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By BarefootLawyers.   Right as Lwanga got out of the taxi at his home stage, he saw Ambrose struggling and drowning in Nakivubo channel. Being an expert fisherman, he dived in and tried to rescue him.   While Lwanga was dragging Ambrose to safety, Ambrose swung his arms and hit Lwanga against a stone. Bystanders pulled Ambrose out, but Lwanga drowned because he was unconscious from the injury to his head.   Lwanga’s family want to sue Ambrose for killing their son. Can they do this?     WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?   The law says that when a person willingly engages in an activity that is risky or dangerous while fully knowing what the most likely outcome of such action will be, then you are taken to do this at your own risk.   This is called “Voluntary Assumption of risk”. This principle says that if you knowingly and voluntarily expose yourself to a risk, you cannot sue someone if you are injured as a result.   As long as no one has forced...

By BarefootLawyers.   Yesterday Sunday 30-7-2023 was the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Trafficking in persons is a serious crime which violates the human rights of every person. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers in their own countries and abroad.   Human trafficking is a crime where people are tricked or forced into doing things, they don't want to do such as working without pay, being forced into prostitution, slavery, working against your will (involuntary servitude), etc. This is done when someone is forced or tricked into being moved from one place to another or held against their will using threats, lies, or taking advantage of their helplessness.  For example if a Kafumisi a boda man meets a Makku who is just has just come off a bus in Kampala from her village for the first time and instead of giving her directions ‘tricks’ her into going to his house or a lodge for the night to have sex with ...

📸: RDC Buga Matata with a hoe launches the project. Photo by Information is Power. Maracha district leaders combined of the RDC  Rt. Cpt. Buga Yasin Matata, Deputy RDC Mrs Kotevu Monica Koliba, LC V Chairperson Hon Obitre Stephen, DPC SP Kananura Jonathan, political wing, entire technical staffs of health and Enabel NGO officials, on Thursday 27-7-2023 gathered at Maracha health centre IV to launch the construction of a Theater for tye facility. The theater construction project worth 163,000£ (Shs 655,438,395) whose contract has been awarded to WEKO Engineering Consult Ltd is expected to be completed in 6 months. 📸: Hon Alema Dicky speaks to Information is Power , during the launch. The male councilor representing Workers in the district, who is at the same time the secretary for social services Hon Dicky Alema appreciated the opportunity offered by Enabel organization to construct a Theater at Maracha health centre IV because the entire district of Marac...

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By THN. Apple has announced plans to require developers to submit reasons to use certain APIs in their apps starting later this year with the release of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, tvOS 17, and watchOS 10 to prevent their abuse for data collection. "This will help ensure that apps only use these APIs for their intended purpose," the company said in a statement. "As part of this process, you'll need to select one or more approved reasons that accurately reflect how your app uses the API, and your app can only use the API for the reasons you've selected." The APIs that require reasons for use relate to the following - File timestamp APIs System boot time APIs Disk space APIs Active keyboard APIs, and User defaults APIs The iPhone maker said it's making the move to ensure that such APIs are not abused by app developers to collect device signals to carry out fingerprinting , which could be employed to uniquely identify users across...

The churches, mosques, health centres and schools in entire Terego District have received a total of 40 water tanks (10 of which are 5000 Litres and 30 of which are 2000 Litres) lobbied from Islamic Centre for Education and Research, by Terego West Constituency MP Hon Joel Leku. Mrs Nezma Ajio, a resident, expressed her happiness for the donation of water tanks they received from Islamic Centre for Education and Research through Hon Leku Joel who lobbied them. She is optimistic that, the water tanks shall improve on scarcity of water their institutions have been facing. A boarding senior six student at Oriajini secondary school, Fadhil Bonny pointed at the distance from Boys dormitory to the borehole that has always been a problem for them whenever they want to fetch water and by the time you arrive from fetcing water, you will find the jumah prayers have finished. He said, it has been their prayer to receive this kind of support that can help them as a school in terms of w...

