President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has issued a clarion call to African nations to abandon outdated energy sources and embrace clean, affordable electricity as the key to reversing environmental damage and driving the continent’s economic renewal.
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Pope Leo XIV during his maiden mass delivered a powerful message of healing, unity, and spiritual renewal, calling on the global Catholic Church to become a "beacon of hope" amid widespread division and crisis.
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On November 7, 2024, a 34-year-old woman identified as Sarah Namwanje, a resident of Binyonyi A, Nyendo-Mukungwe Division in Masaka City, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after she recorded and sent a viral video of herself feeding her neighbor’s 10-month-old baby with feces and urine on November 4, 2024.
In the related development, on August 21, 2024, a fuel tanker busted into flame, killing one and injuring two at Rukungiri; on December 13, 2022, one person died in Tororo; in January 2021 on the Northern Bypass, at least 33 people died; on February 12, 2021, four died in Bunyangabu; and on August 12, 2019 in Rubirizi, 20 people died. Such incidences point to the need to sensitize locals on public safety during such incidences.
A group of protesters were intercepted by the police as they attempted to make their way to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to deliver a petition over the delayed compensation of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs).