celebrations, to desist from shooting and teargassing people in election campaigns.
John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, calling him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.” […]
[Monitor] President Museveni last month appointed former Namutumba District Woman Member of Parliament Florence Mutyabule as a presidential adviser on poverty alleviation in Busoga, making her the third female to hold the portfolio in less than eight years.
SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday ordered Seattle police to temporarily stop using tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang devices to break up largely peaceful protests, a victory for groups who say authorities have overreacted to recent demonstrations over police brutality and racial injustice in the liberal city.
U.S. District Judge Richard Jones issued the two-week order after a Black Lives Matter group sued the Seattle Police Department this week to halt the violent tactics it has used to break up protests.
The judge said those objecting to police using violent tactics to break up protests make a strong case that the indiscriminate use of force is unconstitutional.
This week, protesters have turned part of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood into a protest center with speakers, drum circles and Black
Lives Matter painted on a street near a police station.
“As tens of thousands of people were gathering today to march silently and in solidarity against police brutality and misconduct, the U.S. District Court affirmed their right to protest, free from state violence.
[Monitor] By Arthur Arnold Wadero