By BarefootLawyers. Nantongo got married to her first love Bakasimba immediately after graduation. Unfortunately, their marriage was hell on earth. They quarreled constantly and then he started coming home late and beating her while drunk.  Nantongo left him on one of those nights when he was out drinking and forgot about him. One night she received a call from their former LC who was Bakasimba’s friend ‘mbu’ Bakasimba had been knocked on his way from the bar at 3am and died. Nantongo thought it was a trick to ‘get her back’ and ignored it. When she returned to their village on Christmas, she fouind out that Bakasimba had really died and was buried. When she asked if he had left anything for their child, she was told that all the property was distributed, and the relatives received their share and even his parents got something. Nantongo wants to know if she can challenge this because her daughter missed out.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? if a person dies without leavin...

📸: Some of the beneficiaries paying attention during the training. Photo by Information is Power . Aseru Maracha Foundation, a none governmental organization registered on December 2022 in Maracha District has on Thursday 20-7-2023 turned to training Youths and Teenage mothers in greater Oluvu Sub-county on how to do both commercial and subsistence farming as a way of alleviating themselves and their families from the clutches of poverty and hunger. 📸: Ms Obuba Kanta one of the beneficiaries of the training talks to Information is Power during an interview after the training. Ms Kanta Obuba from Draju village, Draju Parish in Obiba Sub-county applauded Aseru Maracha Foundation for giving them such opportunity to train them on Agriculture and also pledged to put into good use the knowledge she has learned from the training on commercial farming by sharing it with her fellow ladies. 📸: Mr Drate Gabriel the Assistant CDO for Agaii Town Council spe...

By THN. As the number of people using macOS keeps going up, so does the desire of hackers to take advantage of flaws in Apple's operating system. What Are the Rising Threats to macOS? # There is a common misconception among macOS fans that Apple devices are immune to hacking and malware infection. However, users have been facing more and more dangers recently. Inventive attackers are specifically targeting Mac systems, as seen with the "Geacon" Cobalt Strike tool attack. This tool enables them to perform malicious actions such as data theft, privilege elevation, and remote device control, placing the security and privacy of Mac users at grave risk. Earlier this year, researchers also uncovered the MacStealer malware, which also stole sensitive data from Apple users. Documents, iCloud keychain data, browser cookies, credit card credentials – nothing is safe from the prying eyes. But that's not all. CloudMensis is malicious software that specifically t...

Ugandan MPs led by Maracha County MP, Hon. Oguzu Lee Denis have launched Ugandan Chapter of the African Parliamentary Network on Illicit Financial Flows and Tax Justice ( APNIFFT) as a platform to mobilize fellow MPs, exchange information and build capacities to tackle the challenge of IFFs and perennially inadequate domestic resources. Oguzu in his opening remarks noted that Uganda's Tax to GDP ratio continues to be below Africa's average of 17% at paltry 14% and the ever narrowing fiscal space continues to pile pressure on government to borrow yet the problem could be solved by curbing illicit financial flows that have continued to undermine domestic resource mobilization efforts. According to SEATINI, $10 per person is lost in Uganda to IFFs annually. These largely take the form of commercial activities (65%), crime 30% and corruption 5%. The chapter formation is a culmination of efforts by African Union High Level Panel on IFFs.  Illicit ...

By SJAFE01. 1. Your Brake Light Is On One of the easiest indications that your brakes are in need of help is when your brake warning light appears on your dash. In fact, most modern vehicles have two warning lights that can appear on the dash for various reasons. If you have a brake light on the two options are your Antilock Braking System (ABS) or the brake system warning light. If you see an ABS warning light on your dash, you need to take your vehicle to a local dealer or repair shop, as they're equipped with the right equipment.  Your brake light won't always come on when there is an issue — it's also the light that appears on your dash when your parking brake is engaged. But if you're seeing a brake warning light and your parking brake isn't engaged, it's time to have a brake specialist take a look and diagnose your ABS System issues.

