[Ugnet] The state of inter-ethnic relations in Uganda on the Movement watch, etc

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Hoping for a non- Muganda cardinal

 

AS we wait in joyful anticipation for the coming of Jesus, all Ugandans and beyond are also anxiously waiting for the appointment of a cardinal who is not a Muganda.

Like the popes from Italy, the coming of another Muganda cardinal will only raise the temperature about the strategic position of Italy and Kampala archdiocese as the only source of popes and cardinals respectively.

All power comes from God. For the sake of my faith and unity in the Church, if it is possible, let the cup pass a to Muganda, but if Gods will is otherwise, then let it be done.

Fred Mukama Asiimwe
Kampala

Sunday Vision, 23rd April, 2006

 

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Bunyoro Kingdom Rejects New Kagadi District

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
April 21, 2006

By Francis Mugerwa
Kibaale

 

Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has opposed the government's proposal to curve a new district out of Kibaale.

In a Monday press statement signed by the kingdom's publicist, Mr Henry Ford Mirima, the kingdom declined to embrace President Yoweri Museveni's pledge to create Kagadi district.

During his campaign trail at Kagadi playground in Kibaale district in February, Museveni announced the creation of Kagadi district with its headquarters in Kagadi town council.

He said the district would constitute Buyaga county, but he did not specify when the new district would become operational.

 

"The creation of the new district is not only untimely, but also not an immediate need for the kingdom's subjects in Kibaale," Mirima said.

"Their most pressing need is to acquire land and land titles which they currently lack."

 

"Most residents are either landless or squatters on their own land. Most land in Buyaga and Bugangaizi counties is held by Baganda absentee landlords to the chagrin of the indigenous Banyoro."

 

He said the kingdom's subjects (lawful and bonafide tenants) want the injustice rectified by acquiring land titles before the new district becomes operational.

"The kingdom also wants the government to first regulate the excessive flow of migrants to Kibaale who are bent on dominating the politics of the district to the disillusionment of the indigenous Banyoro," Mirima said. He said the loss of parliamentary seats by Mr Ignatius Besisira (Buyaga) and Dr Kasirivu Atwooki (Bugangayizi) to Mr Barnabas Tinkasimire and Ms Marble Bakeine (Bakiga) was a confirmation of the kingdom's fear.

 

"The kingdom appreciates government's efforts in improving service delivery to its subjects in the newly created Kagadi district. However, the government's good intentions in this respect may not benefit the subjects if their interests are not safeguarded before the new district becomes operational," Mirima said.

In the statement, Mirima said the indigenous Banyoro want the government to first implement the provisions of the 1964 Referendum Act before the new district is created. During the referendum, the Banyoro voted in support of returning the lost counties of Buyaga and Bugangaizi that were given Buganda by the British colonialists.

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Measles High in Buganda Region

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
April 20, 2006
Posted to the web April 19, 2006

By Jane Nafula
Kampala

THE Ministry of Health has intensified routine immunisation in Kampala and its neighbouring districts following an outbreak of measles in the area.

The Director General of Health services, Dr Sam Zaramba, on Tuesday said cases of measles had been identified in the districts of Kampala, Mpigi, Kayunga, Mityana, Luweero, Wakiso and Nakasongola with Kampala registering the highest cases.

Zaramba said the ministry had stepped up the campaign to reverse the situation and save lives.

He said the ministry would conduct a countrywide immunisation campaign against the diseases in October.

Measles can lead to death, brain damage or blindness if not treated immediately.

It is infectious and affects children who have not completed immunisation dozes.

Symptoms

Some of the symptoms of measles include; a skin rash, red eyes, a cough, fever, and a running nose.

Zaramba said measles is rampant in Buganda region due to low immunisation coverage estimated at 70 per cent.

"For a region to be disease free, the routine immunisation coverage should be above 85per cent," he said.

He appealed to parents to cooperate with the minisry officials and take children for immunisation against the six killer diseases which include, measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis and diptheria.

 

Measles Strikes Seven Districts

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
April 19, 2006
Posted to the web April 19, 2006

By Timothy Makokha
Kampala

THE Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed that measles has struck Kampala, Nakasongola, Kayunga, Mityana, Mpigi, Wakiso and Luweero districts. Other districts that have suffered bouts of measles in the past include Mbarara, Arua and Kasese. Dr Sam Zaramba, the director of Health Services, recently said there are increasing cases of measles in the country. He said 15 cases have been reported in the first quarter of 2006 whereas only six were reported in 2005.

 

MoH has been providing measles immunisation through UNEPI for over 20 years. However, measles has still made it to the fourth commonest cause of illness in Uganda.

 

Incidence

A Centre for Disease Control (CDC) report, New Measles Genotype, Uganda authored in October last year says annually, over 57,000 children suffer from measles countrywide, with 3,000 deaths. Some 93% of these cases occur among children below 15 years and 7% among children above 15 years. In Africa, about 450,000 deaths - more than half the deaths -are caused by measles every year. Red Cross estimates that 1,200 children die everyday as a result of measles.

 

According to MoH, between 10% and 30% of the children who contract measles die of the disease and many of those who survive get disabilities such as blindness and deafness.

 

Why the return

Zaramba attributes the increase to a decline in routine immunisation.

CDC attributes it to inadequate coverage of immunisation. While MoH data indicates that the coverage of measles vaccination up to last year had risen to 83% from 74% in 2002, the CDC report says this coverage still falls short of the required coverage of 95%.

 

The danger

Zaramba warns that measles is highly infectious, especially to children under five years who have not completed immunisation. He says measles causes a rash, fever, cough, red eyes and running nose. Other visible signs include red lips, peeling of the skin and difficulty in breathing.

"This leads to pneumonia and infection of the brain, resulting in brain damage, blindness and death," Zaramba says. Measles can also make a child susceptible to secondary infections such as diarrhoea.

 

Measles in adults

While measles is more common in children, it is more severe in adolescents and young adults.

 

Following a marked increase in adult measles in Uganda in 2001, MoH recommended adults vaccinations. Dr. Oladapo Walker, the then WHO representative, said adult measles was increasing worldwide. Walker said people needed to be immunised again after some years.

 

Herbal treatment

Dr Maud Kamatenesi-Mugisha, an ethno-medicine specialist and lecturer in the Department of Botany, Makerere University, says herbal plants can also fasten the recovery from measles. Kamatenesi says most of the plants used boost the body's immunity to fight secondary illnesses brought about by measles.

She recommends phyllanthus (omuturika), a plant found in western Uganda, to help bring out the rash quickly. "Pound the leaves and use the solution to bathe and drink. This induces a skin rash, a process through which foreign elements are expelled from the body.".

 

There is also shagamanungi. Its sap is squeezed from the leaves, mixed with ghee and applied on the body. "This also helps the body to expel foreign elements from the system through a skin rash," she says.

 

Kamatenesi says mushroom also boosts the body immunity. "Boil the mushroom with ghee and eat. Mushroom also heals internal wounds caused by measles," she says. Garlic served in food also fights fungal infections that could take advantage of the lowered body immunity due to measles.

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