🔫 ADF trouble

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Headlines

🔫 ADF trouble

Uganda once again suffered an ugly attack on its soil and image after two foreign tourists and their Ugandan guide were murdered in Queen Elizabeth National Park. According to the Ugandan government, ADF rebels carried out the attack, shooting the victims and setting fire to their vehicle. Kasese borders the DRC and, by right of conflict passage (What’s that?), has always been a troubled hotspot of terror activities. The UK issued a travel advisory to its citizens as the Ugandan government scrambled to reassure intending tourists of their safety.

Uganda relies heavily on tourism for the copious amounts of dollars it doesn’t have to borrow, and this latest incident casts a gray glow on an otherwise booming sector.

🔈 Stay tuned

Your exorbitant DSTV subscription may soon be unnecessary for your Telenovela fix, as Parliament in the past week, has become your free-to-air drama source. Mathias Mpuuga and the opposition staged their third walkout in protest to what they see as indifference by the government to their concerns, i.e., human rights violations, respect for opposition leaders, and an end to the harassment and extrajudicial killings of opposition supporters. Government’s treatment of their concerns with the same level of urgency you give the promotional emails in your Gmail inbox resulted in chaos, suspensions, and adjournments. More so, things took a comedic turn when the IT staff vanished before presenting Bobi Wine's Entebbe incident as video evidence.

🇰🇪 Kenya

The widow of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif filed a lawsuit against Kenyan police for his wrongful death. She seeks justice and wants the officers responsible to be punished and prosecuted. Sharif was a victim of mistaken identity by the General Service Unit (GSU), but the Kenyan government never apologized or reached out to the family.

 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Rwanda sent 16 tons of aid (medicine, food, and water) to Gaza aboard a RwandAir Cargo plane.

🇹🇿 Tanzania

Tanzania and DP World signed a 30-year deal to enhance Dar es Salaam port efficiency, including the lease of berths and revenue sharing, with President Samia Suluhu Hassan defending the deal as a unique opportunity.

Other headlines

Kingfisher to resume oil operations as govt lifts suspension.

200 left homeless as tornado hits Buvuma Island.

Nabbanja orders BoU to investigate banks.

World Bank to put LGBTQ safeguards before resuming funding.

Stop EACOP shifts campaign to Chinese banks.

Bitature Shs 240.9 billion bailout divides parliament.

Bomb placed in church’s public address system in Butambala.

Maria Nagirinya murderers sentenced to life in prison.

Why NFA left Shs. 350m impounded charcoal to rot.

Two Ugandan peacekeepers injured in DRC ambush.

Oil refinery bid winner to be announced next month.

UCE 2023: Headteachers, invigilators arrested over exam malpractice.

Henry Kyemba: The life and times of ‘State Of Blood’ author.

Makerere staff oppose introduction of biometric attendance system.

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Beyond Borders 

🌍️ Africa

🇲🇿 Bird Flu Alert. Mozambique, in a desperate attempt to curb bird flu, staged an avian apocalypse. Over 45,000 imported South African hens met their fiery end and were unceremoniously buried. The result is an extreme shortage, with a dozen eggs now worth their weight in gold, and chicken prices have sprouted wings to double the price tag. Bird flu infects poultry and wild birds and can spread through entire flocks of domestic birds within a matter of days, through bird droppings and saliva, or through contaminated feed and water.

⚽ The AFL. The African Football League (AFL), an elite tournament that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) launched, is the latest addition to the continent’s football calendar. Considered the brainchild of FIFA President Gianni Infantino and confirmed in 2021 by his counterpart, CAF President Patrick Motsepe, the AFL has faced several setbacks and changes in its format and prize money, and with no broadcasting deal, it must settle for YouTube streaming (for now). There are also some not-so-quiet whispers that the AFL could be the Trojan horse for the European Super League, which imploded like a poorly mixed cake under high oven temperatures.

Despite all that, the AFL is ostensibly in high gear after thousands of fans showed up to attend its inaugural match in Tanzania.

Other headlines

Visa rule abolished by Uganda and the DRC.

Burundi arrests the head of the opposition party.

Nairobi man found trafficking 23 Ethiopians.

DRC lists 24 provisional candidates for December elections.

Springboks beat England to get into Rugby World Cup final.

French troops to leave Niger by year's end-French genera.

$5 million bounty placed by U.S. on Al-Shabab deputy leader.

Dutch King and Queen confronted by angry protesters in South Africa.

Senegal tries to buy first president's possessions from seller in France.

Over 1000 migrants reach the Canary Islands on Saturday.

🗺️ The rest of the world

🍌 Banana bae in Ecuador. 35-year-old conservative lawmaker and heir of a banana empire, Daniel Noboa, became the youngest president in Ecuador's history, achieving a feat his father, Álvaro Noboa—Ecuador’s Sudhir—failed to achieve after 5 attempts (so, both Ecuador’s Sudhir and its Besigye). Daniel Noboa won the special presidential election, in which one of its leading candidates got assassinated, by focusing on fighting crime, job opportunities, healthcare access, and reducing taxes. The unusual election was triggered when outgoing president Guillermo Lasso used a constitutional mechanism in April to dissolve the legislature as he faced an impeachment trial over embezzlement charges (Can’t blame a guy for trying). Noboa will face re-election soon, though—in a year and a half.

🇮🇱 Israel-Gaza conflict update. Qatar, the constitutional monarchy that sits on the fence between Western countries and the likes of Hamas, helped negotiate the release of two Americans who were among 203 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

Other relevant updates from the conflict:

• US President Joe Biden requested a $106 billion emergency funding package for aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Gaza.

• Humanitarian aid starts entering Gaza.

• Israel is evacuating residents near its border with Lebanon due to clashes with Hezbollah.

• Israel denied targeting a Gaza hospital, blaming an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the strike.

• Palestinian leader Abbas canceled meeting with Biden

• The combined death toll in the conflict is north of 4,000.

• The conflict has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides

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Nn’ebigenderako

Politics and Government

New Zealand goes conservative for a change.

Australia rejected the indigenous referendum.

Elections, elections, elections

Russia returned 4 abducted Ukrainian children; Ukraine said they’ve abducted 20,000.

India’s Supreme Court declines to recognize same-sex marriage

Dear friends, Putin and Xi Jinping, met in Beijing at the Belt and Road forum.

The Belt and Road initiative

Business and Finance

Ferrari started accepting cryptocurrency as payment

Ivy Leagues are losing money over their response to the Israel-Hamas war

The US keeps trying to kneecap China’s semiconductor growth.

X/Twitter will charge new users $1 a year in a bid to fight bots on the platform.

Netflix is planning on increasing its prices (again).

Science and Technology

Apple’s “affordable” Apple Pencil.

Sports

Las Vegas Aces win the WNBA chip.

The Olympic Committee added five new sports.

Lifestyle and Entertainment

Fugees rapper Pras found guilty of conspiracy; blames AI

Hollywod’s stars offer $150M to end the actors strike.

Procrastination corner

Games and Puzzles

From Braingle.

You are blindfolded before a table. On the table are a very large number of pennies. You are told 128 of the pennies are heads up and the rest are tails up. How can you create two subgroups of pennies, each with the same number of heads facing up, while remaining blindfolded?

Answer at the bottom.

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Games answer

Answer:

Create a subgroup of any 128 pennies. Then flip over all 128. That group of 128 and the group of all the remaining pennies will have the same number of heads facing up.
This works because the "tails" that you grab while making your subset of 128 will equal the "heads" that are left in the original pile. Once you flip your 128 coins over, these "tails" will turn into "heads," and the two groups will have a matching number of heads-up coins.

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