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By BarefootLawyers. Okello lost his wife 20 years ago and decided to only focus on their Mateo, Yona and Yosefu. 20 years later, Okello had 7 acres of land, a successful poultry business, and sinotrucks for hire. Early this year, Okello got a call telling him that one of his trucks knocked a boda boda. Okello decided to rush to see if he could sort it out before police became involved. Unfortunately, he never made it, as he was entering the main road, another trailer rammed into him and killed him instantly.   After Okello had been laid to rest, his sons sat down and divided the property amongst themselves. However, of late, Yosefu the last born has started complaining that he was cheated, and he wants to be given something else because most of the chicken in the chicken business died of a fever.   Can Yosefu cancel the distribution and demand for something else?     WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? Once a person dies, their property does not automatically stop bei...

📸: Ajia Health Centre III sign post. Photo by Information is Power . Arua District leaders led by Resident District Commissoner Mr Okiswa Geoffrey were left in shock after 2 staffs out of 18 were found on duty when they went to commission a staff house in Ajia health centre III, recently. Hon Candini Luiji the secretary for works and social services who condemned the actions of the health workers at Ajia health centre III, said, that is the routine behavior of most health workers in Ajia and Bondo health centre III. After expressing himself with emotions, Hon Candini said, he doesn't regret any of his words spoken over the absenteeism saga. The area councilor for Ajia Sub-county Hon Ayikobua Cosmas who doubles as the LC5 Vice Chairperson for Arua district apologized to the district leaders over absenteeism of health workers at the facility. He cautioned them that, whoever doesn't improve in regards to that effect will be held liable next time. The resident district...

By THN. Apple has rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari to address several security vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited zero-day bug in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-38606 , the shortcoming resides in the kernel and permits a malicious app to modify sensitive kernel state potentially. The company said it was addressed with improved state management. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1," the tech giant noted in its advisory. It's worth noting that CVE-2023-38606 is the third security vulnerability discovered in connection with Operation Triangulation , a sophisticated mobile cyber espionage campaign targeting iOS devices since 2019 using a zero-click exploit chain. The other two zero-days, CVE-2023-32434 and CVE-2023-32435 , were patched by Apple last month. Kaspersky researchers Valentin Pashkov, Mikhail Vinogrado...

Well, you cannot avoid all car windscreen problems and can go for windscreen replacement. Rather, you must try to avoid this emergency as soon as you get to know about it from afar. So, let's discuss those simple tips and tricks to protect car windshields while on the road.  Steps to Avoid Windscreen Damage on the Road 🚨 Drive Within The Limit And Carefully Most windshield cracks and damage happen when the driver is driving at high speed and any foreign objects come and hit the car windshield. In this case, the flying debris hit the shield with much greater force, which caused cracks to appear on the car windscreen. Moreover, the weather condition of that area also plays an essential role in damaging the windshield. Likewise, when wind and water are in the air, they carry objects that can damage the screen. So, for best results, try to drive slowly within the speed limit; otherwise, you will have to opt for windscreen replacement, which is an expensive option.  ⚠️...

The Territorial Police in Bukedi South and Busia district, registered an incident where a 30 year old male adult, identified as Ouma Justus a bodaboda rider of Buwaya village, Bumunyi Parisj, Masinya Sub-county in Busia district, died in a lodge, after taking sex enhancement pills. The victim spent 3 days with her woman friend, Auma Carolyne, aged 25, who woke up on the 19.07.2023, at around 6am, and found her partner, dead   in bed. The matter was brought to the attention of the police at Masinya, and the scene visited, body transferred to Masafu general hospital for post-mortem, which revealed a cardiac treat pills. We would like to warn all sexually active men, that some of the sexual male enhancement pills are not tested and can be dangerous  to one’s health or life threatening. Its therefore, advisable that you see a physician, before using any sex stamina pills. SCP Enanga Fred Police Spokesperson 24th July 2023

