[Ugnet] LAND/ETTAKA/Property rights/ Ebbaluwa ya Katikkiro
See attachment. FYI- fnl 13 Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). - Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Be the first one to see it.
Meaningful Media/Melnitz Movies Film Series Kick-Off Event: WAR/DANCE Meaningful Media is thrilled to announce the launch of our new screening series in association with Melnitz Movies. Meaningful Media and Melnitz Movies will periodically co-host a free screening, Q A and reception for a prominent new film that addresses social issues across the globe. We look forward to sharing these films with our members and the community at large, and hope to see you there. Come see a free sneak preview of the Sundance documentary WAR/DANCE before it hits theaters next month. Listen to live African drumming, meet the filmmakers, and mingle with students and professionals interested in meaningful media at our catered event. WAR/DANCE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd @ 7:30 PM Screening and QA with directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Reception to follow UCLA James Bridges Theater (click here for directions) Free and open to the public. Tickets will be given away on a first come first serve basis. WAR/DANCE Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, War/Dance tells the story of three children whose families have been torn apart and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in a music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation's capital becomes an opportunity to regain part of their childhood and taste victory for the first time in their lives. Meaningful Media (www.meaningfulmedia.org) is a non-profit network providing resources to inspire and empower those committed to improving our world through media. To sign up to receive updates and invitations from Meaningful Media, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subscribe in the subject line. Please circulate this announcement. Everyone is welcome. - Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] WAR DANCE
WAR DANCE Screening October 23rd, 2007, 7:30 pm James Bridges Theatre - Melnitz Hall, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) Free Open to the Public Sponsored by Melnitz Movies and Meaningful Media WAR DANCE Summary: Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, WAR DANCE tells the story of three children whose families have been torn apart and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in the national music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation's capital becomes an opportunity to regain part of their childhood and taste victory for the first time in their lives. The filmmakers Sean Fine Andrea Nix Fine will be there to answer your questions. A reception follows the event. View the trailer here: http://www.shineglobal.org/shine_trailer_wardance.htm Directions To James Bridges Theatre on UCLA campus: Get directions to the Hilgard and Sunset Intersection, Los Angeles, CA. Turn south on Hilgard from Sunset, then make an immediate right into the campus. Parking structure #3 is directly ahead ($8 parking). Take the elevator to the bottom floor for underpass walkway to theater. The theatre will be on your left as you walk out of the deck. Please circulate widely. fnl 13 Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). - Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Federo philosophy
In Uganda we are all different and we are all alike. What matters most, however, is that we are all significant. 13 Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). Support self-determination efforts in your area. Happy Thanksgiving! FN Lugemwa www.federo.com - Sponsored Link Get an Online or Campus degree - Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's -in less than one year.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Museveni defends forest allocation
"Forests are easier to plant than constructing industries," said Museveni. Sometimes solving a problem causes more harm than good. The President needs to check his 'hypothesis,' because problems often develop a life of their own. Why not construct factories where they are no forests? FN Lugemwa 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). sammusoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Museveni defends forest allocation Sunday, 12th November, 2006 E-mail article Print article FACE-TO-FACE: Museveni chats with Rubaga South MP Nampijja and Mayor Sebaggala as Mutagamba looks on By Conan Businge PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has justified the sale of forests, saying it opens more land for industrialisation. Museveni said the greatest problem in Africa is inadequate manufacturing industries and called for the usage of forest lands. He said he cannot aimlessly sell forests to private investors, saying he knows their value."In Africa, the greatest problem we have is inadequacy in the number of manufacturing industries. This has affected us so much. Forests are easier to plant than constructing industries," said Museveni. Museveni was on Saturday launching a safe water accessibility project for the urban poor people in Rubaga south. Museveni promised this when campaigning for the February presidential elections. Water and environment minister Maria Mutagamba, mayor Nasser Sebaggala, area MP Susan Nampijja Lukyamuzi and National Water and Sewerage Corporation chief Dr. William Muhairwe were present. Environmentalists and the local people have protested the proposal to give the Mehta Group 5,000 hectares of Mabira forest to cultivate sugarcane. Museveni said, "I lure investors that show interest in constructing industries. Industries get us employment, raise our social status and raise taxes which we use to support our country especially in the education sector. "We can now fund UPE (Universal Primary Education), and free secondary education is beginning soon." Museveni added, "I just ignore people making false allegations about me. I believe in the construction of factories and I have no apologies over that. Most countries are economically strong because of factories. If you have factories, you can get funds to conserve the environment but you cannot do this when you are poor." Museveni recently said he would not arbitrarily give away Mabira forest to investors without permission from Parliament. He reportedly said he would first brief the Cabinet, which would present the issue before the NRM caucus to table it in Parliament. Museveni promised to expand the accessibility of safe water to 500,000 poor urban people in Kampala. He said water supply had been extended to 250,000 urban poor and the number would double soon. He said in his campaign in Kampala, residents told him that a 20-litre jerrycan of water cost sh200. "Now you can get it for sh25 at the water kiosks in Kampala," Museveni said. Muhairwe promised to supply water for sh25 a jerrycan at the 1,200 kiosks around Kampala. "Another 1,000 kiosks will be built in the next six months. We are also to construct GABA III. It will be enough for the next five years. This is not political. It is technical," he said. __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Kampala hotel uganda Kampala uganda hotel Uganda safari American sailing association Uganda tour Your email settings: Individual Email|TraditionalChange settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group |Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use| Unsubscribe__,_._,___ Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] The Last King of Scotland: Movie coming to you
Saw a preview in the theatre. Check it out.http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thelastkingofscotland/trailera/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/FN Lugemwa, www.federo.com 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] SATURDAY: UNAA 'S THIRD PLENARY SESSION
Source: http://www.unaanewyork.com/general/programsaturday.phpBefore the boat cruise(s) and before watching Mama Mia on Broadway: http://broadway.yahoo.com/shows/show.php?s=mmialoc=8There will be a 9:10am - 12:00pmThird Plenary Session - Political Development Forum: Progress for peace in Northern Uganda Regional Integration: East African federation vs Federalism within Uganda. The future of Uganda under multi party politics.Moderators: Shaka Ssali Patrick AyotaSpeakers: Political Party Representatives Government representatives IndividualsFN Lugemwa 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). Peace and Reconstruction in Northern Uganda and in addition, the impact of the conflict in the North on development in Uganda Political and Structural reform in E. Africa The pros and cons of Federalism in Uganda for its13 regions The future of Uganda under multiparty democracy Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] THE FUTURE: M'SOFT's COMPETITION
SOFTWARESave with online substitutes Web-based competitors of Microsoft are taking aim at its popular programs. That could mean the advent of PCs selling for $100 or so less than today's Microsot-stuffed boxes. The free alternatives.Instead of: word Try: Writely.com : Collaborate in real time; store documents online Instead of: Excel TRY: iRows.com : Make changes from anywhere . Coming soon: Google Spreadsheets, in testing now. ( really good)Instead of : Outlook Try: Google Calender. Schedule; organize; integrate with Gmail. Instead of : Microsoft's Windows operating system Try: Linux. It's now more user-friendly. Source: Kiplingers' Personal Finance of Agust 2006FN Lugemwa 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] BRAIN GAIN
Brain gain: combating selective immigrationhttp://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinionsitemid=493language=1Eulian Roberts says the success of Qatars science park shows what can happen when a country makes the creation of knowledge-based jobs a national priority. FN Lugemwa Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
Re: [Ugnet] UCC not Individuals must own .ug domain
No, Mw. Kiggundu. If it ain't broke, you haven't looked enough, fix it anyway. FN Lugemwa Kiggundu Mukasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it ain't broke ... don't fix it.KiggsOn Apr 19, 2006, at 1:20 PM, d b wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCC not Individuals must own .ug domainTo Hon. John Nasasira UCC Executive Director Member Parliament Uganda National Council of Science and Technology DirectorGood as it may be, reading in the Daily Monitor Tuesday April 11, 2006 about the article what if govt owned the .ug domain? I was surprised at Mr. Charles Musisis answers as to why he solely is still the custodian of .ug domain.About 1997/98, I wrote an article about the same, when it was alleged that .ug domain was now an exclusive property of some few Uganda and American individuals. Since then nothing has happened to change the status quo!The result has been a slow down in the internet expansion and proliferation into the country. Reasons partly being user fees paid in dollars are terribly exorbitant for the majority Ugandans.We have a full Ministry of Communication and an independent arm to over see the use of the industry namely Uganda Communications Commission.Well as UCC has an obligation to show accountability, as to how it uses the money it collects from Uganda communication users, other entities as reported in the article dont have such obligation! We know, UCC is not an angel and has own shortfalls but matter of accountability and internet expansion concerns us a great deal.What is Mr. Charles Musisis Computer Frontiers International Ltd. Contribution to the development of the internet in Uganda? We are not claiming that Mr. Charles Musisi has not done a wonderful job! Indeed he has done a lot but where are the limits in his stance to own .ug domain register?Rightly so, Mr. Charles Musisis exposure to us that he is just a trustee to guarantee domain space stability reliability, in a spirit of community service falls short of explaining what will happen if he was not there to watch over .ug domain!It will be a great idea to know how the trusteeship works!All of us who were involved in the promotion of the internet we did it for a reason and in the spirit of community service. However Mr. Charles Musisis claims are contradictory to the exorbitant fees levied on just acquiring the domain. If I may ask, how is Mr.Charles Musisi using the money he earns on .ug domain registration?Non-profit making organisation have to pay in dollars i.e. schools, hospitals, churches and other government entities. 10 years on, all internet service providers are still collecting money in dollars as if Ugandan earn their salaries in dollars.It is flabbergasting that UCC has failed to set the standards in this regard and abolish the dollar service providers.Repulsive to say the least and for us, the time has come to go back to the drawing boards and restart a ground network to attack such an establishment which sole intention is to reap off Ugandans. Uganda currency is the shilling!It is a shame moreover, that Mr. Charles Musisi is proud of being a custodian of only 4000 clients who entrusted him as he says, of their data. Uganda has 25 million people bye the way. Nt less than 15 districts are connected or more than 2 % of all schools in Uganda. Who are the 4000 clients to Mr. Charles Musisis Computer Frontiers International Ltd.?Besides being a guarantee of a domain names, Mr. Charles Musisi should state it clearly that over 80% generated in this country is kept on different servers outside Uganda and is not with Mr. Charles Musisi.On a question, what is the performance of your trade in terms of new client getting more .ug accounts, Mr. Charles Musisi is non committal but claims the New Vision and the Daily Monitor then google, Microsoft are our customers. This is a lot of hogwash. Even without a .ug domain couldnt Ugandan access Google, microsft, Toshiba, Fugistu etc?Uganda in the world and on the African continent was among the first countries to use the internet in more than one exclusive ways.Please Mr. Charles Musisi we are talking about Uganda and Uganda internet users! It is them who are our sole concern.Uganda was among the first countries to have its entire government establishment on the internet. The trend went as far as having some of Uganda newsprint and radio stations on the internet. The entire Western Europe, a bastion of technological innovation had no more that 5 governments on the internet. We did a
[Ugnet] RWANDA'S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A good idea..Rwanda's president creates a new science ministryhttp://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNewsitemid=2751language=1Rwanda's president has separated the science ministry from the ministry for education, and placed it under his direct supervision.FN Lugemwa 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda-www.buganda.com, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi-www.banyakigezi.org, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Can the Kabaka co-exist with an elected Katikkiro?
Note: forwarded message attached. 13Uganda Federal Union States: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda-www.buganda.com, (Bugisu Sebei), Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi-www.banyakigezi.org, Lango, Teso, Tooro, (West Nile Madi). Yahoo! Travel Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations!---BeginMessage--- Dear Fedsnetters,I wrote the piece belowin the first week of January this year (2006)but I held onto it until after electionson advice of my colleagues in order not to have it exploited or mis-interpreted by politicians in Uganda campaigning for the Presidency. The issue is one that we have to deal with squarely. The views expressed in the article are mine alone, and I take responsibility for them. I welcome your criticism as well as constructive ideas. We should not let the federal momentum be stopped by any issue. It is a pity that the debate about federalism in Uganda is again revolving around Buganda alone despite our longstanding argument that for federalism to work in Uganda it should be for all of Uganda's regions. The faster we dispense of the Katikkiro issue the better for the federalism agenda for Uganda at-large.Please read on: < /DIV> Can an elected Katikkiro co-exist with the Kabaka?As Secretary-General of Fedsnet, arguably the leading portalof federalism information for Ugandans, it is incumbent upon me to comment on the controversy regarding the position of the Katikkiro in Buganda.The debate about whether the Katikkiro should be elected or appointed by the Kabaka is very pertinent to the federalism debate. In the spirit of genuine federalism,Uganda's regions should decide mechanismsfor their own internal self-governance guided by universal democratic principles and Human rights, and not in contravention ofthe hoped fornational, federal constitution. At your convenience, please seethe Fedsnetmodel for such a constitutionat: http://successisthekey.tripod.com.I s upport election of the Katikkiro fromamong candidates screened and approved by the Kabaka and the Bataka following an elaborate process. This is the positionthatwe, Fedsnetters,presented to the Ssempebwa Constitutional Review Commission in April 2003. The Bataka, it was reported, insisted on a similar arrangement upon meeting President Museveni in May 2005. Thus it seems thatBuganda'scurrent hard-line stance against the election of the Katikkirowas largelyprecipitatedby the government's omissionof such ascreening process forprospective Katikkirosinthe regional tier billit presented to parliament.Given theimportance of the relationshipbetween theKabaka as Supreme Constitutional head of Buganda, and the Katikkiro asits administrative head,along withoverwhelmingdesire for cultural integrityby Buganda and other regions, the Bataka, and others, are justified in shunning anybill or lawthat does not recognize the Kabaka's and cultural guardians'role in vetting candidates for Katikkiro.This article examines alternative proposals that have been presented on the subject of the election of the Katikkiro.It then proposes an arrangement within Buganda's constitution that ensures that a vetted,elected ExecutiveKatikkir o of Buganda is accountable to the people resident in Buganda, while --paradoxical and conflictual as it may seem -- he/she is keenly aware of the supreme position and authority of the Kabaka in Buganda. In line with this thinking,the articlepositsan ideathat may help guarantee that the Kabaka's office continues to be viewedby all political playersascentral to Buganda's affairs beyond thecultural sphere, though not in a partisan political sense. The debate and the IssuesShould the Kabaka nominate the Katikkirofrom among elected members of the Lukiiko, or should Buganda residents directly elect the Katikkiro? This isatopic with strong argumentson eitherside, but the issues of accountability, tradition and cultural integrity are major points of contention.In democracies, accountability is very much intertwinedwith the people's vote and their ability to removeerrantleaderseither directly through subsequent elections, or indirectly through their legislative representatives' votes of 'no confidence'. Now, in a situation where the Kabaka appoints someone Katikkiro, whether from within the Lukiiko, or from without, accountability becomes murky in that cultural authorities, such as the Bataka, or entrenched interests,may through their counsel to a potentially insulated Kabaka, anchor a politically unaccountable [to the people]Katikkiro, thus stunting the growth of democracy and good governance.In the age of CNN and BBC broadcastsemittingdaily images andnews of peopleworldwide rebelling against unaccountable institutions, and withever increasingaccess tohigher educationthat nurtures analytical and independentthinking -- the possibility of a perception of unaccount able Katikkiros beingshielded by unelectable Kabakas,may, inthe long-term,do moreto
[Ugnet] Katrina, Ugandans wanted
If you are a Ugandan living in one of the following places, please contact me @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Texarkana-AR 2.Longview, Marshal, Nacogdoches and Tayler -TX 3.Alexanderia, Baton Rouge, Grambling, Natchitoches, Ruston and Shreveport-Bossier City-LA Nigerians and Kenyans don't qualify. FN Lugemwa The world is my country, all humankind is my brethren, and to do good is my religion --Thomas Paine. __ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] UNAA Presidential Campaign 2005
Note: forwarded message attached. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ---BeginMessage--- August 13, 2005 Dear Fellow Ugandans and friends: Thank you for your continued dedication to this campaign, and to our vision of a UNAA that meets our goals and aspirations as an immigrant community. I especially appreciate your overwhelming insistence on a positive campaign while my opponents are trying to derail us to personal issues that will do nothing to uplift our UNAA organization, and our community. Your support is overwhelming and your wonderful flow of ideas is keeping us focused on our plan to drive the changes you desire to change UNAA for the better. I am excited to have Dr. Frank Matovu running for Vice President who shares this vision and is committed to this positive campaign. I do apologize though that this week I am playing catch up in my responses to your comments to my campaign website. Your feedback is important to me and I assure you that I am working hard to be caught up by this weekend. The reason for this delay is because I just got back from a trip to our motherland Uganda. Today, I would also like to share with you my experience and report on my mission to Uganda. I successfully accomplished two things: accompanying my mum here from Uganda, and to pave the way for a medical mission group led by Dr. Noel Johnson of Global Missions Fellowship. Thirty-five medical professionals are in Uganda setting up a free medical camp affiliated with Kinoni Health Center in Masaka. I started working with this group last year around November when I gave a presentation at the Maple Park Church in Lynnwood, Washington about the health needs of this area, especially concerning women and children. At this same presentation I also spoke about health needs in Lira and the Northern Uganda area. I received many questions about Kony and the atrocities in the North. The congregation was afraid to go to Northern Uganda right away because of fear of security issues. With some more assurance, they still plan to go to Northern Uganda on their next mission trip which might be sometime next year. I received tremendous support from Hon. Mike Mukula of the Ministry of Health to make the group's trip smooth and efficiently get the needed supplies into Uganda. I appreciate the support and efficiency of Hon. Mukula's office. This is an example of how a good Friends of Uganda program should work. The mission group knows that I am running for the UNAA Presidency and insisted in putting in their two cents in hope that it will help my campaign. Please read comments below: Margaret Musoke has been a strong ally and inspiration to our team going from the US to Uganda on a medical mission. She has smoothed the way by personally meeting with the Ugandan government officials and has given us invaluable insights and resources. We would not have been able to complete this mercy mission to Uganda without Margaret's inspiration and help. Dr. Noel Johnson To Whom It May Concern: I am writing on behalf of Margaret Musoke who is a tireless worker on behalf of her beloved home of Uganda. My husband, Noel, who is a physician, and I, a registered nurse, will be taking a group to Masaka, Uganda for a mini-medical mission trip to aid and serve the people of need there. Margaret has been invaluable in her assistance of time, contacts, and helpful advice to us in our planning. She is warm, friendly, energetic, and has the drive to accomplish what she says she will do. I strongly and enthusiastically recommend Margaret for the position of leadership in the Ugandan North American Association without reservation. She is a true asset who will benefit all who are under her leadership. Sincerely yours, Trisch Johnson, RN Brothers and sisters, locating Friends of Uganda and leveraging these relationships is one of my greatest strengths. Business development and building alliances is a skill that I have cultivated in positions held in corporate America within the last 15 years. My job is not to count the money but to bring in the money. Counting money can be easily learned, bringing in the money is a skill cultivated over time. I want to bring this skill to UNAA and take us to the next level. All of us have our own issues in personal development to deal with; if these were not there we would not be human. But these aside, I would like you to make a choice based on professional merit and work ethic and caliber of individuals that will uplift us and make us all proud. Our leadership offers this, and we ask for your support to put our vision into action. If you truly want results and to see a UNAA that is a participant in mainstream America and a resource to our homeland then vote for me as your President and vote for Dr. Frank Matovu as your Vice President. This is my pledge to you. Warmest regards, Margaret
[Ugnet] FWD: UNAA Presidential Campaign 2005--VP
Note: forwarded message attached.__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Dear fellow Ugandans and friends: Dr. Frank Sseguya Matovu is one of the founding members in Atlanta who in 1988 formed a non political organization that later evolved to become UNAA. I am honored to work alongside Frank on my campaign for UNAA presidency as he is a living embodiment of sincerity and selfless passion for our community. Over the years, Frank has continued to champion the cause of unity and has demonstrated leadership by creating companies and serving as President of United Investment and Holding Inc. (UNIHOLD), a Ugandan American company that specializes in investment in profitable Ugandan enterprises, President of Ugandan North American Medical Society (UNAMS), a professional organization for physicians of Ugandan decent in North America, and founder and moderator of UNAANET, the discussion group for members of UNAA. Those who know Frank personally or have had an opportunity to interact with him will agree that Frank is an inspiration to our community and an asset to the UNAA organization. In a time of change for UNAA, Frank has two important qualities he brings to the table: the ability to see the potential of a new UNAA and to visualize what the changes will bring to the new UNAA, and an insatiable commitment to excellence. We are in dire need of these two qualities in our UNAA leadership today. Frank knows where we have been, where we are heading and what it will take to get there. For the last 17 years, Frank has maintained an unwavering passion for our UNAA, remained focused on the goals and direction and kept true to the mission statement--UNAA being a non political organization. It is with great pride and honor that I nominate Dr. Frank Matovu as my running mate and UNAA Vice President for 2005-2007. Frank has the experience, the character, the ideas, the passion, and the values to be a great Vice President for UNAA. I have selected a partner who has reviewed my platform and totally embraces the roadmap for advancing UNAA. I cannot think of a more capable and dedicated partner. I hereby introduce the Musoke/Matovu ticket. We are requesting for your hand, your help, your voice and your vote. Please join us in advancing our organization. Be in Minnesota to vote. Warmest regards, Margaret Musoke Candidate for UNAA President 2005 Please visit http://www.mdmusoke.com for campaign updates ---End Message--- ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] FWD: The Political Economy of Uganda
I must have missed the original article. Sorry! FN Lugemwamusamize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Lugemwa, This report was referenced by the article below: World Bank may cut aid NOT AVAILABLE: Yabroudy By Paul BushariziA World Bank-commissioned study has recommended aid cuts to Uganda over the next three years, warning that recent political developments have jeopardised the countrys development agenda.A team headed by Prof. Joel Barkan of the University of Iowa, Senior Consultant on Africa Governance for the World Bank, visited Uganda last year before preparing the report entitled The Political Economy of Uganda - The Art of Managing a Donor-Financed Neo-Patrimonial State.Extreme prudence is required, the confidential report says, adding, we regret that we cannot be more positive about the present political situation in Uganda, especially given the countrys admirable record through the late 1990s.The report recommends that, The Bank should plan for the possibility of a low case lending program in Uganda during the period of the forthcoming Country Assistance Strateg y (CAS). Second, the Bank and other donors must rethink the appropriateness of continued budget support, and especially, the appropriateness of increasing budget support.Low case would mean reducing aid to a bare minimum, which in Ugandas case would limit it to humanitarian issues.The reports adds, Since the Bank cannot weight in explicitly on Ugandas political process, this is the only mechanism at its disposal to signal its concern. Conversely, the continued provision of high levels of budget support, especially when such support can be diverted into classified budgets and used for political purposes, indirectly involves the Bank in the political process.To continue budgetary support at present levels risks embarrassment to the Bank, especially after it has been warned, not only by this report, but in what is common knowledge and discourse among leading members of the diplomatic community in Kampala, the report says.The report recomme nds a m ove back to closely-monitored project lending in the ongoing three-year aid programme up to 2008 although government has been urging donors to shift further to budget support, where the government decides how to allocate funds.The 74-page report commissioned to establish the risk to World Bank lending programmes in Uganda agreed that the government had been able to establish a legitimate and effective government, restore the economy and involve the major tribes in a one political system.However, it stated that Progress has stalled and to some extentparticularly in the northunraveled.The Government has largely failed to integrate the countrys diverse peoples into a single political process that is viable over the long term . Perhaps most significant, the political trend-lines, as a result of the Presidents apparent determination to press for a third term, point downward.The study found that, Musevenis bid for a third term has split the Movement rais ed the prospect for political violence and significantly increased the impetus for corruption as the campaigns to change the constitution and reelect the President will require large sums of money.It goes on to warn that with elections not due until March and June 2006, the next two years are likely to be years of increasing political conflict. Whether Uganda will be able to manage this heightened level of conflict is difficult to predict.The report concludes its findings by warning that the uncertainty surrounding the political transition, the war in the north and the growing corruption mean Uganda is facing a period of rising political uncertainty.World Bank country representative Grace Yabroudy was unavailable to comment on the report.The joint authors of the report with Barkan were Jack Titsworth, Africa Governance Consultant for the World Bank, Prof Njuguna Ngethe of the University of Nairobi and Saillie Kayunga, a pol itical science lectur er at Makerere University. New Vision: Tuesday, 17th May, 2005Lugemwa FN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] com" [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Jonathan Chadiha [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:04:44 -0700 (PDT)Subject: [UNAANET] Have you guys seen this document? JCTHE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UGANDA(THE ART OF MANAGING A DONOR-FINANCED NEO-PATRIMONIAL STATE)Joel D. Barkan (Team Leader)Professor of Political Science, University of IowaSenior Consultant on Governance, Africa Region, TheWorld BankSaillie Simba KayungaSenior Lecturer of Political ScienceMakerere UniversityNjuguna NgetheAssociate Professor of Political Science and Former Director of the Institute for DevelopmentStudies,University of NairobiJack TitsworthGovernance Consultant, Africa Region, The World BankDar es Salaam*Final draft of July 6, 2004*A background paper commissioned by the World Bank infulfillment of Purchase Order 7614742.Executive Summary This study examines Ugandas
[Ugnet] Fwd: UNAA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2005
Note: forwarded message attached.__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Dear fellow Ugandans and friends: Thank you for your continued support and encouragement. With less than 49 days away from the Minnesota convention, we should continue to focus on what matters to us as Ugandan immigrants in North America and the changes we need to make to advance UNAA to the next level and achieve our dreams of tomorrow. Today, I would like to talk about our youth and how we should position the new UNAA to provide them a better life here in North America, in the true African spirit of "It takes a village to raise a child". My platform, proposes to provide interactive workshops and programs that teach skills which are not provided in a typical classroom: mentorship, partnerships, leadership and effective networking. Our youth should take advantage of the access provided by successful Ugandans living in North America. We should maximize talents, skills and professional references. The Chinese have done it, the Koreans have done it and the Ethiopians are now doing it. Let's borrow from these communities that continue to give their children a competitive edge over ours. Let's not rest on our laurels and assume that this society alone will help us prepare our children for leadership and success. Sometimes it is this society that breaks what we are trying to build. Unless we make changes now, our next generation will inherit a UNAA as we know today. We can seize this opportunity and restructure the youth program to include three career vectors: leadership, financial management and advancement in business and technology. These three career vectors will enable our children to successfully compete in North America. Our children are eager to participate in restructuring UNAA when given the right opportunity. At the UNAA Seattle 2004 convention, I introduced youth presenters and I was amazed by their presentations during the workshop. I witnessed first hand how our children listened, enjoyed and looked up to the young adult peers who were excelling. It also gave our youth leaders the opportunity to enhance their leadership and communication skills. For example, one of our future leaders, Jeremiah Situka, from Houston Texas, a computer engineering student gave a powerful presentation on Leadership beyond GPA. This presentation emphasized the importance of skills learned outside the classroom. "Leadership, communication and community involvement along with your GPA are essential elements in today's world," he said. These skills and his GPA earned Jeremiah an internship with Exxon Mobil Corporation. We also have those yearning to participate in a new UNAA. Another young adult who recently completed her MBA, Miriam Nalumansi wrote, "The purpose of this email is to thank you for the work you are doing on behalf of Ugandans in the US and to introduce myself in the event that I may be in a position to be helpful to you and/or UNAA sometime in the future" I believe that a restructured youth program will provide our youth with the opportunity to strive for a better future and to take part in the promise of America. I also believe that collectively we have a role to play in helping them gain the tools needed to build successful lives with dignity and purpose. That's at the core of it takes a village to raise a child. I am urging you to set forth on this journey with me and bring vision to our UNAA youth at every convention and keep the American dream alive for all of us. If you feel in your heart that change is inevitable, then come to Minnesota and vote for change. Your vote for me is a vote for our youth. See you in Minnesota! Warmest regards, Margaret Musoke Candidate for UNAA President 2005 http://www.mdmusoke.com ---End Message--- ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Her Royal Highness The Nnabageraka's visit to Dallas
http://www.geocities.com/Nnabagerekatour05/ FN Lugemwa __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Science, sciecne, science
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNewsitemid=1944language=1 FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] My idea of a good school!
