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Ugandan musician Moses Ssekibogo, best known as Mowzey Radio of the Goodlyfe Crew is dead. Mr Balaam Barugahara, an events promoter told this reporter that Radio died Thursday at about 6am. Radio died at Case Hospital in Kampala where he had been admitted after reportedly being beaten into coma following a fight at De Bar, a local hang-out spot in Entebbe town last week. Radio sustained the injuries at Sky Lounge in Kololo where he was reportedly involved in a bar fight with one of the bouncers who beat him up to the extent that he fell and hit his head on the floor thus breaking his neck. He was then rushed to Nsambya Hospital where doctors declined to admit him because the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was full. His friends then transferred him to Case Clinic on Buganda Road, Kampala where he was undergoing treatment. Radio (born Moses Nakintije Ssekibogo) on 1 January 1985 (age 33) also known as 'Mowzey Radio' was was one of the main perf...

Bottles of Clorox bleach sit on a shelf at a grocery store in San Francisco. Parents are making their children drink industrial bleach to “cure” them of autism, with the potentially deadly practice traced back to a cult in the United States. Image: GETTY. Parents are making their children drink industrial bleach to cure them of autism—with the potentially deadly practice linked back to a U.S. cult. According to British tabloid the Sunday People, six British police forces have probed cases in which children as young as two have been forced to undergo the potentially lethal treatment. Angeles - the secretive Genesis II Church, founded by Jim Humble, a former scientologist. A 2016 investigation by Eyewitness News and ABC News found an underground network clustered in southern California promoting MMS on Facebook as a cure for ailments including cancer, Parkinsons, and autism in children. The previous year the BBC exposed a secret conference in which leading figur...

David Ukesone, 71, claims the crew punched him, bound him and taped his mouth.   (ABC NEWS) A misunderstanding aboard a Chicago-bound flight led to a Nigerian man immigrating to the U.S. getting hit and having his mouth taped, his lawyer claims. David Ukesone was left with a welt on his face from flight attendants, who also tied the 71-year-old Nigerian man up, lawyer Howard Schaffner told ABC News. “The man did nothing more than sit in the wrong seat,”  Schaffner told the network.  “Even if he's in the wrong seat you don't have to beat the guy.” Schaffner said he plans to file a lawsuit against Emirates airline over the alleged incident. Ukesone, a retired police officer in Nigeria with no known criminal history, was on the second leg of his trip to the U.S. on Jan. 23 when the scuffle broke out. He’d recently been granted a visa to join his wife, who moved to the U.S. about four months ago, and their adult children. Schaffner told ABC News it ...

Nasa supporters at Uhuru Park, Nairobi on January 30, 2018. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE   Supporters of the National Super Alliance (Nasa) coalition leader Raila Odinga gathered in Nairobi Tuesday ahead of a ceremony to swear him in as an alternative president, three months after he claims an election was stolen from him. The planned "inauguration" has raised fears of violence as police had vowed not to allow the event to go ahead. However officers kept their distance as hundreds gathered at the Uhuru Park venue. 2017 POLLS Odinga, 72, a veteran opposition leader who claims he has had three elections stolen from him, has refused to accept President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election, which came after a deeply divisive 2017 polls season in which rights activists say at least 92 people were killed. First was an election on August 8, won by Kenyatta, which was annulled in a historic decision by the Supreme Court, which ordered a re-run on October 26. Claiming the ...

Liberian President George Weah said Monday he would seek to remove a “racist ” clause in the country ’ s constitution that restricts citizenship to black people , and pledged to take a pay cut in a dire economy. Liberia was founded by freed slaves from the United States in 1847 , who inserted the requirement into the constitution to create “a refuge and a haven for freed men of colour ”. Weah said in his first state of the nation address that he believed this restriction was “unnecessary , racist , and inappropriate for the place that Liberia occupies today in the comity of nations , ” as well as holding back business. Calling for that provision to be removed , Weah also called for the ban on foreign ownership on property to also be struck from the constitution via referendum. “No foreign investor… will be willing to make significant direct investments in our country if they cannot own property, ”  he noted. Weah ’ s wife, Clar, has faced intense criticism ...