We wish to inform the public that the Ministry of Health, has cleared the Uganda Police Forensic Laboratory, at Naguru, Police Headquarters, to continue providing Forensic DNA testing services as per its mandate. The Forensic Laboratory has now been added to the database of gazetted/certified facilities for DNA testing relationship. The clearance of the Forensic DNA Lab, is a big and important step, in significantly enhancing the investigative capabilities of the police, and also play  a pivotal role in crime solving, disaster victim identification, and counter terrorism efforts. By comparison, DNA is scientifically accurate and more difficult to dispute, than eyewitnesses accounts.  It has further helped remove the major setbacks, in obtaining the much needed justice for victims in crime, by corroborating witness and survivor statements. Our DNA and Forensic Testing Service has a laboratory, that is equipped with the state-of-the art technology and facilities to p...

📸: Hon Leku Joel on the left handsover a First Aid Kit to some of the football clubs in Terego District. Photo by Information is Power. The football clubs in Terego District have on Friday 21-7-2023 received First Aid Kits lobbied by Terego West Constituency MP Hon Leku Joel, from Islamic Centre for Education and Research. The CEO and PRO for Golden Star Olua football club Mr Alfred Demubo admitted that, it is the first of its kind for them to receive this kind of donation in Terego District. He hopes the First Aid Kits will help them in improving their sports activities through catering for eventualities among others as far as sports is concerned. Wandi Soccer Club vice chairperson Mr Econi Felix narrated the suffering they went through in the past due to lack of First Aid Kits, and he thanked the organization (Islamic Centre for Education and Research) and Hon Leku Joel for lobbying these First Aid Kits for clubs in Terego District. Terego West Constituency MP Hon Joel L...

By BarefootLawyers. No! if you are a parent or a child and there is no disagreement or refusal by one of the people involved or should be tested, you can voluntarily take a DNA test to find out if ‘those’ parents or children are really yours.   However, if one person denies or refuses responsibility, you cannot force them to just ‘do a test’. You must apply to the court to declare who the parent or child is. Part of this means that the court may order that the involved people take a DNA test to find out who the parent or child belongs to. 📷: Unsplash

📸: Incoming CAO Mr Nicholas Ogwang on the left receives Auditor General's report from outgoing CAO Mr Jude Paul Bukenya on the right. Photo by Information is Power. The outgoing Chief Administrative Officer for Arua District, Mr Jude Paul Bukenya has on Wednesday 19-7-2023 handed over office of Arua District Chief Administrative Officer vote 810, to the incoming Chief Administrative Officer Mr Nicholas Ogwang who was formerly the CAO for Omoro District. While handing over the office, the outgoing CAO Mr Jude Bukenya who has been transferred to Kyankwanzi District, praised Arua District council as one of the best councils in the entire WestNile region, noting that, he didn't get misunderstandings with any of the council members or the LC V Chairperson. Mr Jude also accounted to the quorum about remaining balance of Shs 279 million in the bank account of Arua District.  The incoming CAO Mr Nicholas Ogwang thanked Arua District leaders for building a team compromi...

To do an emergency stop in an automatic car, press the brake until the car comes to a stop. Then apply the handbrake and put the car into neutral. WHAT TO DO AFTER AN EMERGENCY STOP If you’ve performed an emergency stop correctly, your car should come to a complete stop with your engine still running. Unless you’re in a manual car and you forgot to press the clutch, in which case your car may have stalled. If so, your first step is to start your engine again. You need to observe the area around you, including any blind spots, before driving off again. In your driving test, the examiner will be assessing you on the checks you make before heading off. So make a point of checking all of your mirrors and the blind spot. You could also make a point of checking your rear-view mirror immediately before you do the emergency stop, to demonstrate your awareness of the surroundings. We’ve got a detailed guide to the checks you should make before moving off from behind a parked car. Th...