Nova Scotians can now go to beer school Last Updated Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:44:02 EST CBC News[HALIFAX-] Students at Nova Scotia Community College are now able to earn an academic credit for cradling a glass of beer. The Labatt Beer Institute, which officially opened in Halifax's Brewery Market complex on Wednesday, will train students on everything from the history of beer to matching beer choices with different foods, to how to pour it properly. "What I would have thought, in my day, is that there was very little about beer that the students didn't know," joked Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm. In fact, the new offering is a serious course designed to help students taking the hospitality and culinary arts program. Students will learn about beer in a pub setting with 16 brews on tap. There is a lot to learn about beer, said Chris Mosher, who is both the course instructor and the institute's general man ager. For example, "in Belgium they have a very unique ritual where every glass is hand-washed," he said. Servers mist the glass and pour foam over the side before rinsing it off and presenting the glass to the customer on a coaster. Mosher said he has a high level of job satisfaction. "I love saying that I teach beer. Everybody has a great passion for beer everybody that I meet, anyway. And they're amazed by the things they don't know about beer and I love being able to tell them about it." The institute was set up with $1 million from Labatt Breweries of Canada. -- -FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Buganda-Goverment New Secret deal.
Mw. Kibuka, Listers This latest agreementbetween Mengo and the government [as reported in the Monitor]reflects the politics of expediency, as opposed to genuine, stabilizing solutions to politically contentious issues. Unfortunately, our leaders do not seem ready, or willing to emulate the long-term vision of great nation builders elsewherewho produced documents and agreements that transcended their own time. I agree with Mr. Kibuka[and others] that this agreement is grossly inadequate, and even inimicalto the federal cause. It could do to the federal cause what the 'no party', movement politics has done to Political parties, that is, it may be very difficult to achieve genuine federalism in the future once this proposed agreement is enshrined in the constitution; it could have much the same impact as the flawed 1962 semi-federal arrangement [which was not truly federal] that made it difficult for many people in Uganda today to understand, and appreciate the need for genuine federalism, embracing all of Ugandas regions. It is yet another example [like in the case of movement politics] of our leaders ignoring world-class models of governance [evolved over centuries], with the belief that theyare inventing something new. They do not seem to realize that the issues that they are grappling with have beendealt with by other countries centuries before, and that the models of governance that evolved took intoaccount a lot of experience of power and economic dynamics in the political systemsthe features of which they are attempting to implement. On the face of it the agreement between Mengo and the government seems like a move in the right direction, but in reality it is a ratherexpedient compromise that mainly serves the interests of the negotiating parties without due regard to genuine federalism, or even long term constitutional stability. It seems both parties to the negotiations wanted to be seen as having delivered something even though what they have delivered could spoil the ultimate goal of federalism, accountability and good governance. The good parts of the agreement concern the elections of the Lukiiko and the Katikiro. The offending parts as Mr. Kibuka pointed out include the fact that the regions would essentially be under the President's office [notwithstanding the separation of policy and non-policy matters]. This arrangement is contrary to federalism, and is utter mockery. The already powerful Presidency has been made even more powerful. Thecentral government, whichnever wanted to cede control, has managed to get a modified version of what it always insisted on, the regional tier that is a mere agent of the central government. If any one had any doubts, one just has to considerthe report in the Monitor that the President may take over the administration of any region, whichbasically means that the regions are accountable to the President [they should be accountableto thenationalconstitution], and that essentially they do n ot have anytruly autonomous powers. That is not federalism. Another major flaw of the agreement is the fact that, according to the Monitor's report, the regionswould notraise any direct taxes. This arrangement would handicap them, and make them no more than glorified LC5s. The lack of independent taxation powers by the regionsmay in timeserve to undermine their very existence and support because the people will expect them to deliver more than they possibly can without independent sources of revenue raised through collecting pre-determined percentages ofmajor tax revenues raised from within their environs.Lack of an independent capacity to raise major tax revenues [levies, mentioned in the agreement, cannot be considered adequate] is likely to diminish regional economic initiative and innovation, two of the greatest benefits of federalism. Worse,financial dependencyis likely to produceperennial tension between the central government and the regions; the central governmentis likely toblame any lack of development and progress on the regions and their leaders, while the regionsmay blame the lack of adequate funds from the central government for their lack of achievement. In other words, thisis an arrangement that wouldmake accountability not better, but rather, worse. It is also likely to intertwine the fortunes of elected regional leaders with those of the sitting President in a quid pro quo kind of way since the regions would fall under the office of the President [and may consequently result in the isolation of cultural leaders].It is a recipe for disaster. Revenue raising [and sharing]capacity by federal regions is the linchpin of genuine federalism, without which you get the chaos and circus currently found in Nigeria [and which Nigerians arediscussing correcting through a national convention]. Interestingly, the current agreement between Mengo and the government does not [as reported] seem to put regional investment and economic mobilization under regional
[Ugnet] Fwd: [FedsNet] fake federo to evolve into genuine federo
Note: forwarded message attached. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'---BeginMessage--- How does a fake diamond evolve into a genuine one? On Monday, 14 February 2005, with aplomb, the Katikkiro of Buganda made a formal announcement in the Lukiiko of a secret deal he had reached with President Museveni. He said that in the long term Buganda would benefit from this secret deal. In other words, in the short term, Buganda and Uganda would continue to be suffocated by President Museveni. There was no indication what the short term and long term represented in terms of time scales. Evidently, his hope for Buganda and Uganda was speculative and thus the deal was a nothing deal for Buganda. It also begs the question that what was the reason to negotiate a Uganda-wide deal in secret? Did either party feel it owned us that we didnt need to know what was being negotiated in our name? I really dont know where to start but no doubt, the diplomatic language engaging the current exchanges on the secret deal regarding the alleged fake federo deal is very troubling. Someone has to explain it to me how the fake federo, which is going to be constitutionalised, will evolve into a genuine federo system? As I understand it, the constitution would have to be re-written in such delicate language as to allow for many interpretations to be made yet it is the case that the Uganda constitution has been written in the language of enabling law with little room for wide interpretation. Are we now to assume that the amended constitution will be very different from the original? Then how does it retain its consistent and clarity? Someone is taking us for a ride and I want out. You can not possibly turn a fake diamond into a genuine diamond or can you? Buganda has always prided itself for its rule of law and the attending traditions. Enforcement and maintenance of those traditions has always been helped by the structures in place. The Katikkiro in his wisdom negotiated a deal that wipes away the ssaza, gombolola, miruka and village chiefs from the structures of Buganda, apparently to be replaced by President Museveni nose and ears popularly know as the LCs. How are these to evolve since the Kabaka will not have the powers to appoint his own chiefs? On that Monday, the Speaker of the Lukiiko, who was party to the secret deal, did not allow members of the Lukiiko to debate that secret deal. He simply announced that since members had clapped and stumped their feet during the Katikkiros speech it was therefore clear to him that the Lukiiko had endorsed the secret deal and was thus adjourned. Not only did these gentlemen decide our future in secret but also wouldnt allow people to formally express an opinion on the record on their shenanigans. Interestingly, this has been applauded by some members of the public and the media in Uganda. Now, anyone who says that this deal is good for Buganda or Uganda is either on speed, or is an opportunist of sorts, or has no comprehension of the politics of President Museveni. It is very clear to me that this secret deal has nothing whatsoever to do with federo. Do you disagree? Well, what do we mean by federo or how do you define federo? And are we advocating federo for its own sake? My understanding is that federo is a means to an end. If retaining the structures of Buganda is part of the end product then evidently the Katikkiro has failed Buganda. To argue that the secret deal constitutes a starting point in the negotiations for a fully-fledged federo system of government in Uganda is to suggest that the secret deal represents aspects of a federo system. Can anyone identify those aspects of federo for me please? I have with me the Buganda submission to the Uganda Constitutional Review Commission, which was presented to the Commission by the Katikkiro himself. In its General Introduction, this is what it had to say: "This Report is not intended to address every issue of concern to the People of Buganda in the Kingdoms official presentation to the Uganda Constitutional Review Commission. It is intended to address only the most fundamental issues of concern to Buganda, which are: Federal system of government; Kampala District as part of Buganda; The return of the 9,000 square miles [of land] to the Kingdom of Buganda; The excesses of the Land Act 1998; and The Immunities and privileges of Traditional Leaders." We need to know whether anything in the secret deal points to addressing "the most fundamental issues of concern to Buganda" as Katikkiro put it then? If not, then the Katikkiro must explain himself and apologise for the hurt he has caused for having raised our expectations 2 years ago and then deciding to damp our aspirations by the way side. Not that all of us will forgive him. When Buganda made her demands for federo I expected benefits to come to Buganda and Uganda. Among the immediate changes that would have taken shape in a federal
[Ugnet] Federo deserves thorough debate: The Counterpoint
Compatriots, Ugandans should have access to alternative viewpoints from those who live in federal countries---but the press is not publishing many ofthe clarifications. The New Vision did not publish the following response to Dr. Oloyas article, Federo deserves thorough debate that I posted yesterday. By Joseph Senyonjo New York City, U.S.A. To the Editor, New Vision: Dr. Opiyo Oloya in his piece entitled ' Federo deserves thorough debate' that was published in his New Vision column of 18 August 2004, made a few mistaken statements, assumptions, and deductions. He incorrectly stated that the Fedsnet Federal model is largely based on the writings of James Madison, one of the U.S.A's 'founding fathers'; and implied that the United States federal model unduly shaped our model. (Fedsnet is an internet forum of federalists, mostly in the Diaspora, that has debated the appropriate federal model for Uganda since 2000). Dr. Oloya wrongly attributed our model to the influence of Madison due to the fact that we sent him a copy of a summary our model federal constitution that was delivered in a workshop during the Uganda North American Association's Convention in Boston, in September 2003. In that speech, I quoted Madison to illustrate certain points regarding issues such as two chamber legislatures in federal countries; the relations between the states and the federal government; and the role of state militias. While the U.S. constitution, the worlds oldest and most copied federal constitution, undoubtedly influenced us, our model constitution was a result of careful study of federal constitutions of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. The resulting document [sent to the Constitutional Review Commission (C.R.C)] synthesized the best elements of all these constitutions and modified them, where necessary, to take into account Uganda's unique realities. Contrary to Dr. Oloya's insinuations, the House of Representatives and the Senate legislative model that we recommend for a federal Uganda is not unique to the U.S. federal system. Australia also calls its two federal legislative chambers-- the House of Representatives and the Senate. In Canada, where Dr. Oloya is resident, the two chambers are called the House of Commons and the Senate. In Belgium they are called the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate. In Germany, they are called the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. What is common in all these federal countries, along with others not mentioned, is that one of the chambers represents the people through their local constituencies, while the other represents each of the state's (regions) interests through elected representatives speaking for entire states (regions). Dr. Oloya writes that in the Fedsnet model 'the bottom line is that less power will emanate from the central authority and more from individual distinct states.' This statement is wrong, if by it he means that under our model the regions will be more powerful than the central government. He adds that the situation [that necessitated federalism] in the U.S.A and Canada at the time they federated was entirely different from Uganda's current status quo. This is true. Indeed, before opting for federalism, both the United States and Canada were confederations whereby the states [regions] were largely independent, with almost no power for the central government. Later both countries adopted federal systems that granted more power to the central [federal] government, while retaining significant autonomy for the states. The Ugandan federalists are not calling for a weak central government beholden to the states. Rather they are calling for a re-alignment of jurisdictions that empowers the regions to address issues that affect them locally while retaining a central government capable of enforcing national policy, promoting nationwide development and defending all states from external and internal enemies. Prior to independence, and, particularly before 1900, Uganda, like the American colonies before they federated, was closer to a confederation in that the regions were more or less separate, with little or no central authority; the federalists are not advocating for a confederation. Dr. Oloyas citation of the contrasting U.S. and Canadian experiences strengthens rather than weakens the case for federalism in Uganda. Before federating, each of the European colonies in North America largely decided its own local affairs much like Uganda's pre-colonial regions. On winning their independence from Great Britain, the 13 original states in the U.S.A. chose to form a new loose government uniting them but not at the expense of regional ability to address local peculiarities and needs. Unlike Uganda's regions at independence [and now], the American states initially wanted to retain almost total autonomy for themselves with almost no role for a central government. This arrangement
[Ugnet] Federo deserves thorough debate: The Point , Counterpoint tomorrow
Compatriots, The response to the following article was never printed by New Vision. Fedsnet would like to share that response with you--but because both articles are quite long, the response will be posted tomorrow in its entirety, unedited. FN Lugemwa, Fedsnet Moderator Federo deserves thorough debate CEREMONIAL OR POTENT? Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II A UGANDAN IN CANADA - Opiyo Oloya LAST week, I asked many questions about federo, the proposed plan for a federal Uganda. For instance, what would be the role of the federal authority, and each member of the federation? How would member states relate to the federal government? Will member states act as if they have already seceded from the country, namely be loosely affiliated with the central government? What would be the role of traditional leaders in the new federal state, would it be ceremonial or would it be more potent? And so forth. The proponents of federo were quick to send me many impressive documents they have produced over many years on the subject of a federal Uganda. And while it will take me several weeks to fully digest the voluminous proposed federal constitution and the accompanying papers, here is my preliminary opinion. The proponents of federo have based the bulk of their plan on the A merican model with an elected House of Representatives and the Senate. As well, the President would be a civilian elected directly, and limited to two terms in office of 5 years each.E This, according to the authors would avoid the breeding of dictators who through sheer force or charisma retain power indefinitely. The detailed document further suggests how tax revenues might be shared between the federal government, the 13 states and the local municipalities. As well, there is a very convincing case for equilisation payment to allow the federal authority to allocate funds based on a formula agreed upon through negotiations. In other words, the federal and the 13 states or provinces will have certain powers and will share others. The bottom line though is that less power will emanate from a central authority and more from the individual distinct states. On paper, the federalists have a workable plan that carefully considers the sharing of power, the relationship between the central and state governments, and above all, the development of the individual states within a federal Uganda. It does provide serious food for thought. However, a closer look reveals certain weakness in the plan, and why it will not work in Uganda. Foremost, the federalists used the US Constitution as a model, drawing much of their supporting arguments from the writings of James Madison, one of the architects of America in 1787. Yet, the US constitution was born in a different time in a completely different circumstance Uganda is in now. At the time of Madison, America was made up of lose confederation of independent states that were failing miserably thereby requiring a stronger central authority. The same situation would arise in Canada almost a century later when independent provinces met in 1864 in Charlottetown to try to unite to form a federation. Both the US and Canada would later evolve to have federal systems where the states have some measure of autonomy, but significantly less than what the power they wielded before the federation came into effect. According to the federo plan, the situation should be reversed in Uganda, namely, starting with a strong central government, power should be granted to the 13 constituent states. The overriding assumption here is that once federalism becomes a reality, every member of the federation will remain in the federation rather than striking out on its own as a breakaway state. Either proponents of federo have overlooked the idea of an independent Acholi or Bunyoro or Buganda or we are not being told the whole story. The fact, however, is that when you look closely at the federal map of Uganda as conceived by the architects of federo, borders are defined along ethnic/cultural boundaries. The 13 federal states are therefore Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, Bugishu/Sebei, Bukedi, Bunyoro-Kitara, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, a nd West Nile/Madi. The immediate problem with such a federal structure is that the so-called healthy competitionEtrumpeted as a necessary spark for economic progress in Uganda will develop into serious ethnic rivalries as states fight over allocation of meager resources and seek to expand outwards. For instance, Lake Victoria is drawn as part of Buganda which may seem logical in historical terms, but which may become a very contentious issue in a federal Uganda. The point is simply that the manner with which federo draws the plan based on ethnic groupings secluded from the rest of the country will only fan latent nationalism into real hot fire. To think otherwise is wistful. In some ways, it would be preferable if the federalists were to come flat out in favour
[Ugnet] Rebuttal: Rounds 23----The Monitor Federalism Interview
Note: forwarded message attached. Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo!---BeginMessage--- Listers, Below is my answer tosome comments[right under the answer]a Ugandan, Mr. Obiny,maderegarding theinterview. His critical penhas givenme an opportunity to briefly address a few issues such as districts' powers,and our proposed federal regions that were left outof the interview. To put the answers in context, please read Mr. Obiny's criticism rightunder my response below: Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph Senyonjo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [Adv] The Monitor Federalism Interview To: "Geoffrey Obiny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mr. Obiny, The districts / local government unitswould actually be more powerful, and more autonomousunder federalism. Federalism, despite one of the definitions I quoted, is actually at least athree tier system, and each tier's powers are guaranteed and protected. The regions would act to the districts, as the central government would to the regions. That is, the regional governments would coordinate and mobilize resources to develop infrastructure like inter-district roads, hospitals, schools and other facilities which single districts would be hard-pressed to provide; the central government would have a similar relationship to the regions ensuring thatinter-regional infrastructure such as highwaysa nd telecommunication systems are built and mantained. The districts' powers would be protected from encroachment from either the central government or the regional governments. Their powers would not be taken away because their powers would beassigned rather than delegated as in the current unitary system. The districts representing the geographically-based ethnic groups, would continue to exist and elect their own leaders, but they would now have larger and more powerful regional government centres nearer to them to which they would also elect people to represent their interests.And depending on how parlimentary constituencies are demarcated, they would also have representatives at the national level. So you see, the residents of the districts would have their concerns voiced at three differents levels of government. Fedsnet'sproposed federal regions are: Acholi, Buganda, [Bugisu Sebei], Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Teso, Tooro, and [West Nile Madi]. Within each of the multi-ethnicregions would be various districts to represent the different ethnic groups. Even in pre-colonial Buganda, there were different Ssaza, or counties such as Kooki, Singo,or Buddueach with their own heads; not everything was administered centrallyfrom the regional level. There would have to be a national conference, and regional conferencesto iron out how the people in these regionsdecide to demarcate their districts for effective representation of interests at the regional level. The current districts, even if they were given more political power, are too small, fragmented and economically weak to check on the centre's excesses, and thus cannot help to make it more accountable; throughpowerful federal regions, the districtscould get the central government topay more attention to collective, inter-district regional concerns.And through their elected representatives at the regional levels, local concerns would get hearings which they could not possibly get at the central government level. The other very important issue that the currentdecentralization systemcannot address is the need for some regions not to be fragmented politically, socially and economicallythrough districts answerable to the central government. Theregional imbalances [which continue to exist under the unitary system that is ill-equiped to handle them] would be mitigated by the increased capacity of the regions to attract and promote investments that develop their considerable human and natural resources. In addition, the central government would help bridge the imbalances through equalization funds meant to ensure that all regions meet minimumnational standards. Joseph Geoffrey Obiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joseph, I have seen the interview and must say it was far-reaching. However, it still boils down to how best Uganda can be stablized and developed-either we go through stages or restructure the system of districts which are already there. In the North, beginning to create and rearrange the people into regions is just not worth the try. And I believe the same is true of the east, and West if you can study the saga of Kasese and Mbarara. As they are Districts are good forum of exercising some degree of political power, maybe we should pressure for more powers to the Districts, and as the constitution provides, if some Districts so wish, they can form a Union and negotiate how to share powers within that Union. You know, Joseph the current dynamics is drifting towards reforming and making the centre more accountable and to
