RUREKYERA GEOFREY

THE BANYANKOLE, A TRIBE FROM HEAVEN   The Banyankore are a Bantu group. They initially inhabited the districts of Mbarara, Bushenyi, and Ntungamo before the creation of other districts. They currently inhabit other districts like Buhweju, Ibanda, Kiruhura, Kazo, Isingiro and Mitooma in western Uganda. They are also found in other areas of Uganda due to inland migrations. People from the present counties of Rujumbura and Rubabo in Rukungiri District share the same culture, though they are politically considered under Kigezi.  Originally, Ankole was known as Kaaro- Karungi and the word Nkore is said to have been adopted during the 17th century following the devastating invasion of Kaaro-Karungi by Chawaali, the then Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara.  The word Ankole was introduced by British colonial administrators to describe the bigger kingdom which was formed by adding to the original Nkore, the former independent kingdoms of Igara, Sheema, Buhweju and parts of Mpor...

            THE VOICE When the architect of your foundation Sought for help,  He was signing a bond On which the posterity was to rejoice,  In his efforts ecstasy.    I still cry and clamour   For the tears we shed for the pain    Inflicted on you,  So we shed for the pain you inflict unto us  This unending weep is for you South Africa,    The once oppressed a people, quickly you forget the frontlines    Ecstatically it was when you claimed victory     Over the infamous apartheid animosity,      Castigating the swine-like Botha.   How shameful it is then,   That ‘You can lower a white statue of a dead man,  But never can slap a live one’ (Robert Mugabe) But angrily inflict pain on your next door neighbours-Africans, For they are foreigners. When my eyes see,  I see his ghost in protest, ...

 Uganda, was and is, in allusion to Winston Churchill, The Pearl of Africa' . However with the current systematic episodical political unfoldings, it is rather becoming "The Peril of Africa".  For let us face the reality, considering our black history, the Kaguta Constitution 1995, provided a good hatchet burying plan, and ensured the country went back to the right course. The 1994 constituency Assembly members(1994) were indeed sobre minded Ugandans, who in a telescopic frenzy, sought to assure the future path would be straight. Indeed we credit them, needless to say is that, the far we are today, hinges on what they enacted in the law then. However, something is not right after twenty two years that supreme and mighty law of the land was promulgated. The hygiene,in this case, the  lack of respect for a sailor's campass has led us to abyss. When the architects of this constitution sought of including the age limit in the constitution, they knew it would help the ...

American authorities have approved an experimental drug for emergency use on coronavirus patients, as more US states eased pandemic lockdowns despite another spike in deaths from the disease. The approval is the latest step in a global push to find viable treatments and a vaccine for the coronavirus, which has left half of humanity under some form of lockdown, hammered the world economy and infected more than 3.3 million people. Remdesivir, an antiviral drug initially developed to treat Ebola, was given the green light on Friday after a major trial found that it boosted recovery in serious COVID-19 patients. "It's really a very promising situation," President Donald Trump said on Friday at the White House, where he was joined by Daniel O'Day, CEO of Gilead Sciences, which developed Remdesivir. The drug incorporates itself into the virus's genome, short-circuiting its replication process. Its approval came as the US leaders struggled with growing...

Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies(MDAs have asked the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters to recommend for the formation of a joint physical planning unit where they will coordinate, plan and budget for their activities in respect to Land Acquisition for Government projects. According to Civil Society Organisations advocating for Land Rights, MDA's have a tendancy of being disorganized, uncoordinated, when acquiring land for government and end up disenfranchising land owners of their rightful compensation. The Executive Director Uganda Land Alliance Aligiresia Akwi Ogojo says MDA's carry out work independently and separately even though they are undertaking activities in the same area involving the same community at different times which result in double compensation and  wastage of resources. This during an engagement between the seven member commission chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire and the MDAs at Serena Hotel-Kigo,  on exploring exp...

Hearing of the case in which a Rwandese National Moses Ishimwe  Rutare is accused of illegal entry and Stay in Uganda, has been pushed to Friday 5th this Week due to the abscence of the trial  Magistrate who is reportedly on leave. Rutare a tall, slim brown man was today supposed to start his trial before Grade One Magistrate Angura Fionah Shiella having been granted bail last month which he has actually honoured by reporting to Court with his Lawyer Daniel Walyemera. Prosecution alleges that 33year old Rutare a resident of zone 6 Nadiope Road in Mbuya-Nakawa Division, at unknown date in 2018, and  unknown Border post unlawfully entered Uganda without an entry permit certificate of permanent residence or pass issued under the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Act. Its further alleged that on 22nd/December/2018 at Luthuli Avenue Bugolobi in Nakawa Division, Rutare stayed in Uganda without a Certificate of Permanent Residence or a pass issued under the Uganda Citizenshi...