Day: April 27, 2022

Residents of Ssanje, Kalisizo, Kyotera, Mutukula, Kasensero and Masaka town were treated to an exciting weekend after unexpectedly getting lots of gifts from Fortebet. All the punters that were found at the branch at least received one of the gifts from Fortebet. These gifts included phones, wrist bands, pens, caps, T-shirts and team jerseys for the favorite European clubs. The gifts were given out inside the branches by Fortebet’s media manager, John Nanyumba. “We have visited you before and we gave you gifts. We are back again to do the same and we shall keep coming back. We do this because we feel you are very special because you have made Fortebet the number one betting company in Uganda,” Nanyumba said shortly before the gifts handover at Kyotera branch. In addition, bodaboda rider...

The NRM party director for mobilization, Rosemary Nansubuga Sseninde has agreed with the leadership of Kampala market that it is high time they helped the vendors tackle poverty. Meeting vendors and leaders in the Bugolobi market, Sseninde said fighting poverty is an individual initiative, noting that it takes one to find ways of lifting themselves from poverty before the government can assist them. “Poverty has always been here before even all of us were born. Even in the Bible, poverty is talked about. It is however everyone’s initiative to find ways of dealing with it. The role of government is to provide an enabling environment like it has done now to ensure you can come to the market and work and earn something. In that regard, the government has put in place programs like the Parish ...

R esearch findings released today by World Animal Protection has laid bare the most damaging human health impacts linked to industrial livestock production systems, including emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), increased zoonotic pathogens and rising human illnesses from consumption of livestock derived foods containing food safety hazards in Africa. The report, The Hidden Health Impacts of Industrial Livestock Systems, exposes how governments around the world are turning a blind eye to the public health toll of factory farming as well as the suffering of billions of farmed animals. The report builds on the concept of five pathways “through which food systems negatively affect our health” as outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in their 2021 report Food Systems Deliveri...