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First of all, if you have any of the below-listed apps installed on your Android device, you are advised to uninstall it immediately. Cybersecurity researchers have identified 42 apps on the Google Play Store with a total of more than 8 million downloads, which were initially distributed as legitimate applications but later updated to maliciously display full-screen advertisements to their users. Discovered by ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko, these adware Android applications were developed by a Vietnamese university student, who easily got tracked likely because he never bothered to hide his identity. The publicly available registration details of a domain associated with the adware apps helped find the identity of the rogue developer, including his real name, address, and phone number, which eventually led the researcher to his personal accounts on Facebook, GitHub, and YouTube. "Seeing that the developer did not take any measures to protect his identity,

President Yoweri Museveni who is in Russia to attend the Russia – Africa Summit has held talks with Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the first ever summit between the Russia and African States which is being held in Sochi. The Kremlin leader welcomed Museveni to Sochi adding that the two States (Uganda and Russia) share a common task – to develop trade and economic ties and increase mutual trade. Putin alluded to an earlier decision to create a working group on cooperation in the mineral and raw materials sphere as part of the intergovernmental commission, adopted in October 2017 during a Russian business mission to Kampala. An agreement was reached in April 2018 to establish Uganda’s national system for identifying, evaluating and certifying mineral fields and to further create a comprehensive analytical lab with international accreditation in cooperation with Russia. “I believe that a good task has been set, which will create conditio

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Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting on the Committee of Natural Resources have expressed shock that government has already embarked on a process to amend the National Environment Act, 2018, with a likely aim to implement a total ban focusing on the manufacturing of polythene bags. The National Environment Act, 2018, was passed by Parliament in November of last year and sought to repeal the National Environment Act Cap.153 and replace it with a law that conforms to existing government policies and other relevant laws. It banned single-use carrier bags below 30 microns. The law obliges manufacturers of polythene bags and plastics to recycle plastic waste and also label the polythene bags. Industries engaged in producing plastics are also required to give an annual report on the amount of plastic they have produced, how much has been collected from the public and how much has been recycled. President Yoweri Museveni signed the Act into law in February this year. However, Parliamen

Students face off with the military Military and regular police have arrested over 20 students of Makerere university who were protesting tuition increment. The university council last year approved a 15 percent cumulative increment for five years. After five years, each student will be required to pay 75 percent more. Led by their Guild Vice President Judith Nalukwago, students on Tuesday morning tried to march to the President’s office to petition President Museveni to scrap the policy. The army and police quickly intercepted them outside the university the gate and dispersed them before arresting the ring leaders. According to Nalukwago, those who increased the tuition have their children studying outside this country. “Some of us are here selling our bodies to get tuition. Mr President, please halt this policy and relieve us from selling our bodies,” she is quoted by media as saying. The students are currently detained at Wandegeya police station pending investigations. Wan

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