[Ugnet] The Monitor Federalism Interview 1of 2
Compatriots, In July of lastof 2004,the Monitor sent interview questions via e-mailto Fedsnet moderators.Mr Joseph Senyonjo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) volunteered to answer the interview questions---and afterwards sent the answers to theMonitor. The interview was never printed despitethe Monitor's repeated promises to do so. After waiting several months, we have decided to share thefederalisminterview with you.In this inteview Mr. SenyonjoarticulatesFedsnet's federalist visionfor Uganda. The Monitor Federalism interview Questions by Mr. Badru Mulumba, formerly, Senior Reporter for the Monitor Newspaper; Answers by Mr. Joseph Senyonjo of Fedsnet, a Federalism Internet Forum What are you going to do to realize federal status for Buganda? Senyonjo: Mr. Mulumba, that is not an appropriate question to ask me. Before I respond let me say this: I am Secretary-General of Fedsnet, an internet forum of Ugandans in the diaspora that was formed in 2000 with the aim of studying the practice of federalism worldwide. We examined many federal constitutions including those of the United States, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, South Africa, Ethiopia, Brazil, and Australia. Our forums mantra from the very beginning was federalism for Uganda. We think the governments and the medias obsession with federalism for Buganda is unfortunate, and not nationalistic. The question should be, what are we doing to realize a federal status for Uganda? First, we have a website, www.federo.com where policy makers can find much of the research, the debates and documents regarding federalism that we have accumulated since 2000. Since the website is concerned with the applicability of federalism in Uganda, we believe it is a great resource for those who want to be informed about federalism and what it would mean for Uganda. Second, we submitted a very comprehensive federalism model to the Constitutional Review Commission that was a result of an exhaustive study of various federal models around the world. We took the best elements from various federal models and tailored them to the Ugandan reality. We also submitted our model to MPs via email, and to the Presidents office. Third, we intend to publish our documents, and to hold a federalism conference in Uganda. Fourth, We are going to do everything possible to reach out to members of parliament and other stakeholders to share with them our rich inventory of information on federalism, and hope that they will consider it from an informed, and educated perspective. Where possible some of our experts that include lawyers, political scientists and academics would be willing to appear before parliament to discuss our model which we think is the most comprehensive ever presented by supporters of federalism for all of Uganda. How viable is your campaign? Senyonjo: We will see. Isnt this a loosing battle? Senyonjo: No it is not a loosing battle. The results of the Odoki commission show that when people nationwide are educated about genuine all Uganda federalism and its benefits for all regions, they are going to embrace it, and demand it. The key is to clear the misconceptions about federalism; one being the tendency of even otherwise educated people to equate federalism with monarchism, and or, feudalism. Federalism has nothing to do with monarchism. A region does not have to have a king to be a federal region. And in our model, even where kings are wanted, they will be non-partisan. How viable is federalism for Uganda? Senyonjo: Federalism is extremely viable for Uganda. Its the only remaining lifeline not only for Uganda, but for many dysfunctional African countries. A number of first-rate African scholars have identified federalism as a means through which ethnic tensions and competition for power at the centre would be defused through the promotion of regional power centres capable of working hand-in-hand with central governments to effect more balanced development. In Uganda, federalism would spread development throughout the nation. Regional towns such as Gulu, Jinja, Lira, Mbale, Kabale, Hoima, Tororo and others would become major centres of administration and industry as each region works hard to create opportunities for its residents. Would you accept federalism where the leaders are elected with the Kabaka remaining a cultural head? Senyonjo:Our position all along which is clearly stated in the document we presented to the Constitutional Review Commission is that all cultural leaders would be non-partisan. The Lukiiko and other regional legislatures would be elected, as would regional governors including the Katikiro. In the case of regions with strong cultural interests, the regional legislatures such as the Lukiiko would have two chambers, the lower house, which would be elected, and the upper house which would represent clans, and some other special representatives. The cultural leaders and the upper house would nominate candidates for
[Ugnet] The Monitor Federalism Interview 2 of 2
The Monitor Federalism Interview If federalism is good why is there a strong anti-federalist wave? Senyonjo: Anti-federalist feelings are clearly based on a misconception of what federalism is. Many even among the elite think that federalism means monarchism, or feudalism. Consequently, I think it is important to define federalism. What is federalism? The American Heritage Dictionary defines federalism as a form of government in which a union of states [or regions] recognizes the sovereignty of a central authority while retaining certain residual powers of government. William Riker, a federalism scholar defines it as an explicitly two-tiered system with some area of autonomy for each level of government and an explicit guarantee of that autonomy. The independent authority of the constituent units distinguishes federalism from the unitary system and the current decentralization system in Uganda in which the lower government units are delegated powers by the central government, which can also take them back. The independent authority of the constituent governance units necessarily means that they have authority to raise a good deal of revenues through major taxes in order to meet their responsibilities. In fact, taxation by the states is such a key feature of federalism that without it you essentially have no federalism. You will note that the definition of federalism says nothing about monarchism, or feudalism. The confusion about federalism in Uganda arose out of the fact that at independence it was the kingdom areas [especially Buganda] which most insisted on a federal system because they wanted to preserve a certain level of self-determination. But a region does not need to have, or recognize, a king in order to have federal powers. Can the type of federalism Buganda is advocating for work after failing in the 1960s? Arent we recreating historical problems? Senyonjo: I do not speak for Buganda, but my understanding is that Buganda is asking for federalism for all Ugandas regions. This was not the case in the 1960s. Federalism can only fail and cause problems, if it is half-baked semi-federalism as in the 1960s, that is when it is only for some, leading to cries of special status, and thus envy, and perhaps, hatred. Genuine federalism for all Ugandans would heal our historical problems and set Uganda on a path for lasting stability and prosperity. A view gaining currency is that African countries are too small; they are better off thinking Pan Africanism (federation on an African scale). Isnt federalism a step back? Senyonjo: That view is mistaken and is uninformed. The truth is that many African countries such as the Congo, the Sudan, Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are rather large by world standards. Many are larger in size than Europes economic giants such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Asias Japan. And Nigeria, for instance, has a larger population than any European country; at around 130 million, its population is now greater than that of Japan, the country with the worlds second largest economy, at almost $5 trillion. Further, the European Union (E.U) includes a number of federal countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Belgium [where the E.U capital is located]. Clearly internal federal arrangements within the member countries are not mutually exclusive with larger regional federations; that is, you can have both at the same time. Moreover, federalism has nothing to do with size. Switzerland, and Belgium which President Museveni is fond of pointing out as having a larger GDP than all of Sub-Saharan Africa, are both much smaller than Uganda, in fact they are both quite a bit smaller than Buganda alone, yet they both have federal systems, and their federal regions are based on ethnicity and language. Thus African countries problem is not a lack of size but a rather a lack of internal cohesion due to a failure by Africans to devise political systems that take into account the realities of African peoples geographical and social organization that preceded the coming of the colonialists. Isnt this duplication of resourcesArmy, Police, Social services etc. for such a poor country? Senyonjo: There would be minimal duplication because under federalism local governments administer social services and policing. The army would be a national force; the regions would only have small, non-fulltime reserve forces to help in times of emergencies, and to supplement the army in times of war. The Federal (central) government would set national standards, and acts as a coordinating funding agency for Social Services nationwide. There would also be a national police investigative agency similar to the FBI in the United States, or the Scotland Yard, in the United Kingdom, to assist in investigating crimes and apprehending criminals when needed. Is there a win-win scenario for the two warring parties in this case? Senyonjo: Which warring
[Ugnet] An all-inclusive federo system would be a great help!
Musamize, You make astrongcase forself-determination. With the an inclusive-federo system in place, "okutiitiibya!" Buganda wouldnot be necessary. Gtr, ttyl, and stay away from the rough weather. FN Lugemwamusamize ssemakula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr Lugemwa: Buganda is the 'favorite child'? My, oh my! IMHO, with friends like the Movement, Buganda hardly needs enemies. Lets see: As a group, the Baganda are now poorer than they were in 1950. Baganda are not allowed to own land outside of Buganda. Within Buganda, the Movement is making concerted efforts to make the Baganda landless. At least one government official has openly incited other Ugandan to grab machetes and hack down any Baganda they happen on. Museveni is moving hean and earth trying to dismantle the Kingdom of Buganda,witness his actions and utterances in places likeBuruli. have someone read and interprete the Land Act -- and its subsequent ammendments. Scan recent headlines and see what Museveni and his Movement are planning and enacting for Buganda. Look at who hold what topjob in the civil service and the UPDF. Some favorite child Buganda is indeed. What an irony! Lugemwa FN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Basoga are complaining that the Movement is not doing enough for Kyabazinga. Buganda is the 'favorite child' whileKyabazinga and Busogaare forgotten! FN Lugemwa Muvumenti esuuliridde Kyabazinga Bya Muwanga Kakooza ABASOGA beemulugunyizza nti gavumenti eyitiridde okutiitiibya Buganda ne yeerabira Kyabazinga waabwe ne Busoga. "Kino kiyinza okukendeeza obuwagizi bwa Muvumenti mu kitundu kyaffe," bwe baalabudde. Mu kiseera kino mmotoka ya Kyabazinga teriiko mipiira, Olubiri lwe ssi luddaabirize. Busoga yeerabiddwa nnyo gavumenti ng'ogeraganyizza ne Buganda," bwatyo omubaka Frank Nabwiso (Kagoma) akulembedde okwemulugunya kuno, bwe yagambye. Yabadde ayise bannamawulire ku palamenti okubategeeza ku bbaluwa gye yawandiikidde minisita w'ebyamateeka Jannat Mukwa-ya nga yeemulugunya ku Busoga obutabaayo mulamuzi wa kkooti nkulu wa nkalakkalira kye yagambye nti kireetedde emisango naddala egy'obuliisamaanyi okwetuuma mu kkooti. Yawadde eky'okulabirako nti e Busoga ne Mukono waliyo emisango 680 egy'obuliisamaanyi egitanawozesebwa ng'ate e Mbale waliyo 70 . Published on: Friday, 7th January, 2005 FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?The all-new My Yahoo! Get yours free! Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FedsNet/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] The outrageous lies uttered by John Nagenda on BBC World service
UN urges end to Ugandan 'horror' **The UN urges an end to the war in northern Uganda, where thousands of children are caught up in the fighting.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/3943677.stm FNL Simon Nume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matek M7 always panicks whenever outsiders want to investigate 'Kony'. He flew to London in June to make sure that theInternational Criminal Court only investigates LRA and NOT UPDF as had been suggested. When the US army asked for a list of known Kony financial backers that Bantanzira went ballistic saying that this was interefering in Uganda's internal business. You have to understandWHY Naggenda objects to the war in Northern Uganda being classified as the most neglegted terrible human crisis ever. You see if the UN does classify it as such, it then begs the question WHY M7 did not alert the world about the extent of this war for 18 years. Further analysiswouldreveal the truth about who 'Kony' reallyis. All efforts should bedoubled to make sure that the UN classifies the war in the North as the worst neglected tragedyit is. BTW have you noticed how Naggenda let slip of therumour that US satellites are used in Uganda to guard M7? "now that we have very good intelligence from some friends, ( presumable some supper power) we are now able to deal with KONY. and the war will soon come to an end." What these clown do not realise is that the US has probably NOW got proof that there are no 'Kony' troop movements andmay turn this info against M7 one day. He should ask Noriega, The Shah Of Iranet al the noose is tightening. Nume Matek Opoko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Citizens: I thought I would sharethis with you. About ten Minutes ago on the BBC World News Service and in reaction to the UN move, before members of the United Nations security council, to label the War in Northern Uganda as the most terrible neglected Humanitarian crises in the world, John Nagenda was asked a series of question by the BBC news Announcer. The firstquestion was: MrJohn Nagenda what is your reaction to this latest UN move? To which Nagenda reply: This is very unfortunate. why would the UN express concerned about the people in Northern Uganda now that the war in Northern Uganda is winding down.. we have this people..the "Konyrebels" surrendering in large number. Now fellow citizens, ifKony" has thousands under arms ( nobody really knows how many people "KONY" has under arms since Museveni Army intelligence is hopeless inaccurate) Is it sensible to ASSUME that becausea "few Rebels" have surrender, therefore the war is coming to and end? Apparently this seems to be the logic of the John Nagenda and the NRM military dictatorship. Not to be outsmart, the BBC fellow pressed John Nagenda further.. But MR. John Nagenda, the announcer asked, don't you think the UN has genuine concern after all the war in Northern Uganda has now been fought for 19 years.. and the "Government" of Uganda , it does seem, has failed to protect the people of Uganda.. John replied.. you see we have 3,000 mile border with Sudan.. Kony has been sneaking in from Sudan to cause Havoc over here in Uganda..now that we have very good intelligence from some friends, ( presumable some supper power) we are now able to deal with KONY. and the war will soon come to an end. The BBC guy couldn't relent, he asked Again.. so when do you think this war will end. to which John stated.. 10 weeks.. You mean in 10 weeks your "Government" will bring to an end a war which has taken 20 years fight John , with dry mouth, said Yes .. in 10 weeks the war will be brought to and end. .and now fellow citizens, we are waiting for Yoweri Museveni's NRM Military dictatorship to end the war in Northern Uganda in ten weeks.. at least that is the commitment we got from NRM spokesman John Nagenda ..and John made the commitment before Members of the United Nations Security Council and the world wide BBC listeners this 22 day of October 2004. I suggest that if on the eleventh week Museveni and his NRM cannot bring the war in Northern Uganda to an end, NRM-O should cease to exist; Ugandans should do away with this incompetent organization which has brought nothing but a lot of suffering to the people of Northern Uganda. fair compromise I reckon!! Matek Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___Ugandanet mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___Ugandanet mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Ugnet] Traditional medicine
Bringing traditional cures into Uganda's health system Jars of seeds and tree bark used in African traditional medicine15 October 2004Source: The Christian Science Monitor In September 2004, the Ugandan government began to integrate traditional medicine in the national health system by setting up a commission to develop standards and decide which practices should be authorised. Uganda is also one of the first African nations to include traditional healing in its schools' national curriculum. In this article, Federica Bianchi explores the reasons why many African countries, are, like Uganda, making moves to institutionalise traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is often cheaper and easier to access than modern treatments. In Uganda, there is one doctor for every 18,000 people, but one traditional healer for every 150. But some practices such as drawing out 'bad blood' are dangerous, and are likely to be regulated against when the government develops its legal framework for traditional medicine. Link to full article in The Christian Science Monitor FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] Organize federalism conference, Museveni advised
Monitor Letters September 16, 2004 http://www.monitor.co.ug/letters/index.php Hold national conference on federalism President Yoweri Museveni is about to lose an opportunity to address and settle the federalism question once and for all. If the President had any interest in this matter he would have organised a national conference to discuss the issue with all stakeholders instead of wasting Mengos time. The focus of such a conference would be to devise modalities for the devolution of power to, and defining the duties and responsibilities of regional leaders, identifying key projects and drawing up a time-table for successful transition to such a system. Those discussions would be centred on genuine federalism whereby decentralised units would have autonomy and the attendant political and economic muscle in forms of powers and administrative tasks in such areas as raising revenue. Unfortunately, the President is using divide and rule tactics to isolate Mengo. Fulgentius Lugemwa,Via email. - Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] unaanet : One nation ......
Other regions are not Bugandas concern! ONLY BUGANDA: Sam Mutabazi SIR For quite sometime, several people have expressed opinions against Bugandas proposals, especially on federo (federalism). Sam Stewart Mutabazi in the guest writers column of your August 24 edition, page 11, makes a number of arguments. Firstly, he says although federo will uplift Buganda, only Buganda will gain from this type of governance while the rest of Uganda has everything to lose. Secondly, he argues that the federo agitators in Buganda are not nationalistic because they dont explain its effect on the rest of Uganda. I wish to emphasize that Uganda is not a nation and nationalism should not be seen in Ugandas context only but in the context of the nations that make up the state of Uganda. When Baganda urge for federo, they are fighting for their nation, Buganda. How federo affects the other regions (Mutabazi seems to suggest economic effect), is not the responsibility of Baganda but of the people s of these other regions. All regions should strive to uplift themselves, and the earlier they realise this, the better. Thirdly, Mutabazi argues that federo cant ensure that resources flow from richer Buganda to poorer regions. Now, does Buganda owe these other regions a living? What right do the poor regions so-called have to milk Buganda for their own development? Fourthly, Mutabazi says Mengo is not explaining the role it wants the Kabaka to play under federo. In my view, the Baganda know the role they want the Kabaka to play. Non-Baganda like Mutabazi should not be bothered because the Kabaka will never have power in their regions save only in Buganda. When I read opinions like those of Mutabazi and many more, I come to the conclusion that all other regions want to be parasites on Buganda and that Buganda should be milked in order to develop other regions. That is the main cause of the hatred towards Buganda. The scenario is not sustainable, a t least in the long term. Salongo Emmanuel Muwanga Ndejje - Kyaddondo Wakiso District Published on: Saturday, 4th September, 2004 -- Lugemwafn Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!___ Ugandanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
ugnet_: Banana disease linked to 'third term'!
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ugnet_: Half -and-half
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ugnet_: Reality check!
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith. ---And that must be one reason why Museveni, who lectures and offers wisdom on every topic under the sun, has never committed chalk and time to explain to his peasants how federalism works. If he did, they would probably be wiser on the holes in the blend of his philosophy of bigger regional blocks, his dismissal of federalist aspirations and his fragmentation of the country into unviable postage stamp-sized districts. For now, their ignorance is his strength, especially if they are encouraged to confuse federalism with monarchism, and to increase the tint of ethnic and tribal sentiments in their attitude instead of emphasizing developmental concerns. This ignorance has even become respectable. It would be fine to be opposed to the system, but a good number of our legislators now actually claim to be too potato-brained to understand the main features of federalism! Before they built their mansions in Kampala, the NRA/M lords used to mock their predecessors as primitive. And yet these new brilliant men and women cannot see beyond Bugandas dated glory songs, nor beyond their obsession with the charms of this little metropolis called Kampala, with its car-jammed winding tracks masquerading as streets. They cannot visualize the emergence of new centers; new institutions of learning, research, industry and health care powered by the engines of federalism, tapping the huge reserve of human potential out there; the growth of new cities; cities which would make posterity wonder what the fuss about Muteesa Is dusty town was all about. And they cant see in that distance because they are totally self-regarding. They are now very rich, but in spirit they are hand-to-mouth gatherers and predators. They cannot invest their faith in communities and cities that would reach their splendour after they are dead or have left power.--Alan Tacca FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now.
ugnet_: Federo and Battle for KLA!