The African Union’s shiny new headquarters was built and paid for by the Chinese government, as a gift to its “African friends”. (Reuters) China built and paid for the African Union’s computer network – but inserted a backdoor allowing it access to the continental organisation’s confidential information In January 2017, the information technology unit at the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa noticed something strange, according to a stunning investigation in French newspaper Le Monde. Every night, between midnight and 2am, there was a strange peak in data usage – even though the building was almost entirely empty. Upon further investigation, the technicians noticed something even stranger. That data – which included confidential information – was being sent to servers based in Shanghai. The African Union’s shiny new headquarters was built and paid for by the Chinese government, as a gift to its “African friends”. But when the building was officially opened ...

George Weah, Liberia’s newly elected president and former soccer star is a dynamic person. He used his lack of education as a catalyst to climb higher; he returned to school and earned a bachelors and master’s degree to further his political aspirations. Now, as he has been sworn-in to take his seat as President of Liberia, there is some buzz about other aspects of his life. President-elect Weah has had several extramarital affairs, however, his “legal” wife is also due to take the seat of the First Lady or is she? Let’s examine the unique family dynamics of President George and Clar Weah. George and Clar Weah met at a U.S. branch of Chase Bank. Weah was captivated by the Jamaican native’s beauty and the rest, as they say, is history. Clar resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is a successful businesswoman; she owns a bakery and Caribbean restaurant. They have three children: George Weah Jr ., Timothy Weah , and Tita Weah. Despite his marriage and the three...

From  THE ECONOMIST . This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline : "One belt, one roadblock" Chinese officials describe the far western province of Xinjiang as a “core area” in the vast swathe of territory covered by the country’s grandiose “Belt and Road Initiative” to boost economic ties with Central Asia and regions beyond. They hope that wealth generated by the scheme will help to make Xinjiang more stable—for years it has been plagued by separatist violence which China says is being fed by global jihadism. But the authorities are not waiting. In recent months they have intensified their efforts to stifle the Islamic identity of Xinjiang’s ethnic Uighurs, fearful that any public display of their religious belief could morph into militancy. Xinjiang’s 10m Uighurs (nearly half of its population) have long been used to heavy-handed curbs: a ban on unauthorised pilgrimages to Mecca, orders to students not to fast durin...

A journalist has released a photo of Barack Obama taken in 2005 claiming the picture could have ended his presidential campaign. Photojournalist Askia Muhammad released a photo earlier this week that shows the former president grinning next to the controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Taken in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting when Obama was a state senator, Muhammad told Fox News that he was pressured to keep the photo secret in case it damaged the politician’s future career. Farrakhan has been known to make both anti-semitic and homophobic remarks in the past which resulted in Obama having to denounce them during a presidential debate in 2008 in Cleveland. Asked why this picture has never been seen before, Muhammad explained: "I was honour bound immediately. The day the picture was taken, a staff member from the CBC called me and said that we have to have the picture back. I was taken aback and we talked and I agree...

Accra, GHANA: President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to attend the funeral of late South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela. The president, who eulogized the late musician for his extraordinary music, will be in South Africa on Sunday for the private funeral. The music legend, who was also a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, passed away on Tuesday, January 23 aged 78 The 1968 Grammy Award winner’s family, in a statement, said he “passed away peacefully” in Johannesburg “after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer”. Remembering the freedom fighter in a series of Tweets, President Akufo-Addo said he will remember him for his exceptional friendship. “Freedom fighter, great artist, great musician, wonderful trumpeter, great friend, many thanks for the extraordinary music, marvellous memories, and exceptional friendship,” he said. The president said, Hugh Masekela “will be sorely missed by al...

Lusaka, ZAMBIA: Zambia is one of the 83 countries that have announced measures to tackle the salmonella baby formula scandal involving French company Lactalis. In a circular to all Provincial Medical Directors, Health Permanent Secretary Dr Kennedy Malama said Zambia has received urgent notification from the European Commission on the food borne outbreak suspected to be caused by infant formula from France. Dr Malama said the outbreak involves S. Agona Salmonella epidemic infants less than six months as 20 cases have been reported. He said the product implicated is Pico infant formula manufactured by Croan Plant in France. “As a country, we are to withdraw the named product from the market with immediate effect and notify the European Commission of actions taken as a matter of urgency,”  Dr Malama’s circular read in part. He has since directed all Provincial Health Directors to conduct investigations on the availability of this product on the market and...

