On Saturday, a group of innovators led by Ms. Christine Kihunde unveiled a pilot test of their new project, ‘Plant Scope’ that detects diseases and pests in plants. The new tech detects plant diseases that are in their very-early stages before widely spreading to kill the plant. Plant Scope uses deep neural networks and machine learning to detect these diseases…
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Preparations are underway for the meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda President Paul Kagame. The meeting that will be held on Friday is part of the resolutions of the quadripartite summit held in Luanda, Angola. The summit was mediated by João Lourenço, the President of Angola and Felix Tshisekedi, the President of Democratic Republic of Congo. During the summit,…
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Canon Goddy Muhanguzi Muhumuza, the Principal Legal Officer at Makerere University has excused himself from an appeal, in which an academic staff is challenging his dismissal. Muhumuza asked to step down from the case filed by Dr. Denis Asiimwe Katebire, formerly an assistant lecturer at Makerere Law School’s Public Interest Law Clinic-PILAC while appearing before the Justice Patrick Tabaro-led Staff…
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Yesterday, we talked about how you may “diagnose” a land issue is a criminal case and should be reported to the police. Today, we want to look at what you can do to protect your land when the case isn’t criminal in nature. 1. PRESERVE THE STATE OF THE LAND If someone is trying to put or remove something from…
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Taata Bula has been convinced by some of his people to contest for LC5 post. Since 2021 is not far, he has come up with campaign schedule and wants to start “consulting” his potential voters. However, because of what has been happening with many political leaders who have gone for ‘consultations’, he fears that he may also be stopped or…
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Elders in Karamoja are worried about the safety of their livestock following plans by government to spray desert locusts. On Monday, government delivered Cyper Lacer Cypermethrine 5% EC insecticides to Moroto for spraying desert locusts in Karamoja and other neighboring communities. But the chemical is not only dangerous to the locusts, it also affects other insects like bees among others.…
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The National Organizing Secretary of the Democratic Party-DP, Sulaiman Kidandala has cleared another DP faction in Mukono district to conduct parallel grassroots elections. Kidandala cleared the DP faction led by the Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze who is also the Mukono District Party Chairperson to hold grassroots elections from LC I to LC 3 chairpersons this Saturday. This…
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Arua Municipality Councilors have approved the establishment of an Eco-City in Barifa, a peri-urban forest land. The artificial eucalyptus forest covering an area of over 10sq km was proposed for gazettement ten years ago but has since remained undeveloped and continues to be a hideout for criminals. In an extraordinary council meeting held on Wednesday, the councillors unanimously approved…
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Isimba Power Dam contractor has asked Parliament to compel Government to release 154 billion shillings it’s holding. The Ministry of Energy and Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) is holding 154 Billion shillings for the Isimba Dam Contractor China Water and Electrical Company Ltd until the Bridge is completed. China Water and Electrical Company were meant to construct a bridge…
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Uganda will get at least 7 trillion shillings from the World Bank for the period between 2021 and 2023, officials have said. The money is part of new funding round that the bank has put aside for the developing countries under the International Development Assistance (IDA) round 19. Antony Thompson, the World Bank Uganda country director, said they would disburse…
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