Battle for Kampala ragesBy Joshua KatoThis is mid-day robbery. Me, as a Muganda, I cannot blindly support this. Kampala is part of Buganda and nothing can change that, Steven Lubwama, a regular radio talk-show contributor shouted.According to Mengos proposals to the CRC, they requested that Kampala should be among the districts that make up the region of Buganda.Charles Peter Mayega, the Mengo information minister, says, Kabaka Muteesa founded Kampala in 1874. This city developed because it was the Kabakas capital in the first place. He adds This is a geographical fact. Kampala district is not conceptual. It is a physical piece of land.Nsubuga Nsambu, a veteran federal advocate, says, Kampala was not developed by foreigners, but by us the Baganda. We know that most of the roads in the city today were constructed by the Kabaka.Historically though, Kampala develope d mainly because the colonialists made it the centre of business.Cabinet recommended that parliament makes a law providing for the special status. This is a step forward from the 1995 Constitution which does not in anyway mention Kampala as being in Buganda.This means that even if the Baganda were to create a regional cooperation among the districts, Kampala cannot be part of that regional set up.According to Nsambu, the struggle for Kampala has been on-going through the years.Buganda first lost Kampala prior to independence. According to Article 122 of the 1962 Constitution, Kampala was placed outside the control of the Buganda kingdom. The 1962 Constitution had given Buganda 50% of all taxes collected from fuel sold in and around the city.This was supposed to be a compromise, but it angered the then President Milton Obote, Nsambu says. In 1964, Obote stopped this practice, but met resistance from the Baganda.They argued that if this was to stop, then Kampala would become an integral part of Buganda. In 1966, Obote attacked the Lubiri after Mengo had ordered him to transfer his government from Buganda soil. In 1967, Obote made a new Constitution, which made Uganda a republic and automatically repealed the tax article.The Baganda continued with their agitation for federo and Kampala throughout the Amin regime, Nsambu says.When Amin returned the body of Sir Edward Muteesa, the Baganda asked for more. However, Amin asked them to be happy with what he had done for them. Delegations of Bataka who had frequented Amin stopped, especially after he became an open tyrant.When Museveni went to the bush in 1981, federo and Kampala demands resurfaced. Groups of Baganda hinged their support to Museveni on returning the Kabaka, federo and solving the Kampala question.The issue was discussed extensively in the bush, culminating into a personal visit to the bush by prince Ronald Muwenda Mutebi in 1985. We were assured by the President that Buganda was to get federo, says Abdul Nadduli, a veteran and a fanatical federal agitator.However, there was no signed agreement to ferment it. It came up during the CA deliberations. But we were taken aside and told that we should forget Kampala, says Nsambu.Observers think that what the Baganda want is Constitutional recognition that Kampala is part of Buganda. But this is just a first step. The second step is that after this recognition, the Baganda will then ask for benefits from what is theirs. For example, they can start asking for part of the taxes collected from Kampala.Elijah Mushemeza, a Makerere University Political Science lecturer and former CA delegate says the Mengo demand has been consistent since the CA.However, he adds that the reasons given by Mengo are not convincing. They say Kampala is geographically located in Buganda region, so it should be part of Buganda. This reason is not convincing enough to me, he says.There is also the option of having an area of Mengo in which the Bulange and the Lubiri are located cut off from Kampala and turned into a municipality, say of Wakiso district. Under such a set up, Buganda shall have its key entities together. We certainly can go to parliament and convince them to do it, says Aisha Kabanda, an official in the office of the President.Nsambu says such a proposal is an insult to the Baganda. It should be us the owners to decide what to give them, not them to decide, he says.Mwambutsya Ndebesa, a Makerere University don says the main reason Buganda wants to have Kampala is emotional. The Baganda think that they are deprived of their right.Some of them think that if the Government says Kampala is not in Buganda, then it implies that Kampala has been taken over by Ankole, he says. He adds On the other hand, the Government feels that if Kampala is given back to Buganda, the next thing the Baganda will demand is part of the taxes collected from Kampala.Very few capital cities in the world fall under the control of federal or regional governments.In most federal or regional units, the seat of the central government is not under any
ugnet_: Which blacks take those spots?
Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?June 24, 2004 By SARA RIMER and KAREN W. ARENSONCAMBRIDGE, Mass. - At the most recent reunion of HarvardUniversity's black alumni, there was lots of pleased talkabout the increase in the number of black students atHarvard.But the celebratory mood was broken in one forum, when somespeakers brought up the thorny issue of exactly who thoseblack students were.While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard'sundergraduates are black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard lawprofessor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman ofHarvard's African and African-American studies department,pointed out that the majority of them - perhaps as many astwo-thirds - are West Indian and African immigrants ortheir children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracialcouples.They said that only about a third of the students were fromfamilies in which all four grandparents were born in thiscountry, descendants of slaves. Many argue that it wasstudents like these, disadvantaged by the legacy of JimCrow laws, segregation and decades of racism, poverty andinferior schools, who were intended as principalbeneficiaries of affirmative action in universityadmissions.What concerned the two professors, they said, was that inthe high-stakes world of admissions to the most selectivecolleges - and with it, entry into the country's innercircles of power, wealth and influence - African-Americanstudents whose families have been in America forgenerations were being left behind."I just want people to be honest enough to talk about it,"Professor Gates, the Yale-educated son of a West Virginiapaper-mill worker, said recently, reiterating the questionshe has been raising since the black alumni weekend lastfall. "What are the implications of this?"Both Professor Gates and Professor Guinier emphasize thatthis is not about excluding immigrants, whom sociologistsdescribe as a highly motivated, self-selected group.Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the United Statespopulation, are still underrepresented at Harvard and otherselective colleges, they said.The conversation that bubbled up that weekend has continuedacross campus here and beyond as these professors andothers publicly raise painful and complicated questionsabout race and class in America and how they play out inelite university admissions, issues that some educators andblack admissions officers have privately talked about forsome time.There is no consensus on the answers, and the absence ofhard data - most institutions say they do not look into theorigins of their black students - makes the discussion evenmore difficult.Some educators, including the president of Harvard,Lawrence H. Summers, declined to comment on the issue;others are divided.The president of Amherst College, Anthony W. Marx, saysthat colleges should care about the ethnicity of blackstudents because in overlooking those with predominantlyAmerican roots, schools are missing an "opportunity tocorrect a past injustice" and depriving their campuses "ofvoices that are particular to being African-American, withall the historical disadvantages that that entails."But others say there is no reason to take the ancestry ofblack students into account."I don't think it should matter for purposes of admissionsin higher education," said Lee C. Bollinger, the presidentof Columbia University, who as president of the Universityof Michigan fiercely defended its use of affirmativeaction. "The issue is not origin, but social practices. Itmatters in American society whether you grow up black orwhite. It's that differential effect that really is thebasis for affirmative action."Professors Gates and Guinier cite various sources for theirfigures on Harvard's black students, includingconversations with students, a recent Harvard undergraduatehonors thesis based on extensive student interviews, andthe "Black Guide to Life at Harvard," which surveyed 70percent of the black undergraduates and was published lastyear by the Harvard Black Students Association.Researchers at Princeton University and the University ofPennsylvania who have been studying the achievement ofminority students at 28 selective colleges and universities(theirs, as well as Yale, Columbia, Duke and the Universityof California at Berkeley), found that 41 percent of theblack students identified themselves as immigrants, aschildren of immigrants or as mixed race.Dou glas S. Massey, a Princeton sociology professor who wasone of the researchers, said the black students fromimmigrant families and the mixed-race students representeda larger proportion of the black students than that in theblack population in the United States generally. Andrew A.Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College, says that among18- to 25-year-old blacks nationwide, about 9 percentdescribe themselves as of African or West Indian ancestry.Like the Gates and Guinier numbers, these tallies do notinclude foreign students.In the 40 or so years since affirmative action began inhigher
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OF COURSE!!! FN Lugemwa --- Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G8 SUMMIT: LOCATION AND SECURITY 1 Access to Sea Island restricted to G8 delegates and local residents 2 All traffic on Torras Causeway monitored at checkpoints 3 Boating restrictions in place in some areas around Sea Island 4 G8 delegates not staying on Sea Island are staying in Savannah. Armed coastguards, National Guard troops and helicopters on patrol There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Impact Malaria Scholarships
Impact Malaria Scholarships http://www.scidev.net/grants/index.cfm?fuseaction=readgrantsitemid=174language=1 Organisation: Impact MalariaClosing date: 15 July 2004 FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: Public statements: VP / Kabwegyere
Let peasants decide!FN Lugemwa 1. Graduated tax will be suspended for a 10-year period. --VP 2. G/tax to stay, says Kabwegyere By Raynel Kanyambu May 21, 2004 KANUNGU Graduated tax is to stay, the Minister of Local Government has said. He said the Government will change the form of levying and mode of collection, but it will not be scrapped. He was speaking at a district dialogue on the community based monitoring and evaluation, organised by the Uganda Debt Network at Katungu. Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere said recently the Government had started carrying out studies on how they can transform graduated tax so as to be paid with ease, and without causing commotion among the taxpayers. The biggest problem was the politicians from Reform Agenda and some from government officials who thought the best way to capture state power was when graduated tax is scrapped. Let them forget! The Government cannot fail to ran its business due to lack of money. Every person shall pay either as graduated tax or other form of tax, Kabwegyere said.--Graduated tax will be suspended for a 10-year period. BY VISION REPORTER Graduated tax will be suspended for a 10-year period, starting next financial year 2005/2006, the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, told local government leaders yesterday. Local governments will, therefore, continue collecting the tax from bonafide taxpayers until July 2005 when the proposal is to be implemented, the Vice Presidents office said yesterday. Bukenya met with district chairpersons and mayors at his Kakiri home on Thursday and said the suspension was aimed at mobilising households to increase production so that they are taxed equitably in future. For this year, local councils will collect the tax to be able to carry out their planned activities while government sorts out the modalities of implementing the proposal. But it should also be understood that the tax has not been abolished. It is only being suspended for that specified period, Bukenya said. During the next 10 years therefore, we need to m obilise our people to raise a minimum income of at least sh10m in each household so that in future when the tax is re-instated they are equitably taxed, he added. He emphasised that the tax was only being suspended, rather than being abolished, and urged local leaders to identify avenues through which people will be empowered to improve household incomes. Uganda Local Authorities Association chairman Capt. John Emily Otekat, who is also the Soroti LC5 chairman, raised concerns that the suspension of the tax would affect district incomes. Graduated tax forms 80% of revenue for local councils and brings in about sh70b a year for local governments in the entire country. If suspended, activities of local governments are going to be drastically affected unless the Government comes up with a viable way of filling the gap, Otekat said. Published on: Saturday, 8th May, 2004 Email this article to a friend. = Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70/year
ugnet_: Federalism for all areas
Federo for all areas.IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES! FN Lugemwa Cabinet split on third term By David Kibirige May 16, 2004 KAMPALA- Ministers are divided over the proposal to give President Yoweri Museveni a third term, information filtering in from three days of cabinet meetings reveals. Mr Museveni has since Wednesday been chairing a special cabinet meeting to chart out the way forward after the expiry of his constitutional term in 2006. The meeting, which was supposed to end on Friday, has been extended up to Tuesday to allow more discussion and consensus. The Minister of Information James Nsaba Buturo confirmed that they would be sitting up to Tuesday. The meetings have been detailed and a lot of issues discussed. There were protracted discussions but it has been decided that there will be other meetings on Monday and Tuesday after which a statement will be issued, said Buturo without going into details. A source told Sunday Monitor that some ministers led by a professor argued that it would be better not to amend the constitution while others said it would be better to coerce parliament to give Museveni four more years after 2006. They argued this would save Shs 30 billion planned for the referendum to decide whether the constitution should be amended to let Museveni rule for a third term which many have termed as presidency for life. Some two ministers who before joining the Movement belonged to the Democratic Party are said to have openly told the president that it is in his own interest that he respects the 1995 constitution and peacefully hands over power. The meetings were reportedly very heated. Another contentious issue was granting Buganda a federal (federo) system of government. Musevenis aides headed by Fox Odoi have come up with a federal structure for Buganda, which was presented to the cabinet. Some cabinet ministers are said to have opposed granting Buganda a federal status. They said this arrangement should be for all areas. Museveni is said to have told them that personally, he would like to see Buganda granted federo. He told the cabinet members to think about it until next week. Minister Buturo confirmed that the meeting ended before resolving the federo issue. Definitely the federal issue was a hot one and there is no doubt the meeting ended there. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Does Museveniunderstand thefedero he is talking about? FNL Do you Yahoo!?SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
ugnet_: Federalism will unlock Uganda's potential
Federalism for all. IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES! Paint a picture of the future. http://flagspot.net/flags/ug.html Tolearn more visit www.federo.com http://successisthekey.tripod.com/ FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
ugnet_: Old science news!
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES: EUREKA! Scientists find an unexpected new source of stemcells.Baby teeth may be far more valuable than parentsimagined: Scientists have discovered theyrechock-full of stem cells, those seemingly magicalprocessors of heart, nerve and most other cell types. The find means parents may someday encourage kids toput their baby teeth into protective storagenot undera pillowfor future treatment of injuries anddiseases, says Songtao Shi of the National Instituteof Dental and Craniofacial research, who led theresearch.It may also give scientists a much needed alternativesource for stem cells, which are mostly harvested fromembryosa process that has come under intensivescrutiny from anti-abortion groups. So far,researchers have been able to coax baby-teeth-derivedstem cells into nerve, bone and tooth-forming cells,and Shi says the cells may someday make it possible togrow new bones or to treat nerve-related diseases likeAlzheimers.Shi, a pediatric dentist by training, says it allstarted when his daughter, Julia, lost her firsttooth. When holding the tiny incistor in his hand,Shi suddenly spied a speck of scarlet tissue nestleddeep inside. He thought it might be pulp tissue,which is choked with blood vessels and nerves thatkeep the bone healthy. In adults, the pulp is alsowhere stem cells are known to hide. So when Juliasnext tooth popped out, Shi hustled it to his lab,where a closer look revealed several stem cells amidthe tissue.Pamela DenBesten, a stem cell researcher at theUniversity of California at San Francisco, calls thediscovery potentially significant. This could put thetooth fairy out of business," she says. Michael Stroh, Popular Science. -- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2'
ugnet_: SARS 'may be spread by sweat'
The SARS virusMike Shanahan10 May 2004Source: SciDev.Net Chinese scientists have shown that the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may be able to spread more easily and in more ways than previously thought. Research carried out at Guangzhou's First Military Medical University suggests that SARS might transfer from person to person via urine, faeces and even sweat and not just by coughs and sneezes. "As a result, we recommend new infection control measures which include getting patients to wear gloves, disposable gowns, and eye protection, in addition to [face] masks, and to avoid kissing or touching other people," says lead researcher Yanqing Ding. Using a marker that binds to the SARS virus, Ding's team found the virus in many tissues including the small intestine, kidney, lungs, stomach and sweat glands extracted from three patients killed by the disease. Their results are reported in the July 2004 issue of the Journal of Pathology. The presence of SARS virus in kidneys and the intestinal tract suggest that urine and faeces may play a role in transmitting the disease and that SARS could also be spread by contaminated sewage or food. The findings follow a new outbreak of SARS in China in which five people have been infected and one has died. The outbreak has been traced to Beijing's National Institute of Virology, which was studying the SARS virus. In 2003, the syndrome killed nearly 800 people, mostly in Southeast Asia. Link to abstract of full paper byYanging Ding et al in the Journal of Pathology SARS 'may be spread by sweat' The SARS virusMike Shanahan10 May 2004Source: SciDev.Net Chinese scientists have shown that the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may be able to spread more easily and in more ways than previously thought. Research carried out at Guangzhou's First Military Medical University suggests that SARS might transfer from person to person via urine, faeces and even sweat and not just by coughs and sneezes. "As a result, we recommend new infection control measures which include getting patients to wear gloves, disposable gowns, and eye protection, in addition to [face] masks, and to avoid kissing or touching other people," says lead researcher Yanqing Ding. Using a marker that binds to the SARS virus, Ding's team found the virus in many tissues including the small intestine, kidney, lungs, stomach and sweat glands extracted from three patients killed by the disease. Their results are reported in the July 2004 issue of the Journal of Pathology. The presence of SARS virus in kidneys and the intestinal tract suggest that urine and faeces may play a role in transmitting the disease and that SARS could also be spread by contaminated sewage or food. The findings follow a new outbreak of SARS in China in which five people have been infected and one has died. The outbreak has been traced to Beijing's National Institute of Virology, which was studying the SARS virus. In 2003, the syndrome killed nearly 800 people, mostly in Southeast Asia. Link to abstract of full paper byYanging Ding et al in the Journal of Pathology Related SciDev.Net articles: Foxes and cats 'can carry SARS virus'New findings give SARS vaccine hope Related SciDev.Net articles: Foxes and cats 'can carry SARS virus'New findings give SARS vaccine hope Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
Re: ugnet_: Move Over Stem Cell Research: Wellcome Programmable Living Machines!
Thank you, Mr. Ssemakula, Synthetic biology is actually synthetic chemystery! I am a result of chemisty with a little biology! FN Lugemwa J Ssemakula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Image: BRYAN CHRISTIE DESIGN REDESIGNED VIRUSES will help biologists learn how to build reliable genetic machines. A group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reorganized the genome of the T7 bacteriophage drawn here. SIDEBAR April 26, 2004 Synthetic Life: Overview/Synthetic Biology By W. Wayt Gibbs Molecular biology has been largely a reductive science that deduces the operation of living systems by breaking them apart. A growing number of synthetic biologists are taking a different approach: building machines from interchangeable DNA parts. The devices work inside living cells, from which they derive energy, raw materials, and the ability to move and reproduce. Synthetic biology has already produced microbes with a variety of unnatural talents. Some produce complex chemical ingredients for drugs; others make artificial amino acids, remove heavy metals from wastewater or perform simple binary logic. Image: SAM ODGEN DREW ENDY (pictured) and others at M.I.T. have designed and built more than 140 BioBricks (in vials). Each is a piece of DNA that performs a well-characterized function and interacts well with other genetic parts April 26, 2004 Synthetic Life Biologists are crafting libraries of interchangeable DNA parts and assembling them inside microbes to create programmable, living machines By W. Wayt Gibbs Evolution is a wellspring of creativity; 3.6 billion years of mutation and competition have endowed living things with an impressive range of useful skills. But there is still plenty of room for improvement. Certain microbes can digest the explosive and carcinogenic chemical TNT, for example--but wouldn't it be handy if they glowed as they did so, highlighting the location of buried land mines or contaminated soil? Wormwood shrubs generate a potent medicine against malaria but only in trace quantities that are expensive to extract. How many millions of lives could be saved if the compound, artemisinin, could instead be synthesized cheaply by vats of bacteria? And although many cancer researchers would trade their eyeteeth for a cell with a built-in, easy-to-read counter that ticks over reliably each time it divides, nature apparently has not deemed such a thing fit enough to survive in the wild. It may seem a simple matter of genetic engineering to rewire cells to glow in the presence of a particular toxin, to manufacture an intricate drug, or to keep track of the cells' age. But creating such biological devices is far from easy. Biologists have been transplanting genes from one species to another for 30 years, yet genetic engineering is still more of a craft than a mature engineering discipline. Say I want to modify a plant so that it changes color in the presence of TNT, posits Drew Endy, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I can start tweaking genetic pathways in the plant to do that, and if I am lucky, then after a year or two I may get a 'device'--one system. But doing that once doesn't help me build a cell that swims around and eats plaque from artery walls. It doesn't help me grow a little microlens. Basically the current practice produces pieces of art. - Living machines reproduce, but as they do, they mutate. - Endy is one of a small but rapidly growing number of scientists who have set out in recent years to buttress the foundation of genetic engineering with what they call synthetic biology. They are designing and building living systems that behave in predictable ways, that use interchangeable parts, and in some cases that operate with an expanded genetic code, which allows them to do things that no natural organism can. This nascent field has three major goals: One, learn about life by building it, rather than by tearing it apart. Two, make genetic engineering worthy of its name--a discipline that continuously improves by standardizing its previous creations and recombining them to make new and more sophisticated systems. And three, stretch the boundaries of life and of machines until the two overlap to yield truly programmable organisms. Already TNT-detecting and artemisinin-producing microbes seem within reach. The current prototypes are relatively primitive, but the vision is undeniably grand: think of it as Life, version 2.0. A Light Blinks On The roots of synthetic biology extend back 15 years to pioneering work by Steven A. Benner and Peter G. Schultz. In 1989 Benner led a team at ETH Zurich that created DNA containing two artificial genetic letters in addition to the four that appear in life as we know it. He and others have since invented several varieties of artificially enhanced DNA. So far no one
ugnet_: Another UPDF Pay Clerk disappears with Shs. 29m
Mw. Kironde. How about things we know but have forgotten? FN Lugemwa Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will not be surprised if one day someone in the Bank of Uganda disappears with whatever is kept in the treasury. There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns." Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul NjokiSent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:29 PMTo: DP-Net; UgandanetSubject: ugnet_: Another UPDF Pay Clerk disappears with Shs. 29m Another UPDF Pay Clerk disappears with Shs. 29m By Onno Columbus Monday, 10 May 2004 A UPDF Pay Clerk of the 49th Battalion has disappeared with cash over 29 million shillings. Geoffrey Odong, the Pay Clerk of the 49th Battalion now based in Romoromo at the Uganda Sudan border, reportedly stole the money, which was meant for the soldiers January salary. UPDF Northern Spokesman Lt. Paddy Ankunda confirmed the Pay Clerks disappearance. \\\"Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else.\" Njoki Paul University of Pretoria This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Malaria control 'needs united approach'
Malaria control 'needs united approach' 7 May 2004Source: Nature Science Update Efforts against malaria are failing, and the situation calls for a new united approach against the disease, leading scientists have warned. Writing in this week's British Medical Journal, David Molyneux, a disease expert at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and Vinand Nantulya, an advisor to the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, argue that combining anti-malaria initiatives with other disease-control programmes such as vaccinations and mass de-worming could be an effective strategy for meeting targets set by the Roll Back Malaria programme and the 2002 meeting of African heads of state in Abuja. The tools for malaria control insecticides, bed nets and effective drugs exist, but their distribution is inadequate, they say. Linking their delivery to other health campaigns can greatly improve speed and extent of coverage, as recent joint mosquito net and measles vaccine distributions in Ghana and Zambia have shown. Link to full news story in Nature Science Update Link to the full paper in the British Medical Journal Related SciDev.Net articles: Weak leadership threatens anti-malaria driveRoll Back Malaria risks rolling overRelated links: World Heath Organisation Roll Back Malaria programme- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Cool chemystery. Hydrogen bonding at work!