Kampala, UGANDA: President Museveni says some of the members of his cabinet are not from Uganda. He named Julius Wandera Maganda, the State minister for East African Affairs as one of them. “Now, minister Maganda, strictly speaking I don’t regard him as a Ugandan…”  said Mr Museveni on January 23 during the East African Legislative Assembly meeting in Kampala. “…most likely, he is a Kenyan. At one time, they had a Vice President in Kenya called Moody Awori who has a brother [Aggrey Awori] who wanted to be President of Uganda but I defeated him.” Mr Maganda and Mr Aggrey Awori, who from 2009 to 2011 was Uganda’s minister of Information and Communication Technology, are from Busia, a border district with Kenya and 196 kilometres east of Kampala. During his guerrilla days, Mr Museveni would often ‘meet’ members of the Awori family in Funyula and Bunyore in Kenya – the reason Mr Museveni in July 2007 bestowed Mr Moody Awori with the Nalubaale Medal an...

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Israel. The find may suggest that Homo sapiens first migrated out of Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna. Scientists have discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa. The fossil, an upper jawbone with several teeth, was found at a site called Misliya Cave in Israel.  The jawbone is estimated to be 175,000 to 200,000 years old. The age was based on three separate, independent dating methods. The jaw belonged to a young adult of unknown gender. The finding suggests that modern humans left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than had previously been thought.  "Misliya is an exciting discovery," said Rolf Quam, a Binghamton University anthropology professor and a co-author of the study. "It provides the clearest evidence yet that our ancestors first migrated out of Africa much earlier than we previously believed. ...

REUTERS | Lisbon, PORTUGAL: Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and the country’s top hotel chain, Pestana, will open a new hotel under the Pestana CR7 venture in Marrakesh next year and hope to double the brand in three to five years. Ronaldo is following other sports stars who have invested in hotels, including tennis player Andy Murray and soccer’s Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs -- but Ronaldo’s venture has global ambitions. The new project, the fifth hotel under the Pestana CR7 brand - a trademark combination of Ronaldo’s initials and jersey number -- will rent the 160-room hotel for 20 years and manage it, said Pestana Hotel Group Chief Development Officer Jose Roquette. Moroccan investor M Avenue will finance and own it. “It is a brand that will grow ... In the next three to five years we will quickly double the number of the hotels,” Roquette told reporters, mentioning Ibiza and Milan among possible locations. Pestana, which has a hotel in Casablanc...

Asamoah Gyan says he is not moved by persistent attacks by his detractors as he is more concentrated on giving his all for the Black Stars. The Stars captain took to his official Instagram page, Wednesday night, to rubbish allegations of him using black magic to destroy other players in the team to his advantage. The Kayserispor man has advised players, who go round spreading those false allegations, to spend time, work hard and improve because he, Gyan, won’t stoop so low to use black magic on players that are not on his level. ”A player will say he is not progressing because his teammate cast a spell or used Juju (black magic) [on him]. But that player should ask himself if he has more qualities than whoever he is [accusing], ”  Gyan said furiously. ”For example, if I want to do something [use black magic] on somebody then the person should be higher than me not someone who’s not at my level.” He added; ”People think I will be distracted when they accuse me but a...

A movie produced by a German film student about the 2015 Mandera bus attack in Kenya has just been nominated for an Oscar. The short film, Watu Wote , or Swahili for "All of Us," tells the story of how average Kenyans resisted Al Shabab. The film premiered in Nairobi Tuesday night and is based on the real-life events of December 21, 2015. On that day, Al-Shabab militants attacked a bus headed from Nairobi to Mandera, a town at Kenya's border with Somalia. The terrorists tried to coerce the Muslim passengers to identify the Christians. The passengers refused. The film depicts the harrowing encounter. German film student Katja Benrath directed the short film as her graduation project at the Hamburg Media School. "We felt very good being nominated because this is a huge achievement being nominated, for us, for Germany and for Kenya,"  said Benrath.  "It's just great." Kenya, in particular the country's border regi...

From  THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE . This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Keeping up with the Khumalos" SOUTH AFRICANS have dubbed this month “Janu-worry”. After Christmas and the summer holidays come the bills. A popular classified-advertising website is full of pleas for help. “Mashonisa [loan shark] urgently needed,” says a typical post. “No scammers.” Radio call-in shows offer catharsis and survival tips. The rest of the year is tough on pocketbooks too. South Africans are the world’s most avid borrowers, according to the World Bank. A study published in 2014 showed that 86% had borrowed money in the previous year (see chart). Most borrow from friends or family, but an astonishing 25m out of about 37m adult South Africans owe money to financial institutions or other corporate lenders (such as utilities or shops that allow them to buy now and pay later). To put that in context, fewer t...