Information is Power

Automated Blog Post. Ethiopia failed coup: Fifth death, national mourning, mastermind killed. Attorney General of Ethiopia’s Amhara region has succumbed to injuries sustained after an attack that led to the death of the region’s president over the weekend. Migbara Kebede becomes the fifth casualty of the coup attempt in Bahir Dar, the regional capital. The BBC also reports that the mastermind of the attack, Asaminew Tsige, had been shot dead by police, on Monday. The death of Ambachew Mekonnen and Ezez Wasie – the regional president and his advisor respectively was confirmed by the government on Sunday. “The situation in the Amhara region is currently under full control of Federal Government in collaboration with the Regional Government, which in accordance with the consitution is being led by the Vice President, Lake Ayalew,” a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said. Over in the capital Addis Ababa, Army Chief Seare Mekonnen and another retired officer (Maj. Gen. Gezai Abera)...

If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven't updated it recently, don't you even dare to play any untrusted, randomly downloaded video file on it. Doing so could allow hackers to remotely take full control over your computer system. That's because VLC media player software versions prior to 3.0.7 contain two high-risk security vulnerabilities, besides many other medium- and low-severity security flaws, that could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. With more than 3 billion downloads, VLC is a hugely popular open-source media player software that is currently being used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide on all major platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Android and iOS mobile platforms. Discovered by Symeon Paraschoudis from Pen Test Partners and identified as CVE-2019-12874, the first high-severity vulnerability is a double-free issue which resides in "zlib_decompress_extra" function of VideoLAN VLC player an...

Automated Blog Post. KAMPALA. Man Arrested for Wearing Police Uniform to Impound and Rob Motorcycles. A suspected robber, who puts on a police uniform and targets boda boda motorcyclists has been arrested with the help of CCTV cameras. The suspect, Fauswali Isabirye, has been putting on a police uniform pretending to be a serving officer and carrying out arrests of unsuspecting boda boda riders. Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) said in a statement on Monday night that Issbirye was carrying out thefts with his colleague Moses Tukesiye. Both are residents of Palisa District. It is alleged Isabirye impounds the motorcycles before telling his victims to find him at the nearby police station. However, he would disappear with their motorcycles and ride them to Pallisa where he has a buyer. The two suspects stole two motorcycles registration numbers UER 349U and UEV 434V from Old Kampala area , and both incidents were captured on police CCTV cameras. “After the complaints, his image was put ...

Congolese opposition figure and former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived discreetly in Kinshasa on Sunday morning for his second return to the Democratic Republic of Congo in less than a year after being convicted and acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and serving ten years in prison. Upon his descent from a private jet from Brussels, Mr. Bemba was welcomed by Martin Fayulu, who claims victory in the June 30 presidential election won by Felix Tshisekedi according to the official results of the Electoral Commission validated by the Constitutional Court. Near the airport, the crowd was very small compared to the thousands of people who greeted his first return from exile on August 1 after eleven years of absence. I look forward to meeting you again so that together we can strengthen unity of vision and action for a prosperous Congo. Mr. Bemba had only stayed in the DRC for a few days to stand as a candidate in the presidential election, which was finally invalidated by t...

Automated blog post. Government has "technically lost control" of Uganda Telecom, the state minister for Investment and Privatization Evelyn Anite has revealed.  Anite told MPs on Thursday that when the Nigerian firm was contracted to revamp UTL, Taleology Holdings GIB Ltd failed to meet its contractual obligations of investing Shs 268 billion in the telecom as agreed, Bemanya Twebaze the registrar general of Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) remained as the administrator of UTL having been appointed in 2017. However, Twebaze has since reportedly refused UTL operations to be audited by the auditor general John Muwanga saying that he can only report to court. “The watchman [administrator] has stopped the owner [government] from accessing the company,” said Anite in an analogy. During the plenary session, Aringa South MP, Alioni Yorke Odria tabled shocking documents indicating that government’s efforts to carry out accountability audits in UTL have been blocked by the ...

I posted this article on 23 June 2017 and it carried "66 Likes" and "111 Comments" and "23 Shares". Below is the Link leading to the Original article 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1889944297992687&id=100009314063577 WHO IS A CHEAP GIRL?. __________________________________ 1. A cheap gal is any gal who is living in a man's house and the man has not paid her bride price, no wedding but she is living with him. __________________________________ 2. A cheap gal is any gal who is already having sex with a common boyfriend and she does not know where the relationship is heading to, she does not know where the guy comes from, no marriage plans, no wedding hope but she is having sex with the guy because of the money she is getting from him. __________________________________ 3. A cheap gal is any gal who sends her nude pics to her boy friend in the name of love. __________________________________ 4. A cheap gal is any gal who ...

Great Firewall of Russia. Russia is getting closer to implementing the sort of internet regulations that exist under the Great Firewall of China. Earlier this year, internet providers began preparing to conduct tests to find out if Russia can build an internet disconnected from the rest of the world. Now, Russia plans to block major VPN (virtual private network) services that allow users to reach banned websites. In March, Russia’s telecommunications regulations agency Roscomnadzor told the top VPN providers to link their servers to the government-run IT system, which it uses to prevent people in the country from accessing banned sites. Roskomnadzor wrote to the ten providers—ExpressVPN, HideMyAss!, Hola VPN, IPVanish, Kaspersky Secure Connection, KeepSolid, NordVPN, OpenVPN, TorGuard, and VyprVPN—and said the operations had 30 days to respond, according to a Reuters report at the time. “In the cases of non-compliance with the obligations stipulated by the law, Roskomnadzor may decide ...

Independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm's share structure. According to the results of votes at Facebook's annual shareholder meeting last week, 68% of outside investors want the company to hire an independent chairman. The majority was up from 51% last year. Despite the revolt, the proposals did not pass because of Zuckerberg's voting control of the stock, which means he can swat away shareholder demands. "Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance," said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate action among activist Facebook investors. In a filing on Monday, Facebook revealed how investors voted on a raft of proposals at its annual shareholder meeting last week — and the results underline the unrest among outside investors. According to an analysis of the results by Open Mic — an organization that works with activist shareholders to improve corporate governan...