Tiny robot walker made from DNA The tiny robots are made from the building blocks of lifeScientists have created a microscopic walking robot using only the building blocks of life: DNA. The tiny walker is only 10 nanometres long and has been described as a major step forward in nanotechnology. A New York University team created the robot using DNA legs that move along a footpath, which is also based on DNA. The legs move by detaching themselves from the footpath, moving along it and then reattaching themselves, New Scientist reports. DNA is an ideal material to build the robot from, because DNA chains easily pair up. By re-ordering the sequence of base pairs that make up the DNA strand, the scientists were able to control where each strand attached. "What we've done is to build a sidewalk to accommodate one step and we've demonstrated quantitatively that [the robot] can take a second step," Professor Nadrian Seeman of New York University told BBC News Online. Leg work Each leg of the biped is made from two strands of DNA paired up as a double helix. These legs are connected by flexible "linker" strands of DNA. Each leg of the biped has a portion at its end which is single-stranded. The scientists refer to this as a foot, and it is available to pair up with a complementary DNA strand. Likewise, each domain in the track has a single stranded region that can pair with a complementary strand. The single strands on the foot and footpath are designed so that they should not generally pair up. The researchers have to add a strand, called a set strand, that is complementary to both to make the foot attach to the foothold. To make the walker take a step, the researchers then add another DNA strand called an unset strand to release the foot. After this, the released foot grabs another set strand and the process can be repeated. The research has been published in the journal Nano Letters. -- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Parasite protein spurs child malaria vaccine efforts
Parasite protein spurs child malaria vaccine efforts Mike Shanahan4 May 2004Source: SciDev.Net Scientists have identified a protein produced by the malaria parasite that is responsible for the severe childhood form of the disease. They hope that this protein could be a target for a vaccine that could save thousands of children's lives in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings concern one of a number of proteins that are found on the surface of human red blood cells infected by the parasites. These proteins help the malaria parasite survive in the human body by stopping the removal of blood cells in the spleen, therefore allowing the parasite to reproduce. Malaria parasites produce different proteins depending on whether the person infected is a young child or an older person with a well-developed immune response. As the human body fights the disease, it develops an immune response to it by producing antibodies against the malaria proteins. This reduces the range of proteins the parasite can produce and still survive, and causes it to produce less harmful proteins. Scientists hope that a vaccine based on such proteins found only in childhood malaria could accelerate this process and, with it, the development of immunity. But until now, they haven't been able to identify the proteins involved. This week, researchers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Tanzania report in The Journal of Experimental Medicine that they have identified one of these, a protein produced specifically during severe childhood malaria as PfEMP1. They have been able to show that this protein causes infected cells to become stuck in blood vessels instead of being removed in the spleen. Infected blood cells eventually burst leading to life-threatening fever. "Our data suggest that it is possible to develop a disease-ameliorating vaccine against severe malaria that is based on [these childhood malaria] proteins," they write. Furthermore, unlike other malaria proteins, PfEMP1 is structurally similar between parasites in West and East Africa, increasing the potential for a universal immunity-boosting vaccine.Link to abstract of full article in The Journal of Experimental Medicine Related SciDev.Net articles: Mozambique starts malaria vaccine trial Double punch malaria vaccine offers new hopeMalaria vaccine efforts take new focus --- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Tanzania takes politics online!
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ugnet_: Scientists Pursue Happiness
Sanibona! Ninjani?! A happy week to you all. FN Lugemwa Scientists Pursue Happiness William J. Cromie The Gazette April, 2004 Happiness is never as good as you imagine it will be, and it never lasts as long as you think it will. But the same also holds true for unhappiness. Thats the conclusion of scientists who cheerfully study this elusive state. When we try to predict what will make us happy were often wrong, says Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. Researchers all over the world find the same predictable errors, whether the pursuit involves romance, a new car, or a sumptuous meal. Gilbert uses the results of his study of election outcomes as an example. Many Democrats insist that the re-election of George W. Bush would make them unbearably unhappy. Many Republicans maintain that the election of John Kerry would send them and the whole country into a deep ditch of discontentment for a long time to come. Gilbert compares such forecasts to a 1992 campaign when Bush squared off against Ann Richards for the governorship of Texas. Only one month after Bush won, his supporters werent as happy as they thought they would be, and those that opposed him werent as sad. People are wonderful rationalizers Gilbert points out. They will rearrange their view of the world so it doesnt hurt as much. Anti- Bushers he interviewed said things like : The governor of Texas really doesnt have much power. And He wants to be the president , so hes not going to do anything too dumb or crazy. The same holds true for lovers who breakup. Rationalization quickly replaces devastation. She was never right for me, the spurned lover says. I recognized that when she threw the ring in my face. What is happiness? If psychologists all over the county are studying happiness, there must be a good definition of it. Not necessarily. Gilbert compares it to defining a thing like insanity. Its hard to say what it is, but I know it when I see it, he says. Philosophers often give happiness a moral meaning. Aristotle claims that a happy life is a life of virtue. If you are sinful, you cant be happy. Psychologists dont go that far. It simply means feeling good, Gilbert says with a smile. The feeling that you get when a granddaughter runs into your arms, when you help a lost tourist find her way, when you bite into the perfect hamburger or veggie burger, Its what tickles the sweet spot in the deep part of your brain. In other words, every happy person experiences the same feeling, but different things bring on that feeling. When a child jumps into a lap, it may be a transcendental experience for grandma, but just a screeching, wet kid for others. Such differences, however, dont go as deep as the fact the happiness joyfully jumps over cultural and species lines. We havent found any society that doesnt laugh, notes Gilbert. Ninety percent of what makes one person happy makes other people happy. Thats no surprise. We share the same brain architecture. And dogs, cats and other mammals probably experience feelings a lot like our happiness. That said, happiness is an emotion, and emotions are not meant to be held onto. Fear is an emotion, but you dont want to hold onto it very long. What we fear is usually clear but were more often wrong than we are right when we try to achieve happiness. Close your eyes and try to visualize what will make you happy: a luxury car, a vacation in the tropics, a sumptuous meal, the blond hunk in the accounting department. When you project yourself into the future like this, researchers agree that you will make a predictable set of errors. Gilbert and other happiness investigators have asked groups of people to forecast their feelings about things that will make them happy. Each person assigns a number to how she or he will feel, like on a scale of one to 10. After they obtain that car, vacation, or lover, they rate their feeling again. Then we subtract the two numbers, explains Gilbert. If the difference is zero, then they were as happy as they thought they would be. But as it turns out, the difference is almost never zero. How to be happy Is there some surgery, pill, program, or religion to help us avoid this robust and insidious bias? Gilbert asks. He is a pleasant, talkative , theatrical person, like a good stand-up comedian. It turns out to be both the easiest and hardest thing to do, he says. Its easy because you have the information you need right in front of you. Its hard because people dont want to use it. Instead of projecting yourself into the future, trying to imagine how you will feel, just ask someone who has had the same experience, Gilbert advises. Ask the person how they enjoyed dating Lynn, visiting that vacation spot, or choosing that school. Its a more accurate way to get information than trying to guess yourself, he points out. But people hardly ever use it. In one experiment,
ugnet_: Social networks key to Uganda's HIV success story
Social networks key to Uganda's HIV success story 30 April 2004Source: Uganda's massive decline in HIV infections is attributable to communication about AIDS within local social networks and personal knowledge of someone with AIDS or HIV. These factors are linked to major changes in sexual behaviour based on risk avoidance, and a reduction in casual sex in particular, according to research published in Science. The study reports that the number of HIV-positive Ugandans has fallen from 1.5 million to 500,000 in the past decade a success rate equivalent to a vaccine of 80 per cent effectiveness. These findings should encourage a re-think of global HIV/AIDS intervention policies, the researchers say. Link to full article in Science Reference: Science 304, 714 (2004) Link to news story in Nature Science Update Quick guides: HIV/AIDS --- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Federo is a hot issue!
Letters: www.ugandaobserver.com April 29, 2004 I thank Mr Lugendo for responding to my article, Federo is a unifying force for Uganda that appeared in The Weekly Observer of April 15-21. Federalism is one of the most important issues of our time. I agree with him that advocates of federalism have not done enough to educate the masses about it. The federal system we propose allows every Ugandan to live in a region of his or her choice. Non-Baganda will not be evicted from Buganda and Baganda should be able to live in other areas of Uganda. Those opposed to federo tend to do so for personal reasons, including personal property, fear and hate, rather than possible shortcomings in the federal system itself. Christine Nabukeera, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Unedited letter Dear Mr. Lugendo,Thank you for responding to my article (Federo is aunifying force for Uganda) that appeared in The WeeklyObserver of April 15, 2004. In my view, Federalism isone of the most important issues of our time! I agree with you that Advocates for Federalism for Allsocieties in Uganda have not done enough to educatethe masses about our findings. Through opportunitiessuch as this one, we are better positioned to engagein discussions and possibly impart acquired knowledgenecessary for social and economic improvements for allUgandans. We believe that the problem in Uganda is the system.That system is the unitary model. It is the systembecause for the past 41 years the results are thesame whether Uganda is led by an educated orsemi-illiterate. This is in terms of human rightsviolations, corruption, theft, and the glaringsocio-economic equalities among people and betweensocieties/regions. The only change we have witnessedis the location/region of suffering. We are proposing to restructure our social andeconomic institutions and not movements of people perse. The Federal system of governance we proposeallows every Ugandan to live in a region of his or herchoice. Non-Baganda will not be evicted from Bugandaand Baganda should be able to live in other areas ofthe country. The fact that Mr. Otafire has amassedwealth in Buganda, does not, and should not give himthe right to deprive or deny a people of theirinherent right to self-determination. Our experiencehas shown that those opposed to the federo proposal,do so for personal reasons such as personal property,morbid fears and hate rather than possible limitationsin the federal system itself. Leaving us to wonderabout who is really looking out for 'the common good'.We have managed to operationalize some of our findingsthrough workshops, teleconferences, and consultationswith key stakeholders, as well as a massivebrainstorming happening at [EMAIL PROTECTED]Please visit us at www.federo.com. This website has abrochure - translated into various Ugandan languages.We consider these developments a good start.Wishing you the very best. Christine Nabukeera[EMAIL PROTECTED]-- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: African science academies get US$20 million boost
African science academies get US$20 million boost David Dickson23 April 2004Source: SciDev.Net The foundation set up by software billionaire Bill Gates has agreed to provide US$20 million over the next ten years to promote better decision-making on science-related issues in Africa, particularly those concerning human health. The money will be channelled through the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Much of it will be used to build up the policy-related activities of three African academies to be selected later this year, in the hope that these will be able to exert similar influence on their governments as the NAS does in Washington. In addition to strengthening the role of the three selected academies, the money will also be used to develop what the US academy describes as "an alliance of African science academies" through annual symposia and collaborative workshops. "Understanding the critical importance of basing decisions on sound science and incorporating it into the policy-making process could be an important step forward for many African nations," says Bruce Alberts, president of the NAS, who has long held a deep personal interest in promoting science in developing countries. "The goal of integrating scientific advice and public policy can best be accomplished by boosting both the capacity and the credibility of the institutions that represent the scientific and medical communities in individual countries." According to the academy, some of the funds will be used to train academy staff members to plan and conduct scientific studies and major conferences that offer policy guidance, two activities in which the NAS is heavily engaged. The money, which comes from the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, will also be used to raise and manage money from outside sources, to tap 'useful information technology', and to build good relationships with government officials and other stakeholders. Richard Klausner, executive director of the foundation's global health programme, points out that eliminating global inequities in health provision requires ensuring that the fruits of science, technology and medicine are available to all countries."We hope that this important initiative will help achieve the goal of better health for all by engaging the African scientific community in critical African policy decisions," he says.The science academies in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, as well as the African Academy of Sciences, based in Nairobi, are thought to be leading candidates for involvement in the project. But other bodies are also known to be under consideration. According to a statement issued by the NAS, the grant will cover activities such as creating a forum in each of the selected academies to bring together representatives from its country's scientific, government, industry and non-government communities in order to incorporate scientific evidence into health policy-making..The money will also be used to prepare reports giving advice to governments on ways to improve health in Africa, or to hold major events with the same goal. And funds will also be given to improve staff-development opportunities, as well as 'technological, workforce, and material resources' in each of the three partner academies. "Every country needs an organised way to call upon its own scientific and medical communities for guidance," says Alberts. "The ultimate goal of this initiative is to help each participating academy achieve, by the end of the 10-year period, a well-developed and enduring capacity to provide credible policy advice for its nation."The NAS has been deeply engaged in recent years in boosting the capacities of science academies throughout the developing world, in particular through its support of the InterAcademy Panel, a body that brings together more than 90 such scientific bodies. The need to promote mechanisms able to give better advice to governments on science-related issues was also highlighted in the report entitled Inventing a Better Future: A Strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology, published earlier this year by the IAP's sister body, the InterAcademy Council, whose activities are also strongly supported by the NAS. Related SciDev.Net articles: Capacity building: a chance for actionRelated links: Bill Melinda Gates FoundationInterAcademy PanelInterAcademy CouncilInventing a Better Future: A strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Kitovu College: Masakas dream come true
"Abayizi be Kitovu aba haya (A level) bediimye lwabutagala kwambala mpale za kikuyege(khaki)." Some Newspaper Those were the good old days!FNL - Kitovu College: Masakas dream come true Profile: By Michael J. Ssali April 26, 2004 Somewhere in the early 1920s nearly all students in St. Marys College Kisubi were from Masaka. The main means of transport then was by foot, so it was such a hard task for the Masaka boys to travel to school. That was why the White Fathers decided that a school similar to St. Marys be built in Masaka. In 1922 St. Henrys College Kitovu was started. The statues of the founder headmasters Fr. Adrian Laberge (L) and Brother Eugine Paquette. (Photo by Michael Ssali).According to Mr Bernard Bukesa, who studied in the school from 1923, the school was grass thatched and was situated beside the present Cathedral at Kitovu. Bukesa, now a retired teacher recounts that the diet then consisted of Matooke, sweet potatoes and vegetables. Kitovu admitted students who had completed primary four. They spent some five years at the school, and either joined Makerere College or went to take up jobs in the colonial government departments. Hardly any of them had a pair of shoes. The fee of six shillings a term was a problem to most parents and Bukesa says that they were about 120 students in the school. Its motto then was Kyosimba Onaanya. (The Banana tree you plant half-heartedly is the one from which you harvest the best banana bunch). In 1927 the White Fathers handed over St. Henrys College to the Brothers of Christian Instruction and the school moved to its present location on the top of Kitovu hill. Today St. Henrys College has a student population of 950 and a teaching staff of 50. It boasts of quite strong buildings resting on a spacious tidy compound. The headmaster, Brother Brian Matsiko, says that, his students dont just learn computer skills; they actually use computers to learn. Each student has up to two hours every week to surf the Internet, and they take some of their science lessons on the Internet. They also learn English, French and other arts subjects on the Internet. The Deputy headmaster Mr. Lawrence Ssenkubuge said, The computer is a very good teacher because it is willing all the time to repeat the lesson as many times as you command it. The schools Internet centre boasts of more than 120 computers.The students these days spend much less on writing letters he said. They just email and all of them have email addresses.Out of 125 students who sat O level last year, 117 passed in first grade. The school motto has changed to For Greater Horizons and the school fees are Shs 280, 000 a term. Some of the old boys of the school include the speaker of Parliament Mr Edward Ssekandi, MP Lubaga South Mr. Ken Lukyamuzi, and the head of Mulago Hospital Dr. Lawrence Kaggwa. The school diet comprises of posho, beans, matooke, potatoes, beef and eggs. Inside the headmasters office is full of trophies the school has won in various sports activities, which include football, basketball, hockey, cricket rugby and athletics. © 2004 The Monitor Publications FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala!
May be the results are already out! As a candidate what do you suggest? Touch screen? I also think that one ballot paper is enough for all issues. But you are bound to argue that it is much easier to cheat if it is only one page! FNL Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is also easier to switch a single ballot box with another one already stuffed! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:31 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: "Twagala kasandhuku kalala, sibusatu" in order to minimize pre-election ballot boxstuffing, etc. Dealing with one ballot box at each polling stationis more liley to deterarmed stuffers-- and it is much easier to verify theemptiness of oneballot box. ; God bless Uganda! FNL --- 3rd term, parties vote on same day SAME RESOURCES: Buturo (left) and Ngoma Ngime By Hamis Kaheru CABINET has decided that the proposed referenda on the political system and presidential term limit be held on the same day, information minister Dr. Nsaba Buturo said yesterday. The two referenda will be held on the same day but there are two questions which will be put to the public, Buturo told the weekly government press briefing at his offices in Nakasero, Kampala. In one question, voters will be asked whether they want the country to continue being governed under the Movement system or to return to multi-party politics. The second question will be on whether Article 105(2) of the Constitution should be repealed to remove the two-term limit for the presidency and allow continuous eligibility, popularly known as the third-term. Buturos remarks mean that Cabinet accepted justice and constitutional affairs mi nister Janat Mukwayas recommendation on the referenda. Mukwaya said on March 8 that she ha d recommended to the Government that the two referenda be held on the same day. The sh29b (cost of referendum) people are talking about is not for every issue that is to be decided through a referendum. It is possible to have a multiplicity of elections on the same day using the same resources and the same personnel, Mukwaya said on phone. She said under a joint referendum, voters would be required to tick different ballot papers and cast them in separate boxes. It is a matter of having one box for the referendum under Article 74 (change of political systems), another box for Article 105 (third-term) and another box for any other issue, she said. If a group of people can handle a referendum on one issue the same people can be used to manage another issue. We can have three or four elections on the same day and use the same reso urces, she said. Buturo said the question of funding the referenda was settled and tha t the exercise would take place by February next year. The funds will be there. We have found them, he said. When asked about the source of the funds the minister said, from your taxes. Finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last week said his ministry had allocated sh30b in the 2004/05 budget for the proposed referendum. Article 74 of the Constitution says the political system can be changed either through a referendum or through a resolution of Parliament upon a petition of district councils. Cabinet proposed to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) headed by Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, that a multi-party political system be adopted through a referendum under Article 74(1). However, CRC rejected the proposal and recommended that the change to multipartyism be effected through a resolution of Parliament under Article 74(2). The CR C argued that the referendum was an unnecessary costly exercise because the leadership, which would have been on the forefront of championing the Movement System, had already opted for a change to multipartyism. This means the outcome of the referendum on political systems is obvious since nobody would campaign against the proposed change to multiparty politics. Since there might not exist any effective groups to canvass the question, the costly exercise of a referendum should be avoided, the CRC report says. Article 74(3) of the Constitution says the referendum on political systems shall be held in the fourth year of the term of Parliament. This means that the referendum can be held any time between July 2004 and June 2005. Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints
ugnet_: Blood test speeds sleeping sickness detection
Blood test speeds sleeping sickness detection 23 April 2004Source: BBC Online Researchers have developed a blood test that allows early diagnosis of sleeping sickness, the parasitic disease that affects half a million people each year in sub-Saharan Africa. The test, described in The Lancet, checks blood samples for a 'signature' of proteins specific to the infection. Until now it has been difficult to detect the disease until an advanced stage of infection. Untreated, sleeping sickness is usually fatal, and early diagnosis could help avoid unnecessary drug treatments and side effects. But critics say that the test is too high-tech to be practical for use in the field. Link to full story on BBC Online Link to research paper in The Lancet - FN L Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo oppose third term!-WBK
Nowhere at all did Wapakhabulo oppose third term! SIR It is a shame that the editors at the New Vision accepted to publish the nonsense by Prof Semakula Kiwanuka. His article is off topic. What is he disagreeing with the late James Wapakhabulo for, in the first place? Nowhere did Wapakhabulo write that the Constitution cannot be amended. So what is the history professors beef? The issue has been misunderstood by both critics of Wapakhabulo like Prof Semakula and some in the media who have rushed to claim that Wapakhabulo was opposed to term limits. Well, both have not read carefully. Or should we assume they are incompetent of a literal interpretation of the late minister's letter? Nowhere, I repeat nowhere, does Wapakhabulo oppose the third term. Let us get that clear. So where exactly does Prof Semakula get the impression that the late Wapakhabulo was not in favour of amending the Constitution? What Wapakhabulo put forward was a warning, if one can call it that, that the proper procedure should be followed, not whether the Constitution should be amended. It is therefore an issue of process or means and not ends. If I read the late Wapakhabulos letter clearly, he was advising the President to follow the proper procedure, that is, to take his views to Parliament because under the current Constitution, it is the only body with the power, and not the peasants, to amend the Constitution, to grant his burning ambition to eliminate the two-term limit or not. Semakula wants readers to believe that the 1995 Constitution provided for a referendum on this and other issues. Where does it say so other than quoting the preamble that power belongs to the people? Semakula should pinpoint the exact section of the Constitution that entrusts the task at hand to the general voting public, the peasants. The truth is that under the current Constitution, the power to amend Article 105 (2) does not lie with the peasants or the general voting public, but rather with their elected representatives the MPs. I am not sure whether as an ex-officio, Prof Kiwanuka can vote on constitutional amendments or not. Therefore, instead of misleading the public, he should direct his efforts to convincing his fellow members of the House who have been entrusted with the onerous task of dealing with Article 105 (2). Simply said, Ugandans in their wisdom opted for a representative democracy and not direct democracy in the form of referenda. W. B. Kyijomanyi Kampala Published on: Saturday, 24th April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Twagala kasandhuku kalala, sibusatu
in order to minimize pre-election ballot boxstuffing, etc. Dealing with one ballot box at each polling stationis more liley to deterarmed stuffers-- and it is much easier to verify theemptiness of oneballot box. God bless Uganda! FNL --- 3rd term, parties vote on same day SAME RESOURCES: Buturo (left) and Ngoma Ngime By Hamis Kaheru CABINET has decided that the proposed referenda on the political system and presidential term limit be held on the same day, information minister Dr. Nsaba Buturo said yesterday. The two referenda will be held on the same day but there are two questions which will be put to the public, Buturo told the weekly government press briefing at his offices in Nakasero, Kampala. In one question, voters will be asked whether they want the country to continue being governed under the Movement system or to return to multi-party politics. The second question will be on whether Article 105(2) of the Constitution should be repealed to remove the two-term limit for the presidency and allow continuous eligibility, popularly known as the third-term. Buturos remarks mean that Cabinet accepted justice and constitutional affairs minister Janat Mukwayas recommendation on the referenda. Mukwaya said on March 8 that she ha d recommended to the Government that the two referenda be held on the same day. The sh29b (cost of referendum) people are talking about is not for every issue that is to be decided through a referendum. It is possible to have a multiplicity of elections on the same day using the same resources and the same personnel, Mukwaya said on phone. She said under a joint referendum, voters would be required to tick different ballot papers and cast them in separate boxes. It is a matter of having one box for the referendum under Article 74 (change of political systems), another box for Article 105 (third-term) and another box for any other issue, she said. If a group of people can handle a referendum on one issue the same people can be used to manage another issue. We can have three or four elections on the same day and use the same resources, she said. Buturo said the question of funding the referenda was settled and tha t the exercise would take place by February next year. The funds will be there. We have found them, he said. When asked about the source of the funds the minister said, from your taxes. Finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last week said his ministry had allocated sh30b in the 2004/05 budget for the proposed referendum. Article 74 of the Constitution says the political system can be changed either through a referendum or through a resolution of Parliament upon a petition of district councils. Cabinet proposed to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) headed by Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, that a multi-party political system be adopted through a referendum under Article 74(1). However, CRC rejected the proposal and recommended that the change to multipartyism be effected through a resolution of Parliament under Article 74(2). The CRC argued that the referendum was an unnecessary costly exercise because the leadership, which would have been on the forefront of championing the Movement System, had already opted for a change to multipartyism. This means the outcome of the referendum on political systems is obvious since nobody would campaign against the proposed change to multiparty politics. Since there might not exist any effective groups to canvass the question, the costly exercise of a referendum should be avoided, the CRC report says. Article 74(3) of the Constitution says the referendum on political systems shall be held in the fourth year of the term of Parliament. This means that the referendum can be held any time between July 2004 and June 2005. Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: SA Scientists Build Bolt That Cries for Help
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ugnet_: Counting ballot papers in the dark!
