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By CNN Last year, Facebook-parent Meta effectively pushed back its timetable for rolling out end-to-end encryption by default across its various social platforms, with an executive saying the privacy-enhancing change would not happen until sometime in 2023. The delay came under a new spotlight this week after news broke that Facebook messages sent through Messenger and obtained by law enforcement had been used to charge a Nebraska teen and her mother with having an illegal abortion. The case began before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, and Meta said the search warrant it received did not mention…

BY MICHAEL MUTYABA Last month, one of the longest standing features of Uganda’s political landscape crumbled as President Yoweri Museveni signed an historic “cooperation agreement” with the country’s oldest opposition party. The pact between the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Democratic Party (DP) is purportedly aimed at ensuring collaboration on matters of constitutional importance. Norbert Mao, the leader of the DP, was immediately appointed as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. This development is the latest example of Museveni’s long-established pattern of co-opting opposition figures into government. Many pundits have responded to it by speaking of the 77-year-old president’s exceptional shrewdness…

By NATION AFRICA Four officials of the electoral agency, who were found holding a meeting at the home of a former member of the county assembly (MCA) aspirant in Homa Bay, in western Kenya, have been fired. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) showed the officials the door for committing an election offence. Homa Bay County IEBC returning officer Fredrick Apopa said the officials were wrong to attend the meeting. “You cannot be in a meeting with politicians when the law requires you to be neutral,” he said. Mr Apopa said the officials were reported to have been meeting…

By Edrine Wanyama The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) has made a submission on emerging concerns from the proposed Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022 (the Bill) to the Parliamentary Committee on Information and Communications Technology. In its submission, CIPESA analyses the changes proposed by the Bill which are a blow to online civil liberties in Uganda. The private members Bill is seeking to amend the Computer Misuse Act of 2011and argues that existing laws “do not specifically address regulation of information sharing on social media” or are “not adequate to deter the vice”. The objectives of the amendment are:…

By Godfrey Tinka Patriotism is the core value of National Resistance Movement (NRM) government. It was President Museveni’s original mission which lead to establishing the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) in 1980. Which gave birth to NRM, that is now in government.  But after fourty two years of President Museveni efforts on patriotism, you can hardly find any fruits of his efforts across the country.  I was so heartbroken when I travelled the villages of Napak and Moroto districts and found people dying of starvation. I carried in my  hands four grandmothers to the hospital for treatment and all the doctor…

By Flavian Mwasi You don’t have to be born smart to make it in life. Learn to differentiate between assets and liabilities and how to avoid accumulating liabilities. If you don’t, you’ll still be spending your money on worthless liabilities in your 30s, 40s, and 50s. Take care of yourself when you’re still in your 20s. A time will come when you can’t stretch yourself without feeling pain. Make sure you eat well and eat healthy food to avoid getting an irreversibly shapeless body when you’re in your 30s, 40s, and 50s. Don’t waste your time trying to look like…

By Godfrey Tinka There has been a deliberate move by President Yoweri Museveni’s government to promote sciences. It started with making all science subjects compulsory in secondary School and now has graduated to paying science teachers better. Does Uganda need only Scientist to Develop? Would science without arts make meaningful development? Has any country development by just focusing only on science? Shouldn’t we rather encourage every child to excel at his or her best? I personally studied Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering and after college I started a sole proprietorship business. My services included installation, maintaining and repair of fridges air-conditioning, cold…

Because society doesn’t like smart people, they are seen as weird, freaks, proud, arrogant, mysterious, and many people are jealous of a smart person who makes it known that they are smart. Notice, it’s never the smart kid bullying the dumb kid, it’s almost always the dumb kids bullying the smart kid. Also, smarter people are generally introverts. Some studies show a strong correlation between intelligence and introversion. That’s not to say that smarter people are always introverts or that all introverts are smart but there is a correlation. Anyway, smarter people value privacy. They generally only show their true…

The sanctions have badly hit Mali, with its economy already under severe strain from military coups and a decade-long jihadist insurgency. Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers agreed to return to civilian rule by March 2024 and published a new electoral law. ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou told a news conference that the sanctions will be lifted immediately. Borders with Mali will reopen and regional diplomats will return to Bamako. “However, the heads of state decided to maintain individual sanctions, and the…

By VOA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to win back territory with the help of advanced weapons after his forces withdrew from Lysychansk, the last remaining Ukrainian-held territory in the eastern Luhansk province. In his nightly address Sunday, Zelenskyy said Russia was focusing its firepower on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, and that Ukrainian forces would respond with long-range weapons supplied by Western allies such as the U High Mobility Artillery Rocket System from the United States. “The fact that we protect the lives of our soldiers, our people, plays an equally important role. We will rebuild the walls,…