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ANYONE WITH THE APPETITE OF UGANDA's OIL WHICH IS STILL UNDER GROUND AND TO COME OUT IN COUPLE OF YEARS, SHOULD AWAY THAT APPETITE. Oil price is: petrol 4059/- per litre, Diesel 3759/- per litre and paraffin trades around the price of diesel. With such an fluctuation and escalation in Oil market, you still expect something satisfying, from a Taboo moron!. Your father does not have an oil and so, is my father. To avoid getting curse words, you could even go look for your own oil elsewhere but not here in Uganda because the demi god of Ugandans, has owned majority of it. Oooh may be, you have forgotten to remember Mr Museveni quoting This is my oil and i will never allow wolves, rats and dogs to snatch it. Bunch of poor brains for real. The main story is below 👇👇👇👇 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ March 2018. OIL SECTOR. Oil sector local content may fizzle out in structural gaps March 2018. Last week, Total E&P, launched a scheme to train welders ahead of the heightened activity that will define the development stage of key oil infrastructure, writes Jeff Mbanga. It’s a scheme that all welders should be interested in. For this year alone, Total intends to drill at least 30 well pads in its Tilenga project, where the oil wells EA-1 and EA-2N are located. Also, it is expected that the final investment decision for the construction of a crude oil pipeline between Hoima and the Chongoleani peninsula in Tanzania will be signed by the third quarter of this year. At 1,445km, this will be the longest heated underground pipeline in the world. By any measure, work for the welders should be available. Or so we think. Total E&P, and its other key partner in the development of the Lake Albert oil basin Cnooc Uganda, has agreed to give Ugandans first priority during the tendering process. There is need for caution, though. Overall, getting Uganda’s oil industry through the development stage, right up to production, should rack up a bill of between $12bn and $15bn in expenditure. Aside from staff salaries and paying up consultants, among other smaller bills, a huge chunk of this money will go into construction works. For all that to happen, Uganda needs to put up laws to enforce it. Across the region - from Kenya to the Democratic Republic of Congo - countries are tweaking their policies governing mineral wealth to ensure the local public reaps substantial benefits. While Uganda’s oil industry is somewhat different, there are some lessons to pick from what’s happening with its neighbour’s mining sectors. In June 2017, Tanzania, rattled by allegations of Acacia Mining Limited under-declaring mineral concentrates it had exported, introduced a new mining policy that gave government sweeping powers. The government gave itself powers to renegotiate the mining development agreements already in existence; a free-carried interest of no less than 16 per cent in all mining projects; and an increase in the rate of revenue royalties; and, if it so wished, a shareholding of up to 50 per cent of any mining asset. In December 2017, Kenya published the draft Mining (Local Equity Participation) Regulations, 2017 Act, which required a holder of a mining license to list at least 20 per cent of their stake on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, offering an avenue for Kenyans to buy into the company. This is a smart move because the company would be exposed to the intense scrutiny of the securities market and its regulators. In January, DR Congo passed a mining code that mainly raised royalties and called for local involvement. Uganda, in trying to create opportunities for its public to milk the billion-dollar oil industry, has placed local content at the forefront, although expectations need to be managed. First of all, it is important to pay attention to the wave of local content hype, which is akin to nationalizing resource wealth, spreading throughout East Africa. Countries, which are in a race to attract the limited investment capital, face the pressure of ensuring that the local population benefits from the mineral wealth while massaging the egos of impatient investors. It’s a delicate balancing act in the sense that across East Africa, there is no uniform code of conduct for the extractives industry. And yet, it will not be the laws that will define whether Ugandans get enough contracts from the oil industry. It will all come down to two main things: price and the standard. If Ugandan products and services are priced fairly, and also have the right standards, then oil companies are required to consider them first. Still, there are some challenges that local companies will encounter. In some tenders, oil companies are bound to call for services with experience of at least five years. Uganda’s oil industry being fairly new, few companies have that experience. Also, the organizations, such as the Uganda Bureau of Standards, which are supposed to determine the standards in the oil sector are understaffed and underfunded. When it comes to price, a number of imported products, such as steel and cement from China, are cheaper than those manufactured locally. While it is easier to overlook the issue of price, the challenge comes if the difference with that of the imported product is huge. Remember, the costs that the oil companies incur have an impact on the profit that the country generates from its oil. Under the current set-up, oil companies will first recover their costs before any profit can be shared out with government. So, as the government calls on Ugandans to exploit the opportunities in the oil industry, there is a need to fix the capacity gaps that the country faces. There is need for an environment where there is access to cheaper credit; available and cheaper power is a must; and a broadening of the tax base to limit the burden on the few that pay. Otherwise, for as long as we do not fix the key structural issues that Uganda’s economy faces, it is going to be hard for local players to be able to exploit the opportunities that the oil industry offers. In the end, all the benefits will fall in the hands of foreign companies.