While counting Waigumbulizis votes, the battery of the lamp fell down and was removed by students who disappeared with it. !! Can you bbaliiv that? FN Lugemwa Makerere rigs polls By Arthur Baguma and Pidson Kareire Makerere University Students Guild Electoral Commission yesterday nullified the election results for Livingstone Hall over rigging and violence. But the commission declared a Uganda Youth Democrat (UYD) activist Ronald Mukasa Ssenkubuge winner. In Livingstone hall one candidate purportedly received 739 votes when the registered voters were only 693. In a statement, the commission cited 24 reasons why the Livingstone results were nullified. While counting Waigumbulizis votes, the battery of the lamp fell down and was removed by students who disappeared with it. Some other students tore the paper where the chairman had tallied and the speaker of Livingstone Hall refused the agents of any candidates to stand behind him to see what was going on. The agents said they were chased and threatened at the Hall. The Guild electoral commission chairman, Julius Ojok, said the polls w ere free and fair apart from Livingstone Hall where fake ballot papers were stuffed in the box by some students. He said according to 11 polling stations, Mukasa was the winner. We regret the fact that no single vote from Livingstone Hall has been considered and that could have denied the genuine voters their rights. We therefore state that any grievances should be lodged with the electoral tribunal as per the Guild Constitution and we hereby declare Ronald Mukasa Ssenkubuge the guild president, Ojok said. Mukasa, 22, a second year student of Bachelor of Statistics from Nkrumah Hall got 1,410. his closest rival, Samuel Opio Acuti of Lumumba Hall, polled 1,071 votes. Donald Waigumburizi of Livingstone Hall ranked third with 727 votes followed by Ibrahim Muwaya also of Livingstone Hall with 489 votes. Published on: Wednesday, 21st April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: MSc. Scholarships for Science students who are in Uganda
MSc Scholarship Programme in Science and Technologyhttp://www.scidev.net/grants/index.cfm?fuseaction=readgrantsitemid=164language=1Organisation: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Closing date: 30 April 2004 FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
ugnet_: Federo is unifying force for Uganda-Christine Nabukeera
Letters-- www.ugandaobserver.com http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php Federo is unifying force for Uganda by Christine Nabukeera "Advocates for federalism in Uganda" is an independent, non-partisan think tank. Its mission is to champion ideas that will help Ugandans make informed public policy choices. Our research aims to enhance the quality of the debate on the issues that matter most to Ugandans by focusing on the strategic choices they must make to promote economic performance, social progress and sound democratic governance. Federalism is proposed as a tool against bad governance. We are suggesting that we manage our day-to-day governance locally because we have too much difficulty running everything from the centre. Most importantly, instead of pretending that we are united, let us actually negotiate and plan that unity. Hegel once said, "Freedom is the recognition of necessity". In Uganda today, the most important thing we must recognise is the necessity to abandon the current model (unitary) of governance that has failed to serve the whole country.Federalism for all does not favour any region over the rest, but rather treats all regions equally, irrespective of size and wealth. We argue that equal representation should be constitutionally guaranteed and fixed. We embrace an all-inclusive federalism for Uganda for a more efficient, equitable and fair distribution of wealth and resources. Christine Nabukeera, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Reposted by FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th
ugnet_: Uganda Virus Institute Gets New Laboratory
Virus Institute Gets New Laboratory Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite New Vision (Kampala) April 12, 2004 Posted to the web April 12, 2004 Charles BwogiKampala UGANDA Virus Research Institute, Entebbe recently received a new laboratory office worth $51,000 for the Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI). The Institute's director, Dr. Miph Musoke, said the building was funded by the WHO to aid the fight against immunisable diseases such as Measles and Polio. "Because of the high standards shown by the EPI laboratory, more responsibilities have been given to it, such as quality control of vaccines, diagnostics of several childhood diseases and training in Uganda and the region," Musoke said. He said EPI's was writing a proposal to incorporate Hepatitis vaccination in the immunisation programme. Opening the new laboratory office block, the State minister for primary health care, Alex Kamugisha, said immunisation played a very important role in transforming society. "Although Uganda has made great steps in the provision of immunisation services, we still have a long way to go before the epidemics are wiped out," Kamugisha said. Relevant Links East Africa Science and Biotechnology Health and Medicine Uganda The WHO country representative, Walker Oladapo, promised more support to the EPI. "I want to see the day when Africa will be able to stop all epidemics, but this takes excellent laboratories and for that you can always count on our support," he said. -- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today
ugnet_: 'Lucy' to Go to Texas ......
'Lucy' to Go to Texas to Be Exhibited in United States Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite Addis Tribune (Addis Ababa) April 9, 2004 Posted to the web April 9, 2004 The skeleton of "Lucy", believed to be 3.2 million years old, is scheduled to be exhibited in the United Stated, it was learnt. In an interview with Addis Tribune, Geofrey S. Connor, Texas secretary of state who is here at the head of a business delegation from Texas, said that the American Public would be Excited to see "Lucy," a historical Archaeological finding. At a meeting with the visiting American business delegation, Yusuf Abdoulani, Commissioner for Ethiopian Tourism Commission, said that "Lucy" would be exhibited in the US with other religious artifacts of historical significance in the hope to promote the good image of Ethiopia in the US. While in the US, he said, "Lucy" would be provided the maximum protection and returned to Ethiopia safely. --- FN LugemwaDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th
ugnet_: The Relentless Pursuit of Common sense
Sunset clause, the Kyankwazi proposal in a nutshell. Leave two-term limit alone--but 'bend' the law to accomodate Museveni. In other words, allow Museveni andMuseveni aloneto try and serve three terms-but leave two-term limit in place. Good or bad deal? Read on!FNL --- With political parties in play, the Movement system can be abandoned and the incumbent starts a first term as the leader of NRM-O without removing the term limit now and have more than 2/3 of MPs from NRM-O who can use an act of parliament to remove the term limit. -Ed Kironde Kironde: Let me pick up on your contribution above. This is exactly what I had in mind too. If theparties stop behaving as if they are angels, theycould come out with a good deal for the country. Ibelieve YKM is simply raising the tempo because hewants to find a way to run again. So he threatens, orhis people threaten to eliminate the two-term limit. If the parties were good negotiators, obviously, theyare visionless with no credible strategy, they wouldhave countered with an offer. They would call a Pressconference and respond to the Kyankwanzi option-evenwhen Kyankwanzi made it explicit: to exempt YKM aloneso that he can run (no guarantee he will win) theparties had no response. If the parties really knew what they want (well theyknow, but have no clue what the peasants want) theywould have responded to the offer: to let YKM run,that is to suspend or sunset the constitution andproceeded to fine tune the language to make it specifcto YKM and YKM alone. If he lost the election, thatwould be it. If he died that would be it.Mark you, some day YKM will have to go, so I thoughtKyankwanzi made a reasonable offer to negotiate.Had the so called big 5 or big plus 2 pressure groupsbeen good negotiators, Uganda would be nearing abreakthrough towards a peaceful transition.Unfortunately, some in the big 7 have too muchpersonal hatred for YKM and have lost the ball in theprocess. All they are saying, YKM must go. Must go!There is too much intersection between the public andprivate among the key actors and that has blurred thepublic interests.If the big 7 had jumped on the Kyankwanzi offer-itshould have been the single issue to hammer out toensure the proper and tight legal language and moveon. Ugandans would be breathing easy in the knowledgethat all is not l ost in that if YKM lost the electionor passed away, the next leader irrespective of partywould AUTOMATICALLY be bound by the two-term limitclause. In other words YKM's defeat or death wouldautomatically trigger a resumption to the status quo,that is, the two-tem limit clause. Why is that not a good way forward? It helps to healthe country. It even helps the big 7 to strategize howto defeat YKM in that his defeat would bring back thetwo-term limit clause. It is certain that no matterwhat, YKM is going to die one day. That is a given.But the big 7 are gambling irrationally with thefuture of our country. They dream (yap it is daydreaming folks) that this parliament will defeatYKM's desire. Not a chance in a million.And listen to this: the anti-sad term crusaders wantvoting to be by secret ballot. Why? So that even thecritics d uring the day can vote for the permanetelimination of the two-term limit clause. Mark mywords, the margin of victory will be larger in favourof eliminating the two-term limit clause under secretballot voting than would be the case under physicalvoting. Why again? Because the outspoken would thenfeel ashamed. Ironically, YKM is opposed to the secretballot, while the anti-sad term are pushing for it. A lot of money is going to change hands and given that our MPs are spoilt, how can they sustain theirexpensive lifestyles outside parliament? They need YKMbadly.They need him to be able to live like big men andwomen always beyond their means. I have wondered whether labor/union leaders would havedone a better job negotiating for the country than thevisionless team from the so called big 7. They have noclue what negotiations entail. They just demanded,demanded. If they had put a credible alternative on the table,before the people of Uganda by way of a sunset clausethat lets YKM run as the NRMO candidate, even thedonor community would be on our side. YKM would haveto justify why exempting him to have another run wouldnot be good enough, but the big 7 have allowed him todictate the way forward.Let me tell you something, forget the show. As ofnow MPs from Western Uganda have given the impressionthat they are the ones pushing hard or standing up toYKM, do not buy it. It is a trick to extend westernUgandan domination /hegemony on Ugandan politics. All they care about is how to continue dominating therest of the country, how to continue stealing publicfunds, how to continue dominating government jobs. But in the usual lack of judgement, the rest is goingaround saying, look who is oppoed to YKM, "twateraembundu". Wrong. you see ho w all of a sudden Kategaya,Muntu and
ugnet_: Be fair; be ethical--WB Kyijomanyi
Weekly Observer: www.Ugandaobserver.com Article Published on: 1st April 2004 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Be fair; be ethical It is good for Ugandans to have diverse media. It is particularly good for democracy, especially during this ekisanja [third term] period. It is also good for The Monitor, despite what looks like a massive defection of 'big' names in the industry. The paper could actually become better in the end. Within two months, two supposedly formidable publications, The Weekly Observer and the Reform Agenda magazine, have entered the Ugandan market. Let's wait and see how they will add value to the debate and dialogue, especially the federalism debate and the transition. My prayer is that the new publications will try to broaden their opinion pages as well as their letters pages. Some unsolicited advice: Take a stand. You can't be like The New York Times and The National Enquirer at once. I sensed that The Monitor was trying to be both a mainstream and a tabloid (same applies to The New Vision). The new publications should not try to appeal to every reader. They should leave some stuff to Bukedde, the New Vision, Red Pepper and The Monitor. They must strive to be different from the pack in order to be taken seriously. By the way, the new publications do not have to be apolitical. They just have to be fair and ethical. That means saying sorry when you get the facts wrong, and giving the other side a chance to be heard. I hope Mr Ogen Kevin Aliro's team will be different, fair, imaginative and creative. It is okay to take a position as long as that stand is fair. Even the greatest newspaper in the world, (okay USA), The New York Times, does not pretend to be neutral for it is liberal, and it is known that come November 2004, The New York Times and other 'liberal' papers will endorse Senator John Kerry [against President George W. Bush]. But New York Times is also fair to the Republican side. There is no such a thing as neutrality when it comes to the print media. What is key is fairness. Good luck and may your publications grow and survive to have an impact on the political, social, economic, rural, regional and international agenda of Uganda. W. B. Kyijomanyi,[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php -FN LugemwaDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today
ugnet_: Federo sio kuunda taifa ndani ya taifa ingini
Letter to the Editor - Monitor - 20th March 2004 Federo is not a Buganda thing alone - FN Lugemwa Federo sio kuunda taifa ndani ya taifa ingini. Federo in kuipa maana kuu saidi sirikali kuu, ina maana kungawa mamlaka katikati ya sirikali kuu na sirikali za mikoa ndani ya taifa. Ni kuuda binu za kuondao udictator wa mtu mmoja. Ina maana makali ya kupambana na upizadi, kutokuhesimu haki za binadama, na utunizi mbaya wa offisi(wofiisi). Ina maana ya uhuru, maendeleo na utajiri, na mwishowe siku sijazo nzuri kwaq kila moja. Chini ya Federo, Mikoa upeana sehemu ya mamalaka ya siahazi kwa sirikali kuu, uku wakitarajia sirikali itende wema kwa wote . Federo is not about creating a state within a state. Federo is about giving greater meaning and vitality to the central government, it is about sharing power between the central government and the regional governments in a modern state. It is about putting institutions in place that will do away with one-man dictatorships. It is about vigorously dealing with corruption, human rights abuse, and abuse of office. It is about freedom, prosperity and wealth, and hence a better future for everyone. Under a federo system, the regions surrender some of their political power to the central government, relying on it to act for the common good. Federo is meant to give sovereignty and freedom back to the individual. Its major objective is to integrate the different constituent units by providing for their differences and diversity in the central organization and guaranteeing that they all have a say in the conduct of their affairs. Some will argue that by all indications decentralisation seems to be working just fine; what is the need for federalism? Under decentralization in a unitary state, all powers are owned by the central government and can be repossessed at will by their owner - the central government in Kampala. In the struggles that competition begets when the owners of power lose, they repossess some or all of those powers. In federal systems, some powers are owned by the centre and some by the provinces, states or cantons. Therefore, unilateral repossession of powers is not possible. Given the competitive nature of intergovernmental relations, a central government in Kampala would find it difficult to resist the temptation to repossess a power it had hitherto decentralized if it found itself more or less continuously losing in the competitive struggle with more junior authorities [the districts in Uganda], a situation that cannot arise in federal states because in those states the division of powers is based on a constitutionally entrenched divided ownership of powers.Federo for all might be Uganda's only remaining lifeline. FN LugemwaDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
ugnet_: Brand new 'baby'
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ugnet_: Farmers Unpaid for Coffee Clones
The Monitor (Kampala) March 25, 2004 Posted to the web March 25, 2004 Michael J. SsaliMasaka Clonal coffee nursery owners in Masaka and Ssembabule districts have said that the Uganda Coffee Development Authority has not paid them for the clones they have been producing for the last two years. Some 56 nursery owners said during a meeting in Masaka town on Tuesday that UCDA owes each of them money ranging from Shs 1 million to Shs 18 million. Their leader Joseph Ssebatta said state minister for Agriculture Kibirige Ssebunya and the UCDA Managing Director Ngabirano in May 2002 told them told them to make Robusta coffee clones to supply to coffee farmers and that UCDA would pay them. - FN LDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
ugnet_: MUK Calls for GMOs Debate
Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite New Vision (Kampala) March 24, 2004 Posted to the web March 24, 2004 Patrick LugandaKampala MAKERERE University has called for increased frequency in debates about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in order to demystify the myths surrounding them. The public has difficulty in differentiating the bad from the good with the new technology, a recently concluded biotechnology conference heard. Prof George Serwadda was singled out as one of the pioneer researchers who used biotechnology techniques together with colleagues at Mulago to identify the AIDS virus as the cause of the scourge which hit Rakai more than a decade ago. There were potential benefits in the pharmaceutical industry, nutrition and other new technologies to improve plant and animal health. The dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Prof Mateete Bekunda said the public was confused when they came across such words as genetically modified foods, Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), tissue culture and similar terminology. The GMO debate is raging worldwide following the spread of the growing of GM crops which started in the developed countries fast spreading to the developing world. "It is imperative that fora be established where dialogue on cross-cutting issues in biotechnology can be exposed and demystified," Bekunda said. He said that the new vision for Makerere was to be a centre of academic excellence, providing world class teaching research relevant to the needs of society. Richard Kimera of the Consumer Education Trust said the public had to be educated on their basic consumer rights to acquire necessary knowledge and skills. Relevant Links East Africa Education Uganda Science and Biotechnology Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs The other basic consumer rights included safety, information, choice, redress, representation and a healthy environment. "In addition the consumer has the right to basic needs that is the right to basic products which guarantee consumer survival, adequate food, healthcare, clothing, shelter, education and sanitation," said Kimera. He added that consumers also have responsibilities to ensure that they get the best from the introduction of biotechnology. The responsibilities include critical awareness, consumer action, social concern, environmental awareness as well as solidarity in joint action. FN LDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
ugnet_: Drunken Fuel Cell--Chemystery
The Future of Fuel Cell Economy Drunken Fuel Cell Researchers at Saint Louis University are developing a postage-stamp-size fuel cell that can generate up to three months worth of electricity on a nip of alcohol and a few natural enzymes. Such a miniaturized power pack could one day replace the short-lived conventional batteries that now power portable electronic gadgets such as cellphones and labtops, claims lead researcher Shelley Minteer. Simply put, a fuel cell is a battery that combines hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity. Most micro-fuel cells use expensive platinum catalysts to convert methanol fuel into hydrogen. (Hydrogen on its own is volatile and tricky to transport.) Trouble is, methanol degrades the platinum and ultimately causes the cell to generate less electricity. Minteers fuel cell, on the other hand, relies on natural enzymes to convert alcohol-based fuels into hydrogen. Such enzymes are far cheaper than platinum and more fuel-efficient. But theyre delicate and become inactive when conditions arent rightnot good fro a battery life. Thats why Minteers lab has designed a new way to keep the enzymes intact and the fuel cell running longer. The secret is a Teflon-like polymer chemically engineered to house dozens of microscopic pods just big enough to cradle one enzyme each. When painted onto a negatively charged electrode in a fuel cell, the material shields the enzymes from fluctuations in temperature and acidity. In a pinch, the cell could run on whatever form of alcohol is handy: methanol, ethanoleven vodka and wine work well. But how a labtop user would recharge his battery with a glass of Merlot at the airport bar is a question yet to be answered. Source: Popular Science-- Enzyme: Alcohol dehydrogenase --- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
ugnet_: Clean water: a neglected research priority
Clean water: a neglected research priority David Dickson22 March 2004 Providing adequate supplies of clean drinking water may not be the most exciting challenge facing scientists working in developing countries. But it is certainly one of the most pressing and, potentially, the most rewarding. Few issues exemplify more dramatically the gap between the potential of modern science and technology to meet the needs of the developing world, and the failure to fully realise that potential, than the lack of a clean and safe supply of water. In most of the developed world, the constant availability of clean water is virtually taken for granted (even if its purity is sometimes questioned). In the developing world it is the reverse; it is estimated, for example, that more than 1 billion people about one sixth of the world's population do not have access to safe drinking water, and figures published this week in the run-up to the Fourth World Water Forum, taking place in Mexico City, suggest that this number could quadruple by 2025. Equally concerning is the fact that 2.5 billion people currently lack adequate sanitation and that, largely as a result of this, a child under the age of five dies from a preventable waterborne illness about once every 10 seconds, a total of 2 million a year. And the importance of water is further underlined by the fact that water-related issues, ranging from the future availability of water supply to the potentially disastrous consequences of water-consuming agricultural practices, lie at the heart of many contemporary concerns about the fate of the planet. Many of our worries about the impact of human-induced climate change, for example, are related to its effects on patterns of precipitation and sea-level rise. In some areas, it is the resulting lack of water that will have profound consequences; increasing droughts, for example, are forecast for many parts of Africa, with their inevitable impact on food production (and thus poverty in general). In other areas, the problems will be the result of too much water, for example the threatened disruption to the lives of millions living in countries with extensive low-lying coastal regions, such as Bangladesh. Remember, too, that it is through the water supply that much of the less desirable consequences of modern food production techniques are experienced. There has been substantial progress in recent years in reducing the negative effects on both human health and wildlife of direct exposure to chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. But it has proven far more difficult to control the effects of low-level residues of these chemicals that inevitably enter the water supply. One of the complaints of the companies who were accused last year of not adequately eliminating pesticide residues from soft drinks manufactured in India (see Indian row over 'pesticides in soft drinks' claim) was that the vast quantities of chemicals used to achieve the Green Revolution made access to pesticide-free water suppl ies virtually impossible. Finally one should not forget those situations in which well-intended efforts to provide adequate water supplies has itself caused major social problems. In some cases, as with the damming of rivers and the resultant upheaval of communities, the social disruption has been predictable, even if its full implications are rarely taken into account (and sometimes deliberately ignored). In others, the consequences have been less predictable, and often more dramatic. For example, large regions of South Asia appear to be facing the threat of arsenic poisoning already being suffered in epidemic proportions in Bangladesh as a result of taking water from deep wells in a bid to compensate for the increasing difficulty in obtaining adequate access to groundwater (see Asia's arsenic crisis deepens). A global crisis Put these facts together, and it is not difficult to conclude as is being highlighted by events planned to take place today, World Water Day (22 March) that the planet faces a serious water crisis. Furthermore, as is so widely experienced, it is the poorest, particularly in the developing world, who are the most vulnerable to the effects of this crisis. Indeed this is now generally recognised within the international aid community. For example, one of the key targets included in the Millennium Development Goals is to "halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation". But it is one thing to put a target like this on an international wish list. Achieving it (as several recent sceptical reports have correctly pointed out about the development goals in general) is a challenge of a different order of magnitude. 'India's future? Men, Machines, but no water', a photograph by Indian science journalist Pallava Bagla. This photograph is part of an exhibition 'Drops of Life', organised by LEAD India from 22 to 25 March at the
ugnet_: Bracketology: Male March Madness
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ugnet_: Rice boom in Uganda! What happened to Bogoya?