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📸: Rev Fr John Baptist Drabo on the right Cheers Up during the anniversary. Photo by Information is Power . Government representatives, mainly politicians, Muslim clerics and Christians clerics across WestNile region and DRC Congo who on Saturday 15-7-2023 converged at Bura primary school football field in Maracha town council, Maracha District to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rev Father John Baptist Drabo, have showered him with praises and gifts worth millions of shillings. A Christian of Maracha parish, Mr Justus Yeero Aduma termed the silver jubilee anniversary of Rev Fr John Baptist Drabo as an inspiration to many people including children. Moyo district LC V Chairperson Hon Williams Anyama congratulated Rev Fr John Baptist Drabo upon this milestone. Ayivu East Constituency MP Hon Feta Geoffrey said, the Jubilarian is a man of God who leads by example. While quoting book of proverbs chapter 10 verse 7, Maracha constituency MP Hon Oguzu Lee Denis stated that, this ...

By THN. Threat actors are taking advantage of Android's WebAPK technology to trick unsuspecting users into installing malicious web apps on Android phones that are designed to capture sensitive personal information. "The attack began with victims receiving SMS messages suggesting the need to update a mobile banking application," researchers from CSIRT KNF said in an analysis released last week. "The link contained in the message led to a site that used WebAPK technology to install a malicious application on the victim's device." The application impersonates PKO Bank Polski, a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Warsaw. Details of the campaign were first shared by Polish cybersecurity firm RIFFSEC. WebAPK allows users to install progressive web apps (PWAs) to their home screen on Android devices without having to use the Google Play Store. "When a user installs a PWA from Google Chrome and a WebAPK is u...

By BarefootLawyers. Miti is a very big fan of JJJ a popular musician from South Africa. When he heard that JJJ was coming to Uganda, he bought an early bird ticket two months before the concert. On the day of the concert, Miti prepared and went to the concert venue very early. On reaching there, they were told that due to factors beyond their control, JJJ could not be coming and so the concert was canceled. Miti is very angry and wants to know who he can sue. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? When you buy a ticket for a concert, you would have entered into an agreement (contract) with a company that is going to bring that musician. Therefore, if the company that was supposed to bring the musician fails to do so, then that company would have breached the terms of the contract. Therefore, Miti can sue the company that was supposed to bring JJJ because the company breached the terms of the contract. In such cases, however, the company would have to refund you the cost of the ticket, or p...

By BarefootLawyers. On the 18th of July every year, the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s values and dedication to serving humanity. Today we celebrate the power of individuals to make a difference and create positive change in their communities, regardless of their background or circumstances. Nelson Mandela fought against the apartheid system, which separated people based on their skin colour and race in South Africa. Mandela believed in equality and wanted everyone to be treated equally, regardless of race. He spent 27 years in prison for his beliefs but never gave up. When he was finally released, he became South Africa's first black president and worked to bring people together. Mandela showed the world that forgiveness and unity are powerful forces.  He taught us to stand up for what is right and treat each other respectfully and kindly. Today, remember that we all have a part in fighting injustices and discrimination within our societies. Photo by Gregory Fullard...

📸: Amolatar RDC Okello Francis Odoki in whitish suite interacts with locals during the riot. Amolatar Riots. The belligerent response witnessed this morning Monday 17-7-2023, in which the communities within Namasali town council were finally brought to order when the district security committee lead by RDC Amolatar Okello Francis Odoki Rwotlonyo intervened in engaging the communities on the misinformation doctored by some local petrimental leaders; who alleged that some baruri from Nakasongola were on their way to occupy back their ancestral land in Namasali town council Amolatar District, this sentiments went viral and fueled more anger from over two thousand people residing within Namasali TC. Facts on the ground: Miss Katushabe Juliet daughter tolate Kaweki  Nafutali formerly resident of Bungu cell in Namasali Town council, Amolatar District, who left bungu in during the late 70’s. His eldest s...