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By Information is Power.  District Local Council (DLC) Councilors in Maracha District while attending a meeting organized by West Nile Regional Civil Society Network (WESICNET) on Thursday 17-8-2023 at Power Point Restaurant Nyadri, have expressed their opinions and passed recommendations concerning Electoral processes and activities in Uganda. Hon Silva Drani , the councilor representing people of Oleba Town Council to the district council, requested Parliament to amend the law to allow Women as the only people who will vote for Women MPs. Another Councilor, while comparing some of the positions like RDCs, DISOs, DPCs etc which he said are doing the same work and some are not performing like some redundant MPs in Uganda Parliament, Workers representative in the district council Hon Dicky Alema has recommended government to trim some of those positions in order to save tax payers money. He also suggested that, the Electoral Commission of Uganda should make clarity especial

The Minister of Gender Labour and Social Development has led a delegation to Jordan to discuss the operationalisation of the Bilateral Labour Agreement between Uganda and Jordan.  This morning, the Minister met the delegation from Labour Ministry with a call to for both sides to establish the Joint technical committee to follow up on the complaints from migrant workers.   The visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan followed numerous reports that some Ugandans who have been externalised to Jordan were in detention/jail in Jordan since the Covid19 lockdown serving long sentences. The intention was to seek their amnesty and release from prisons.  Further, the Minister also discussed how to implement provisions in The Bilateral Labour Agreement (BLA) was renewed automatically in 2022. The Minister has also raised with her couter part complaint related to:  • Inadequate Commission paid to Ugandan agencies to externalise workers. • Failure to pay salaries of migrant workers

  📸: Stock Image. Danilo works as a waiter at one of the big bars from 7 pm to 3 am and with his salary, he pays his university tuition. So it is not usual to see him running to catch a taxi at 6pm or entering the home he rents at about 5am. Last week, on his way from work, a police patrol car stopped him and arrested him because ‘a thief wearing black jeans and a black shirt with white shoes’ had run away after stealing from a nearby house about 2 hours before. Danilo tried explaining, but he was thrown in a cell, and now he has to face court to prove he is not a thief. What should he tell the court.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?   By law, when a person is accused of committing a crime, the prosecution (the side which proves a case against a person) must show that the person was at the scene of the crime. This means that if you are accused of stealing something from a place, they must show that you were within or at the place where the theft occurred. For example, if a theft w

Threat actors are using Android Package (APK) files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. That's according to findings from Zimperium, which found 3,300 artifacts leveraging such compression algorithms in the wild. 71 of the identified samples can be loaded on the operating system without any problems. There is no evidence that the apps were available on the Google Play Store at any point in time, indicating that the apps were distributed through other means, typically via untrusted app stores or social engineering to trick the victims into sideloading them. The APK files use "a technique that limits the possibility of decompiling the application for a large number of tools, reducing the possibilities of being analyzed," security researcher Fernando Ortega said. "In order to do that, the APK (which is in essence a ZIP file), is using an unsupported decompression method." The advantage of such an approach is its

📸 : Body of late Hon Apollo Amute Ezaa during the special council sitting. During a special council sitting held in Oleba Town Council hall on Thursday 17-8-2023, District Local Council (DLC) Councilors, LC3 Chairpersons and Sub-county Councilors in Maracha District have paid tribute to their fallen colleague Hon Apollo Amute Ezaa the LC3 Chairperson for Oleba Town Council who died on spot during a head-on collision accident with another motorcycle rider on 15-8-2023 9pm near Aroi health centre III in Arua City. Oleba Town Council Speaker Rt Hon Bosco Acidri said, following the death of Oleba LC3 Chairperson late Hon Peter Madira and now the death of Hon Apollo Amute Ezaa which have occurred in a similar trend, the seat of the LC3 will remain vacant if religious leaders do not initiate extensive prayers, because many people are now fearing that seat. Paranga Sub-county LC3 Chairperson Hon Godfrey Osutre expressed fears that, the infrastructural developments (roads)

📸: Unsplash. Ponsiano recently fell in love with Aggy. Aggy is a married woman, but she claims she is also in love with Ponsiano. One day the two decided to run away together and start a new life. Aggy’s husband Benard ran to report the matter to the nearest police station. Commander Jesse, the officer in charge of the station tracked down Ponsiano and brought him to the cells. The police told him they are charging him with the crime of elopement according to Section 127 of the Penal Code. He has said he did not know that what he did was a crime so he should not be punished for it.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?   By law, your ignorance about the law is not an excuse against being punished if you commit a crime. This is because most offences are made up of actions or failure to act in a certain way that the law does not allow. This is known as actus reus (the actions that make a crime).  For example, if you are stopped for over speeding on the road, you cannot claim that you did

📸: The body of late Hon Matua Simon Aniku. The political fraternity, business community and Christians have on Sunday 13-8-2023 thronged in Draju Village to mourn the death of former Oluvu Sub-county LC III Chairperson Hon Simon Matua Aniku born on 15-5-1965 and died on 10-August-2023 after serving for 10 years as the LC III Chairperson of the area and lost reelection in February 2016 when his opponent defeated him with only "One" vote. 📸: Woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer sits amongst government officials as they mourn the late former LC3 Hon Simon Matua. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Chairperson for Maracha District, Mr Gabriel Ofekua noted that, it was the late Hon Simon Matua Aniku who singlehandedly mediated unity between him (Mr Ofekua) and LC5 Chairperson Hon Obitre Stephen after engaging in quarrels and physical fight in 15-6-2022 fueled by viral Kololo Seed secondary school construction project corruption allegations coupled with