1. Nerica Rice Boom http://allafrica.com/stories/200403100363.html 2. Forestry Institute to Cost $1.3m http://allafrica.com/stories/200403100356.html Will the Institute have a Wood Chemistry Dept.? FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: Federo Highlight
What differentiates decentralization from federalism? Qs: By all indications decentralization seems to be working just fine; what is the need for federalism? What differentiates decentralization from federalism? A: The difference is the ownership of powers.Under decentralization in a unitary state, all powers are owned by the central government and can be repossessedat will by their owner - the central government in Kampala. In the struggles that competition begets when the owners of power lose, they repossess some or all of those powers.In federal systems, some powers are owned by the center and some by the provinces, states, and cantons (shared powers) that make up the federation.Therefore, unilateral repossession of powers is not possible. Given the competitive nature of intergovernmental relations, a central government in Kampala would find it difficult to resist the temptation to repossess a power it had hitherto decentralized if it found itself more or less continuously losing in the competitive struggle with more junior authorities [the districts in Uganda], a situation that cannot arise in federal states because in those states the division of powers is based on a constitutionally entrenched divided ownership of powers. The arrangement in a unitary state, which gives to the central government - the state - the ownership of all powers (responsibilities or functions) implies that the decentralization of powers is often unstable. That is not the case under federalism. http://www.federo.com/Pages/What's_New.htm FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: Remember that con man from Nigeria or DRC
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ugnet_: 1962 unworkable arrangement!
Listers Please find candid answers to some federo questions @ http://www.federo.com/Pages/faq.htm Obusingye FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: 1962 unworkable arrangement!
Musawo Kipenyi: Thou shall know the difference between your baby and someone else's baby. FN Lugemwa : [EMAIL PROTECTED]jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kipenji,why don't you compare the two and find out for yourself?The 1962 constitution (main excerpts) is at:http://www.federo.com/Pages/Uganda_Constitution_1962.htmwhile the federal proposal is at:http://www.federo.com/Pages/FedsNet%20Federal%20Proposals.htmKasangwawoFrom: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: ugnet_: 1962 unworkable arrangement!Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:40:02 + (GMT)Apart from the naming of the proposed 13 states,is there anythingfundamentally different from the 1962 unworkable arrangement?Just wondering aloud.Kipenji.===- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now_The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmailThis service is hosted on the Infocom networkhttp://www.infocom.co.ug Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail
ugnet_: Harvard Says Poor Parents Wont Have to Pay
Harvard Says Poor Parents Wont Have to PayFebruary 29, 2004By KAREN W. ARENSONAiming to get more low-income students to enroll, Harvardwill stop asking parents who earn less than $40,000 to makeany contribution toward the cost of their children'seducation. Harvard will also reduce the amount it seeksfrom parents with incomes between $40,000 and $60,000. "When only 10 percent of the students in elite highereducation come from families in the lower half of theincome distribution, we are not doing enough," saidLawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard, who willannounce the financial aid changes at a meeting of theAmerican Council on Education in Miami Beach today. Dr. Summers said that higher education, rather than beingan engine of social mobility, may be inhibiting it becauseof the wide gap in college attendance for students fromdifferent income classes. Harvard officials said they believed theirs would be thefirst selective college to remove the parental contributionfor low-income students, though some colleges do thisunofficially to attract students they want. At Harvard, the idea of eliminating the parentalcontribution grew out of focus groups with lower-incomestudents last fall. University officials found that many ofthe students were paying some or all of their parents'share themselves. Peter M. Brown, a junior from Oklahoma who participated inthe focus groups, said that was true for him. One of sevenchildren whose father died in 1991 and whose mother worksas a schoolteacher, he said he did not show his mother thebill for the parental contribution. Last year it was nearly $3,000. Only 7 percent of Harvard undergraduates are from familieswith earnings in the lowest quarter of American householdincomes, and 16 percent are from the bottom half. Nearlythree-quarters are from families with earnings in the topquarter. Dr. Summers said that the numbers at most other selectiveprivate colleges were similar. Harvard's tuition this year is $26,066. With room, board,books and other expenses, the total can reach $44,000.Harvard provides about $80 million in scholarship aid. Parents who earn less than $40,000 are now asked tocontribute an average of $2,300. That figure will drop tozero under the new plan, which begins in the fall. Parentswith incomes of $40,000 to $60,000 will have their contributions cut to an average of $2,250, from an average of $3,500. Students will still be expected to contribute by workingover the summer and in the school year. Harvard officials said they expected the new initiative tocost about $2 million next year and to help about 1,000 ofthe 6,600 undergraduates. As tuition and other costs at most colleges have risenfaster than family incomes have, students have increasinglyturned to loans. Harvard and other universities with large endowments havegiven more grants in recent years, reducing the amountstudents must borrow. Princeton has removed loans from itsaid packages for all students. Harvard has reduced loansbut allows students to use them to offset the amount ofwork they must do. This year, Harvard graduates will havean average debt of $8,800, compared with $14,600 in 1998. Mr. Brown, the junior, said his mother's entire salary waswell below the cost of a year at Harvard. In the past, hehas simply asked her what she felt she could contribute. "She'd give me a figure," he said. "It was not as much asthe school asked. I would say, `I really appreciate that,'and then I would make up the difference." He said he led a "spartan life" at school to save money.Besides spending about 10 hours a week on a federally subsidized campus job, he is always looking for other jobsor studies that pay participants. Under the new plan, he said, "I won't have to look everyweek for people who need boxes moved or other things." Brian K. Fitzgerald, staff director for the AdvisoryCommittee on Student Financial Assistance, said Mr. Brown'ssituation was not unusual. "Lots of kids, including middle-income kids, are making upthat parental expectation out of their own earnings," saidDr. Fitzgerald, whose committee advises Congress. Under federal financial aid programs, parents who earn lessthan $15,000 a year are not expected to contribute to theirchildren's college education; the advisory committee hasrecommended that that figure be raised to $35,000, or atleast $25,000. "The reality today is that in families earning $35,000,those parental contributions are simply not there," Dr.Fitzgerald said. Dr. Summers said that making college more affordable forlow-income, high-ability students would address only partof the problem. The more difficult challenge, he said, wasgiving lower-achieving, low-income students the supportthey need to qualify academically.He said Harvard would expand its recruitment oflower-income students. Harvard is also starting a summeracademy this year for high school students from low-income families. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/education/ -- FN Lugemwa Do
ugnet_: 1962 unworkable arrangement!
From the 1962 Constitution: (1) Uganda consists of Federal States, Districts and the territory of Busoga. (2) The Federal States are the Kingdom of Buganda, the Kingdom of Ankole, the Kingdom of Bunyoro, the Kingdom of Toro and the territory of Busoga. (3) The Districts are the Districts of Acholi, Bugisu, Bukedi, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Madi, Sebei, Teso and West Nile 2004 Fedsnet's 13 States model for an 'all-inclusive' Federal system Acholi Ankole Buganda Bugisu/Sebei Bukedi Bunyoro Busoga Karamoja Kigezi Lango Teso Toro West Nile www.federo.com FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail
ugnet_: Chemystery and Music- Parents/Educators
Is Music Good Cross-Training? Neuroscientists have detected a number of structural differences in the brains of musicians; these findings suggest that musical training can influence brain organization and ability. Several areas of the brain are larger in adults who play musical instruments than in non-musicians. These include areas such as the primary motor cortex and the cerebellum, which are involved in movement and coordination, as well as the corpus callosum, a large band of nerve fibers that links the two hemispheres of the brain. A larger proportion of the auditory cortex (which brings music and speech into conscious experience) responds to piano tones in adult musicians as compared with non-musicians. The earlier the age at which the musicians had begun lessons, the more enlarged the area. Follow-up research revealed that the brains of musicians are especially attentive to the sounds of the instruments they play a larger area of a violinists brain responds to hearing violin sounds than it does to hearing trumpet sounds, and vice versa. In trained violinists, the area of the somatosensory cortex (which interprets touch information) corresponding to the four fingers used to press down on violin strings is enlarged. Trained musicians tend to use more of the left, analytical half of the brains for processing music than non-musicians. Scientists are also studying whether the brain changes seen in musicians enhance mental functions not associated with musicin other words whether music serves as a kind of cross-training for the brain. Adults with musical training perform better on word memory tests than other adults. Preschoolers who have had piano lessons for about six months perform better than their counterparts on puzzle-solving tests. Second-graders who played special computer math games and took piano lessons scored higher on math tests than students who played the same computer games but had English language instruction rather than piano lessons. Children who had musical training for one to five years had significantly better verbal memory than schoolmates without such trainingand the longer the training, the better the verbal memory. The researchers suggest that music has a kind of cross-training effect: The extra stimulation from studying music to the left hemisphere of the brain, the side that handles language, boosts its ability to handle other left-hemisphere functions, such as verbal learning. Theres no way to tell if such studies have something to do with specific cognitive functions involved in music and math, said Tramo [Mark Jude Tramo, director, Harvard Medical School Institute for Music Brain Science]. Or they may relate to other so-called general purpose cognitive mechanisms like attention, memory, that are involved in language and all sorts of other cognitive activities. But they do suggest that music can tap into brain mechanisms involved in these other processes and con conceivably improve them. Joan Stephensen, PhD From : ACS's Award-Winning Publication Chemistry, Winter 2004 FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want.
ugnet_: Science A Must For Africa - Museveni
As long as insecurity, nepotism and tribalism flourish the brain drain will continue. Ed: You must have forgotten to include corruption! FN LugemwaEd Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we urge Universities and colleges to produce both local and internationally marketable jobs, the only way to stop (reduce) the brain drain is to create an atmosphere conducive to investors both local and foreign so that those who live those institutes of higher learning will find readily available jobs. As long as insecurity, nepotism and tribalism flourish the brain drain will continue. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:17 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: Science A Must For Africa - Museveni Science A Must For Africa - Museveni Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite New Vision (Kampala) February 2, 2004 Posted to the web February 2, 2004 Simon MugenyiKampala President Yoweri Museveni has stressed that science and technology is a must for African societies if they have to free themselves from the bondage of domination and backwardness. Museveni (right) was addressing graduands at the 10th graduation ceremony of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) on Saturday. Museveni, who was speaking as a visitor, said science constituted the basis of development, transformation, security and sovereignty of Uganda and Africa. He, however, said science could not adequately be promoted without sufficient remuneration to scientists. Last week education minister Dr. Khiddu Makubuya was quoted to have said that university students would soon be required to do sciences in their first year at the university to raise and sustain the quality of education. Museveni called for a stop to brain drain of scientists who leave the country for better-paying jobs. He said scientists would be retained by adequate remuneration. He called on universities to produce locally and internationally market-oriented graduates. Museveni was glad that MUST had started producing graduate nurses, who are marketable in Europe and other continents. He also urged universities to research on relevant areas including music and linguistic aspects. Relevant Links East Africa Uganda Science and Biotechnology Earlier, Museveni installed Professor Raphael Owor as the new Chancellor of MUST and congratulated him upon his appointment. He thanked the 227 graduands for their success. FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online
ugnet_: Education:The key to health in Africa--James K. Tumwine, MD
Education: The key to health in Africa 6 February 2004Source: New Scientist James K. Tumwine is an editor with a mission. An associate professor of paediatrics at Makerere University in Uganda, Tumwine launched the successful journal African Health Sciences as a vehicle for original African research. But his vision for the continent extends well beyond the science community. In this interview, Tumwine says that Africa's most pressing health issue is a lack of education. He saw this clearly when researching a cholera outbreak, and observing that a wealthy area of Kampala, populated by well-educated people, remained completely untouched. Tumwine cites malaria as another disease of the poor, failing to feature on the global agenda because it no longer affects the West. Africa, he says, must solve its own problems, and can only do it by investing in the minds of its people. Link to interview in New Scientist -- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online
ugnet_: Re: Re: With multi-party talks on hold, let us do federo
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/---BeginMessage--- Muky. Edith Kyeyune, When you get time visit www.federo.com and check out our FAQ. A response to your worries also follow. **Other UNAAnetters should check that site out because there are some candid answers there. Will federalism solve ALL Uganda's problems? No, federalism isnota panacea; it cannot and will not solve all problems. Indeed, it may sometimes create new ones or at least make them more obvious. Federalism however, has many virtues, not least letting people take more control over their own lives, better satisfying local preferences. Moreover, state governments can always utilize previously unused entrepreneurial and managerial resources and hence strengthen rather than weaken the overall level of administration and governance. "Small" may not always be beautiful, but it is more likely to reflect and yield what the local people really want. But I would like to hear more, especially how Ugandans will be identified for each "kingdom". For example if you are born in Fort Portal to Basoga parents, does that make you a mutooro, for matters of identification? You are a Musoga by ethnicity, but a resident of Torowho shall be eligibleto enjoy most benefits available to all Toro state residents. Shouldthe person born of Basoga parents in Toro decide to stay and grow up in Toro, chances are that person will be eligible to run for certain offices. What those offices shall be is to be determined by the state constitution of Toro at the right moment by the people of Toro. Here in the US, if you were born in California, you are a Californian. Strictly speaking,there is no such as a thing as Californian but American. You are born an American citizen irrespective of where and most rights and benefits are portable from state to state. The residency requirement applies to those born out of state simply because one has to pay taxes before s/he can enjoy certain state benefits [residency requirements do not apply when it comes to federal matters]. For example, one can move from CA to IL andjoin the federal service right away or the military but not the state militia or state public service. That said, some states have reciprocal arrangements especially neighboring states and we hope that will be the case in afuture federal Uganda. If later you move to Georgia, you become a resident after living there for a year. Residency .entitles to such things as in-state tution fees, state-provided scholarships etc. To prove your residency, you have to provide a mortgage note/security deed or a lease agreement; and also power/phone bills for at least one year. How is federo going to handle this critical issue? As of now there are no state schools in Uganda, but once federalism is fully implemented, these issues will be handled by the appropriate bodies. We can't say a priori how Toro, Buganda, Karamoja or Busoga will decide on specific issues. That is for the voters and leaders in those states to handle. Bear in mind why Federalism is being proposed: to move away from the one size fits all mentality. Issues of residency have much to do with paying taxes and enjoying attendant benefits. That is why Georgia imposes a year residency to those born outside of Georgia-you have to pay some taxes before you can start to claim state benefits. That is fair enough. It may as well be the case in Uganda with regards to certain services. There is nothing wrong with that because it is what federalism is all about. Obusingye, FN Lugemwa, http://successisthekey.tripod.com www.federo.com Kyeyune Kyeyune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Lugemwa,After reading your posting below, I started thinking that if something is too good to be true, it probably isn't true. How can federo be a panacea for everything that ails our country? The only cure-all I know of is snake oil. But I would like to hear more, especially how Ugandans will be identified for each "kingdom". For example if you are born in Fort Portal to Basoga parents, does that make you a mutooro, for matters of identification? Here in the US, if you were born in California, you are a Californian. If later you move to Georgia, you become a resident after living there for a year. Residency entitles to such things as in-state tution fees, state-provided scholarships etc. To prove your residency, you have to provide a mortgage note/security deed or a lease agreement; and also power/phone bills for at least one year. How is federo going to handle this critical issue?Thanks,Edith KyeyuneMessage: 4Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:48:20 -0800 (PST)From: Lugemwa FN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: With multi-party talks on hold, let us do federoThe EditorThe Monitor PublicationKampala, UgandaWith multi-party talks on hold, let us do federoby FN Lugemwae-m
ugnet_: With multi-party talks on hold, let us do federo
The Editor The Monitor Publication Kampala, Uganda With multi-party talks on hold, let us do federo by FN Lugemwa e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Working toward defining and establishing an "all-inclusive" federal system of governance is more pressing for Uganda at the moment than multi-party talks. Accordingly, a federo conference is urgently needed to discuss the future of our country. The specific focus of such conference, I suggest, would be to devise modalities for the devolution of power to, and defining the duties and responsibilities of, regional leaders. In short, defining a genuine and durable federal governance system and identifying key projects and drawing up a time-table for successful transition to such a system. Ugandans need to start serious discussions on genuine federalism whereby decentralized units would have autonomy and the attendant political and economic muscle in forms of powers and administrative tasks in such areas as raising revenue. History and it tends to repeats itself should be our teacher. Uganda had parties under Obote. No parties under the late Idi Amin. None of these two leaders was willing to hand over power peacefully and leave town. History could repeat itself in Uganda if there is truth to the talk around third term project, three more years,andthe third way. Obote and the late Idi Amin ruled Uganda under a unitary system with multi-parties and no parties, respectively. President Museveni has ruled it for almost 20 years under a one-party [movement] system. Ugandans must ask, why did Uganda get the same 'results' under Obote and the late Idi Amin and is about to get the similar 'results' under President Museveni, men with different backgrounds and education? The least common factor among them seems to be a unitary governance system. It seems like the unitary system has failed Uganda. Parties need to realize that without changing the structure of government from unitary to federo parties or no parties--Uganda is bound to remain the same a country riddled with power struggle, capable of only re-cycling leaders, and moving several steps backwards instead of forward. Federo is needed to deal with the complex power structure(s) in a multi-ethnic society. Once the question of federo has been settled, as per both the Odoki and Ssempebwa Commissions, Ugandans will decide which party is fit to be the first custodian of federo. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
ugnet_: 'Sciences a Must Up to University'
'Sciences a Must Up to University' Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite The Monitor (Kampala) January 29, 2004 Posted to the web January 29, 2004 Elias BiryabaremaMakerere University students will soon be required to do science and arts subjects in their first year, the Education minister has announced. Dr Khidu Makubuya said yesterday that students would have broader knowledge and make informed decisions when choosing their degree courses in second year. The move, the minister said, is part of several reforms to be introduced in the country's tertiary education to help "raise and sustain the quality of education and make it more relevant and broadly responsive to the needs and aspirations of society". The current system where students choose their courses before joining university tends to narrow their scope of knowledge and frustrates the development of multi-skilled personnel, Makubuya said while opening a two-day stakeholders workshop at Makerere University. "The system tends to be theoretical and examinations driven," he said. The new system, the minister said, will involve changing the syllabi and revise the teaching content to make them more flexible, practical and relevant. Rukungiri Woman MP Winnie Masiko also told her constituents recently that Parliament would soon pass a law making sciences compulsory at university. "Parliament will soon pass a law on education strategy so that science subjects are taught from primary level up to university level," she said in Rukungiri town. The workshop at Makerere brings together donors, parents, university administrators and government officials. Makubuya underscored the need for integration of information and communication technologies, saying it remains a major challenge for government and the education institutions alike. ICT, he said, should now become the major medium of teaching and learning in higher education. "Through electronic learning, one lecturer can attend to thousands of students spread across a number of universities, using high speed electronic networks and interactive multimedia technologies," said Makubuya, a former dean of the Faculty of Law at Makerere. Relevant Links East Africa Education Uganda Science and Biotechnology Government will introduce loan schemes to enable students from marginalised areas and those from poor families access university education. Additional notes by Patson Baraire FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
Re: ugnet_: New book highlights the plight of more than a million Ugandans
Thank you, Vukoni. FN Lugemwa[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New book highlights the plight of more than a million UgandansMichael, aged 25, was abducted by Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northernUganda. His captors beat him on the head with rifle-butts when he was nolonger able to carry their loot and left him for dead. Government soldiersfound him a week later. "Termites had started eating me alive," he recalls."They had begun building an anthill on my body."Michael's is one of many personal testimonies published in "When the sunsets, we start to worry...", a book launched on Thursday by the UN Officefor the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in conjunction with itsIntegrated Regional Information Networks. Using personal accounts andpowerful black-and-white photographs, "When the Sun Sets, We Start toWorry..." aims to draw attention to the plight of more than a millionUgandan children, women and men whose present existence encompasses a degreeof misery and horror seldom seen elsewhere. An electronic version of the book is available at:http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/northernuganda/default.asp This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
ugnet_: GM mosquito strategy for malaria suffers setback
GM mosquito strategy for malaria suffers setback Aedes aegypti Andrea Rinaldi21 January 2004Source: SciDev.Net Hopes of tackling diseases such as malaria by creating genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that resist parasite and viral infections have suffered a setback following new research confirming that such mosquitoes may be less able to survive than their normal counterparts. The findings come from a study of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits yellow fever and dengue, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, led by Nic Irvin from the University of California, United States, analysed how well GM mosquitoes were able to survive and reproduce compared to normal laboratory mosquitoes. They found that GM mosquitoes performed worse than their normal counterparts, indicating that GM mosquitoes would probably be poor competitors against naturally occurring strains of mosquito. This could hinder potential disease-control strategies that rely on releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild, as these depend on the GM strains being successful and spreading resistance to the disease throughout the population. The results back up a study published last year on a different type of mosquito Anopheles stephensi, which transmits malaria that also suggested that GM mosquitoes were less well able to survive than their normal counterparts (see GM mosquitoes not fit enough). According to Anthony James, a specialist in GM insect vectors at the University of California at Irvine, United States, however, the findings do not mean that GM mosquitoes cannot be used to combat human diseases. I do not see findings that transgenic insects are less fit than laboratory or wild-type mosquitoes to be a major challenge to the use of transgenics to control disease transmission, he says. I take it as a given that any [gene] inserted into the genome of a mosquito would [reduce the changes of survival of] that mosquito. He says that the study provides a good set of parameters by which to measure how well different types of GM mosquitoes can survive and reproduce. "Having these measurements will help in comparing different strains of genes, he adds. Link to abstract of research paper in PNAS by Nic Irvin et al - FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
ugnet_: Fwd: RA Recruitment Drive
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ugnet_: Fwd: RE: [FedsNet] RA Recruitment Drive
