Day: September 22, 2023

Libya’s flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from the coastal city after the Mediterranean Storm Daniel lashed the area on September 10. It razed entire neighbourhoods, sweeping untold thousands of people into the sea. The official death toll stands at more than 3,300 — but the eventual count is expected to be far higher, with international aid groups giving estimates of up to 10,000 people missing. “An estimated 43,059 individuals have been displaced by the floods in northeastern Libya,” the IOM said, adding that a “lack of water supply is reportedly driving many displaced out of Derna” to other...

Police have exhumed for proper burial, the body of the school director who was killed in a guesthouse in Nansana. The body of Godwin Ninsiima, 47, the owner of Victoria Secondary School in Nansana who was killed early this month and body dumped in a bush under mysterious circumstances in Kakiri, 18 kilometres away was on Thursday exhumed after a DNA test matched with those of the relatives. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango said at first, Kansiime’s body was buried in a cemetery in Bukasa since no one had claimed it, noting that after relatives appeared, they were subjected to a DNA test. “Since the body had been buried in a cemetery waiting for relatives, when they appeared, we took DNA samples from them and from the body. Results have come out showing the samples ...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged the people of Tororo District to join the money economy in order to fight poverty. “We have told you, please working only for the stomach is not good. You must all join the money economy because you have got needs of the stomach and non-stomach needs. So how will you solve the non-stomach needs like education if you are looking at only the stomach?” President Museveni noted. The President who was accompanied by the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni, made the appeal today as they commissioned a Church and a two-classroom block at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and Siwa Primary School respectively at Siwa Sub County, West Budama, Tororo District. The facilities were donated by Tororo Cement Ltd. The President inform...