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/---BeginMessage--- Anne, can you please tell me the difference between the letter below and the message given out to Ugandans in 1962 when Uganda got indepedence, the message Amin sent out in 1971 when he took over power in a military coup, the message Ugandans got in 1979 when Amin was driven out and the message delivered to Ugandans in 1986 when Museveni took over from the Okellos? If the RA cannot offer something different, why are we wasting people's time and resources by calling for change? Why don't you folks simply work with NA instead of pretending that you are different? Answers please, not slogans!!! URGENT MEMORANDUM TO: Reform Agenda Supporters FROM: Hon. Reagan Okumu, Treasurer DATE: January 2004 SUBJECT: Reform Agenda Recruitment Drive The Reform Agenda is a leading political organization in Uganda. We seek to build an Organization with national character, which pursues the aspirations of the people by mobilising them for good governance, national unity, democracy and national development. We are guided by the principles of Democracy, Justice, Transparency and Accountability Our vision is to foster unity and national pride by building a confident country, respected regionally and internationally, where all persons enjoy equal political and economic opportunities, free of corruption and nepotism. Our mission is to build an organization with national character that will pursue the aspirations of the people of Uganda by mobilizing them for peace, national unity, freedom and sustainable development. We shall execute programsto champion reforms aimed at fostering accountability, civil liberties, justice, and democracy. We need your help and you can join us today and help us to realize these noble goals by responding to the enclosed urgent response form. Help us to keep hope alive in Uganda.Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FedsNet/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. To All,TheReform Agenda is in a big membership recruitment and Fundraising Drive world wide. If you are interested download the attached documents and return the response by mail. You may contact Anne Mugisha at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or RA officials using addresses indicated in the attachments.You may get more information online at:www.reformuganda.comAnne Mugisha Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the most of your high-speed experience. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FedsNet/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
ugnet_: Journal of Unpublished Papers
To the Editor The Monitor Publication Kampala, Uganda The Question of Vision and the Quest for Vision in Uganda by FN Lugemwa E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In his missive in the media two months ago on the question of a vision for Uganda, President Museveni challenged other Ugandans to also put their point forward using the same channels, have "a contention of ideas," and let the people decide on which and whose ideas best represent and articulate their perspectives on the Uganda they want. The rate at which Ugandans of all political persuasions and status, and both at home and abroad, responded to the challenge supports the President's view that "vision", a word he used over 20 times in his missive, is "a fundamental issue". I agree with him on this characterization. As stated in the video entitled "The Power of Vision," a nation without a vision is a candidate for extinction. In following the debate, I have sensed traces of uchungu (pain) in the tone of some of the contributions. Over all, however, the debate has, so far, been constructive, polite, even generous: the President and the Movement have been complimented where they deserve to be complimented; they have been reminded of mistakes and misdeeds that they seem to have forgotten, of promises they have made but not fulfilled, and of principles and vision they once preached but no longer practice and seem even to have abandoned. Above all, the debate is united by a strong passion for Uganda. As for substance specifically, the debate negates assertions bordering on arrogance, if not insult, that there is a "poverty of vision" in Uganda, that only the Movement has a vision for Uganda, that the vision of the Movement is monolithic, and that that vision is the only 'correct' vision in and for Uganda. In fact, the contributions offer viable alternative visions and ways for moving Uganda forward. To sum up with a fitting Luganda proverb, "Awakula ennume, tewakula emu." Such caliber of debate, if sustained, is what will move us forward in both redefining and rebuilding the Uganda we want. For a while, however, the fiery debate fizzled, at least going by its absence from the print media. It was not until the last week of December 2003 when a political heavy weight' Honorable Eriya Kategaya touched on the issue, prompting a rebuttal from the President, that the debate resurfaced. Then came media reports of the President's interview with Mr. Robin White of the BBC, broadcast on Christmas. According to The Monitor story on the interview in its edition of December 27, 2003 (see Discuss vision, not successor, says Museveni) the President wants "to settle the vision' question". In other words, let the debate on the vision continue. I want to respond to this invitation and challenge by the President, and contribute to the debate on behalf Fedsnet -- a virtual study group of mostly Ugandans in the Diaspora. First, though, I want to comment on an important but overlooked aspect of the debate which, if clarified, would enrich the debate and its purpose and intended outcome -- a politically stable, peaceful, economically and socially progressive, prosperous and better Uganda and, ultimately, the model for Africa. Still missing from the contributions is an effort to demystify the now popular word 'vision,' and its underlying assumptions, some unstated, informing the debate around a 'vision' for Uganda. The effort is worthwhile if Ugandans are not to be intimidated into silence, duped into thinking that probably there are a few 'chosen' individuals or groups with monopoly of a gene for coming up with vision (a 'vision gene') and, the 'correct' vision at that. Such thinking would have grave consequences for Uganda. Further, the effort should subsequently facilitate identification of the root causes of Uganda's problems and how to surmount them and achieve the 'Ugandan dream'. As a lay person not formally schooled in the theory and art of politics, I define the term vision' simply as a dream' of the times, a longing for, and a framework and road map to a future that is fundamentally different from but is better than the present. It is in this meaning of vision' that the President recently said, according to The Monitor report in his interview with Mr. White Robin, that he does not want "a situation where in 2040 Uganda is still a backward country." We can 'dream' as individuals, but whether we want to and can successfully pursue our 'dreams' individually or with the help of others, is a question of scale and magnitude of the stimulus for the 'dream'. The fact is, if we share our 'dream' with others particularly because of its magnitude, we may find others with the same or similar 'dream', team up with them, gain their support or neutralize them. Depending on the nature, scale and magnitude of the stimulus for the 'dream' and potential support for it, we may even create a formal group, a movement, or a political party. There are three
ugnet_: West Nile Gets Research Centre
West Nile Gets Research Centre Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite New Vision (Kampala) January 17, 2004 Posted to the web January 19, 2004 Ahmed AnguliboKampala West Nile has got a new multi-billion shilling plague control centre. The United States-based Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) rehabilitated the facility at $5,000 (about sh87m). Speaking at the hand over ceremony recently, UVRI acting director Dr. Miph Musoke said the laboratory was useful because most people only read plague in books. "This facility will assist in diagnosing various illnesses. The institution is going to get closer ties with medical institutions. In future it will become a rapid diagnostic centre," he said. Musoke said the centre would serve the five districts in the West Nile sub-region. He said it would start with Vurra and Okoro counties in Arua and Nebbi districts respectively where plague is rampant. Arua district health chairperson Sabo Kamilo said the district registered eight fatal plague cases in 2002 and 2003. Relevant Links East Africa Science and Biotechnology Health and Medicine Uganda Nebbi director of health services Dr. Sam Orach said the district registers about 200 cases yearly. He thanked and US government for the work. --- FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
ugnet_: New Vision: Makerere is a Mess -get rid of the dead wood in the admin!
.she will have to do an examination whose lecture she has never attended... Some possibilities Introduce 2 one-month intensive sessionsduring the holidays, June to September. That could create two short semesters similar to Summer School in the US. I have had students takethe intensivesecond semesterOrganic Chemistry in one month. All those reactions and mechanisms is suicide but theydo it! Offer off-campus courses at high schools at night. Start on-line courses FN Lugemwa Clashing lectures normal at Makerere EAGER TO PAY: Makerere University private students brave the sun and the long queue to pay their tuition fees --It is a hopeless situation especially in the faculty of Social Sciences where numbers are high Makerere University remains an icon in Uganda. However, high enrolment, a weak administration and poorly done timetables are wreaking havoc at the 82-year-old university reports Fortunate Ahimbisibwe As Namujju wakes up on a sunny Tuesday morning, she is not sure which of the two coinciding lecturers to attend. But after a few minutes of contemplation, she chooses to go for the one that is less congested. After all the lecture room is crowded, I will go for the one which is taken by less students, she says. So as she prepares to sit her examination in two weeks time, she will have to do an examination whose lecture she has never attended, not because she is the type that cuts lectures but because either way, she has to miss one of the two. Namujju has to rely on her friend in the other congested lecture room for notes. Similarly, her friend, Martha will rely on hers. Alternatively, she will have to switch at the end of one hour. In the middle of the hour, I may choose to go and attend the other lecture in the remaining one hour, Namujju says. Although it is unacceptable under the universitys regulations to miss lectures, it has now become acceptable because of the prevailing circumstances; the ever-increasing number of students. With 22,650 private students, it has become very difficult for the university to operate without numerous obstacles. The planning department is currently reviewing the whole system which largely needs overhauling, says an official of the universitys planning department. Namujju and hundreds of other students at Makerere have become victims of the universitys growth and expansion. They have to miss a lecture at the expense of another. This is because of the crash programme that the university operates as the issue of overwhelming numbers soars at the countrys leading 82-year-old university. In the Faculty of Social Sciences, which has over 4,000 students, its very difficult to make a timetable for all the subjects offered, according to reliable sources. There is normally a big problem because students go through a dilemma of having two lectures at the same time. At times, there is nothing we can do about it, says an official in the faculty who chose anonymity. If I reveal my name, I will be in trouble, because this issue has become a big challenge, he says. But he insists that this only happens on elective subjects not the majors. He adds: In cases where it is possible, we advise the students to leave out certain subjects if they cant afford to keep switching or depending on friends for notes. A student, however, says: On Thursdays, I have Gender and Philosophy at the same time for two hours. One hour I go to the Department of Gender and the other hour I rush to JICA Building. Its an inconvenience. Elisha Obela, Deputy Academic Registrar, Admissions, agrees that the universitys expansion, particularly the increase in student number has been noted with concern. It is true that the number of students has increased and continues to grow. As a university, we are examining our policies. All this is in an effort address what may be our undoing, he says. With enrolment at 30,000, the university is finding it difficult to cope. Obela says: The university has a lot of demand. We cannot lock out Ugandans. We would rather stretch ourselves but give more opportunities to more people. However, another university official says guardedly: It is almost a hopeless situation. We are facing a very big challenge. If the numbers continue to increase at this rate, there is going to be a big problem that can even compromise a certain standard. According to the statistics of the undergraduate students released recently, enrolment has been rapidly increasing since 1991/92 w hen the private scheme was introduced. In 1998/99, 10,219 students were admitted, 1999/2000, 14,316, 2000/01 13, 293, 2001/02 15,8000. Enrolment now stands at 30,226 of whom 22,650 are private. Despite this, Makerere still remains the first choice for many students and their parents. Namujju and others will therefore try to muddle through the situation. If some students are ready and have the money to pay, the university cannot stop them, after all we need the
ugnet_: CELLULAR U-TURN--Chemystery!
She is 70 today, she will be '69' next year!fnl REGENERATIVE MEDICINE CELLULAR U-TURNSmall molecule induces cells to revert to progenitor cells CELIA HENRY Scientists at Scripps Research Institute have identified a synthetic small molecule that can turn differentiated cells back into progenitor cells. The molecule, dubbed reversine, represents a first step toward regenerative medicine. REGENERATION Reversine causes mouse muscle cells to dedifferentiate into progenitor cells that can then redifferentiate into fat or bone cells. COURTESY OF SHENG DINGOrganisms such as salamanders that regrow their damaged tails use cellular dedifferentiation as part of the tissue regeneration process. Extracts from the regenerating limbs of amphibians previously have been shown to induce mammalian cells to dedifferentiate. Such extracts are essentially cocktails, however, and nobody knows what molecules actually induce the process or the mechanism by which dedifferentiation proceeds. Although the signaling pathway for dedifferentiation is unknown, kinases (enzymes that catalyze phosphorylation) are thought to be involved. Therefore, the Scripps team, led by assistant chemistry professor Sheng Ding and chemistry professor Peter G. Schultz, screened a combinatorial library composed of heterocyclic compounds that might be expected to interact with kinases. The team found reversine, a synthetic substituted purine that can by itself induce dedifferentiation on a type of muscle cell known as a myoblast [J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 410 (2004)]. Reversine works specifically with mouse myoblast cells to turn them into multipotent progenitor cells that can differentiate into a variety of cells, such as fat, bone, muscle, or cartilage. Mouse cells were first treated for four days with each of 50,000 different compounds to induce dedifferentiation. The dedifferentiated cells were then assayed for their ability to differentiate into bone cells or fat cells in the presence of known osteogenic- or adipogenic-inducing agents. The researchers don't know whether the progenitor cells they form have the same molecular signature as those that are formed naturally, which are known as mesenchymal stem cells, but they know that the cells have similar abilities to form different cell types. Every cell type will probably require a different molecule to induce dedifferentiation. "Different cells have distinct molecular signatures and microenvironments," Ding notes. "We don't believe there is one such molecule that can work in every cell type." The team is currently trying to find molecules that cause dedifferentiation in other cell types. Ding sees small molecules like reversine as a significant step toward regenerative medicine. "Stem cells can be used to generate a variety of cell types, but there are problems facing the practical use of stem cells, including methods for controlling their proliferation and differentiation, as well as cell sources and the rejection problem," he says. "We think that small molecules that can induce dedifferentiation of differentiated tissue represent an alternative approach to regenerative medicine." Potentially, easily accessible cells could be harvested, dedifferentiated, and then redifferentiated into less accessible cell types. Shannon J. Odelberg of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, one of the scientists who initially reported that amphibian extracts can cause mammalian cells to dedifferentiate, calls the work "quite significant" both in its confirmation of previous work and the new avenues that it opens. Odelberg points out that the work suggests ways to generate a large supply of progenitor cells in vitro. He believes that with more research, such approaches may lead to a way to promote regeneration in mammals through in vivo cellular dedifferentiation. Now, Ding and his coworkers are studying the process of dedifferentiation and the mechanism of action of reversine. "If we can figure out the binding partner of this molecule, then we can probably figure out the signaling pathway," he says. "If we have a defined protein target, we can further optimize this molecule. We can apply other approaches to that pathway that can improve the efficiency of dedifferentiation." Top Chemical Engineering NewsCopyright © 2004 American Chemical Society Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
ugnet_: Job opportunity: Director of Research and Training
Director of Research and Training Organisation: African Technology Policy Studies Network Location: Nairobi, Kenya Closing Date: 31 January 2004The African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) is a leading regional network of African scholars and policymakers engaged in research, capacity building and policy advocacy on issues of science and technology for Africa's sustainable development. Its mission is to improve the quality of science and technology policies for poverty eradication. Working through National Chapters in at least 22 African countries, ATPS supports research, training and related activities on topical and emerging science and technology policy issues such as biotechnology, information and communication technologies, technology transfer, science policy among ot hers. Its secretariat is in Nairobi, Kenya. ATPS has been accorded an international status by the government of Kenya. ATPS is recruiting a Director of Research and Training to be based at its secretariat. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Research and Training will be responsible for providing overall intellectual and administrative leadership to the development and implementation of research, capacity building and policy advocacy programmes. His/her specific duties will include: - Generating and translating new concepts and research ideas into projects and/or programmes;- Developing proposals and raising funds for the implementation of projects and/or programmes;- Managing the small grants process as well as the regional research programmes;- Developing and implementing strategies for promoting the work of the network; and particularly establishing dynamic policy outreach and advocacy processes with a ll National Chapters; - Representing the Executive Director at meetings with donors, conferences and various forums to promote the work of the network; - Ensuring that results of all ATPS research meet minimum acceptable international standards by organising and managing appropriate peer review mechanisms; - Organising training workshops and related activities to strengthen the capacity of ATPS National Chapters and their members, and the other policy and private sector constituents; - Ensuring efficient and effective collaboration with ATPS international, regional and national partners; and - Develop and strengthen collaboration with the private sector and civil society including the media; and - Publishthree technopolicy briefs in a year. Candidate requirementsThe Director must be anAfrican andmust possess a doctorate degree in social or n atural sciences and at leastfour years' research/research management experience in issues of science and technology policy. Ideal candidates should be able to work independently, have team spirit, sharp analytical skills, demonstrated fundraising capacity and ability to manage knowledge networks. Proficiency in French language will be a major plus. A competitive international salary will be offered. Contact details Please respond by 31 January 2004 to: The Executive Director,African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS),3rd Floor, The Chancery Building,Valley Road, P.O. Box 10081 00100 General Post Office Nairobi, Kenya Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
ugnet_: Why then a Referendum?
Mr. Kironde, If President Museveni remains noncommittal on the issue, the MPs should do what the referendum is supposed to do because it is much cheaper. But it seems parliament 'cannot' handle such a hot issue! FN Lugemwa Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks FN Lugemwa Cant an act of parliament suffice? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:10 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: Why then a Referendum? Because power belongs to the people whoDID not make it to the CRC office,to present their views!! FN Lugemwa Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7.14.3 We have carefully considered all the arguments made in favour of indefinite eligibility to the office of the President. We are not satisfied that enough justifications exist for removing the two term limit. We have given reasons in response to the arguments. We have also taken into account the fact that: the experience, concerns and fears behind the limit are still valid; there appears no real likelihood of constitutional disruption if the current position is maintained; the people who recognise their power under the constitution decided for good reasons on all the parameters for the exercise of power. The provision has not been tested .. Ssempebwas CRCEd Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
ugnet_: RE: Why then a Referendum?
referendum might need 40/-b plus Mr. Kironde, A chunk of that money could be used to clear part of the mess at Makerere, or train a few graduate students. FN Lugemwa Clashing lectures normal at Makerere EAGER TO PAY: Makerere University private students brave the sun and the long queue to pay their tuition fees. Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the referendum might need 40/-b plus the Electoral Commission is broke, then the elections in 2006, then financing about 50 political parties, the war in the North modernizing the military peace talks, political talks, buying off (or otherwise) of political opponents etc Who is footing the bill? Now the court martial on army ghosts -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:06 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: RE: Why then a Referendum? If President Museveni remains noncommittal on the issue, the MPs should do what the referendum is supposed to do because it is much cheaper. But it seems parliament 'cannot' handle such a hot issue! FN Lugemwa Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks FN Lugemwa Cant an act of parliament suffice? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lugemwa FNSent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:10 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ugnet_: Why then a Referendum? Because power belongs to the people whoDID not make it to the CRC office,to present their views!! FN Lugemwa Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7.14.3 We have carefully considered all the arguments made in favour of indefinite eligibility to the office of the President. We are not satisfied that enough justifications exist for removing the two term limit. We have given reasons in response to the arguments. We have also taken into account the fact that: the experience, concerns and fears behind the limit are still valid; there appears no real likelihood of constitutional disruption if the current position is maintained; the people who recognise their power under the constitution decided for good reasons on all the parameters for the exercise of power. The provision has not been tested .. Ssempebwas CRCEd Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.5558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.5558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
Re: ugnet_: Happy Kwanzaa: Long (L)!
Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga, Happy New year to you too. Long time..! Thank you for theinsight and some education about the FrontPage magazine. I don't read the that publication; someone shared the article with me via e-mail--but I would likeresearch Comrade Karenga's inner circle. FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
ugnet_: Happy Kwanzaa: Long (L)!
Happy KwanzaaBy Paul MulshineFrontPageMagazine.com | December 26, 2002On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among AfricanAmericans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certainsixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of sevenpeople.Great minds think alike. The inventor of the holiday was one of the fewblack "leaders" in America even worse than Sharpton. But there was nomention in the Ti mes article of this man or of the fact that at that very moment he was sitting in a California prison. And there was no mention of the curious fact that this purported benefactor of the black people had founded an organization that in its short history tortured and murdered blacks in ways of which the Ku Klux Klan could only fantasize.It was in newspaper articles like that, repeated in papers all over thecountry, that the tradition of Kwanzaa began. It is a tradition not out of Africa but out of Orwell. Both history and language have been bent toserve a political goal. When that New York Times article appeared, RonKarenga's crimes were still recent events. If the reporter had bothered to do any research into the background of the Kwanzaa founder, he might have learned about Karenga's trial earlier that year on charges of torturing two women who were members of US (United Slaves), a black nationalist cult he had founded.A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."Back then, it was relatively easy to get information on the trial. Nowit's almost impossible. It took me two days' work to find articles about it. The Los Angeles Times seems to have been the only major newspaper that reported it and the stories were buried deep in the paper, which now is available only on mi crofilm. And the microfilm index doesn't start until 1972, so it is almost impossible to find the three small articles that cover Karenga's trial and conviction on charges of torture. That is fortunate for Karenga. The trial showed him to be not just brutal, but deranged. He and three members of his cult had tortured the women in an attempt to find some nonexistent "crystals" of poison. Karenga thought his enemies were out to get him.And in another lucky break for Karenga, the trial transcript no longerexists. I filed a request for it with the Superior Court of Los Angeles. After a search, the court clerk could find no record of the trial. So the exact words of the black woman who had a hot soldering iron pressed against her face by the man who founded Kwanzaa are now lost to history. The only document the court clerk did find was particularly revealing, however. It was a transcript of Karenga's sentencing hearing on Sept. 17,1971.A key issue was whether Karenga was sane. Judge Arthur L. Alarcon read from a psychiatrist's report: "Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed, stating that there was someone there and implying indirectly that the 'someone' was a woman imprisoned with him for some offense. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment."The founder of Kwanzaa paranoid? It seems so. But as the old saying goes, just because you're paranoid it do esn't mean that someone isn't out to get you.ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, Karenga's real name is Ron N. Everett. In the '60s, he awarded himself the title "maulana," Swahili for "master teacher." He was born on a poultry farm in Maryland, the fourteenth child of a Baptist minister. He came to California in the late 1950s to attend Los Angeles Community College. He moved on to UCLA, where he got a Master's degree in