ANYONE WITH THE APPETITE OF UGANDA's OIL WHICH IS STILL UNDER GROUND AND TO COME OUT IN COUPLE OF YEARS, SHOULD AWAY THAT APPETITE. Oil price is: petrol 4059/- per litre, Diesel 3759/- per litre and paraffin trades around the price of diesel. With such an fluctuation and escalation in Oil market, you still expect something satisfying, from a Taboo moron!. Your father does not have an oil and so, is my father. To avoid getting curse words, you could even go look for your own oil elsewhere but not here in Uganda because the demi god of Ugandans, has owned majority of it. Oooh may be, you have forgotten to remember Mr Museveni quoting This is my oil and i will never allow wolves, rats and dogs to snatch it. Bunch of poor brains for real. The main story is below 👇👇👇👇 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ March 2018. ...

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UK DATA FARM, CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA PLAYED ROLES IN MULTIPLE AFRICAN ELECTIONS. {My comment*** did i not remind my fellow Africans, that, Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice anywhere. Absolutely, i was betting on this coming unto us too. Most of our African Rulers are desperately idiotic of any favor that comes their way, to sustain their longetivity in power. TO MY FELLOW #AFRICANS, we shouldn't allow such hazardous history repeat again. We have the powers to block such #Data_Scandals from manipulating our elections though the elections in Africa are not yet 100% Free and Fair. We aren't naive! I am so personate about it. - Osuta Yusuf; a career Politician, Lawyer, Student for Life and Talented in Internet.} Below is the phrase! So long but if you are lazy in reading, just back off because i publish for my reader, readers only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018 March. REUTERS. Long before its controversial roles in the 2016 Brexit vote and U.S. presidential election, Cambridge Analytica influenced elections in Africa. The data mining company, under fire for its alleged use of 50 million Facebook accounts to shape campaign messages for then-candidate Donald Trump, also played a role in elections in Kenya and Nigeria, according to new reports. Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto display their election victory certificates last year The company’s first involvement in Africa dates to the general election in South Africa in 1994. That election marked the end of the apartheid era and the ascent of Nelson Mandela to the presidency. Widespread violence and deep-seated societal fractures had put the elections in jeopardy, Martin Plaut, a journalist and senior research fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, told VOA. “The 1994 election in South Africa was on an absolute knife’s edge. There was no reason to believe that it would go ahead without severe loss of life,” Plaut said. The Inkatha Freedom Party, which represented the Zulu population, South Africa’s largest ethnic group, had not reconciled with the African National Congress (ANC). Amid divisions that were stoked, in part, by the old apartheid regime, hundreds died ahead of the election, Plaut said. A political party, unnamed, but most likely the ANC hired Cambridge Analytica to mitigate election violence, according to the company’s website. Their exact role in the election hasn’t been independently verified, but the violence subsided during and after the historic vote for Mandela and the ANC. Involvement in Kenya, Nigeria More recently, Cambridge Analytica worked with Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Party not to build consensus, but rather to exploit divisions to re-elect President Uhuru Kenyatta. The firm designed a campaign strategy based on interviews with nearly 50,000 potential voters gathered over three months. Their work with the Jubilee Party had been widely suspected but unconfirmed. But in an undercover video broadcast this week on Britain’s Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica executive Mark Turnbull boasted that the company and its parent, SCL Group, ran the Kenyatta campaign. “We have rebranded the entire party twice, written the manifesto, done huge amounts of research, analysis, messaging. Then we’d write all the speeches and stage the whole thing. So, just about every element of his campaign,” Turnbull said. Those elements included social media videos that played to the fears of the electorate, warning that a victory by opposition leader Raila Odinga would lead to disease, famine and terrorism. Cambridge Analytica denied any involvement with the videos or negative campaigning in Kenya. VOA reached out to both Cambridge Analytica in Washington and the SCL Group, but they did not respond to requests. Similar allegations of malfeasance have emerged in Nigeria.The Guardian reported Wednesday that Israeli hackers provided Cambridge Analytica with President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal emails. Buhari was running against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, and a Nigerian billionaire paid Cambridge Analytica $2.8 million to dig up damaging information about Buhari as part of an attack campaign, The Guardian reported. The emails included information about Buhari’s health and medical records, a source told The Guardian. Since assuming office, Buhari has taken extended medical leaves in London, because of an undisclosed illness. Precise analysis Data analysis companies such as Cambridge Analytica provide information to governments and political parties, Plaut said, to influence “people in the middle” those with moderate views who can be persuaded to join a side through appeals to emotion. These companies analyze precisely whom to target and craft messages that play on hopes and fears, not facts, according to Plaut. Social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014, provide an in-depth view into people’s likes and dislikes from which psychological profiles can be built and exploited to change behaviour through tailored messaging. Julie Owono, executive director of Internet Without Borders, a group that advocates for online freedom and privacy, told VOA’s French to Africa service that her organization has been warning about the dangers of letting companies like Facebook collect the personal data of billions of people around the world. “Since 2010, we’ve been saying that countries with low-to-nil data protection are testing ground for worst practices by companies and governments,” Owono tweeted. The ANC, South Africa’s ruling political party since the end of apartheid, has used similar techniques through its own data mining, according to Plaut. Through billboards along the highways of Johannesburg and fake social media posts, they have invested millions of dollars in messages that advance their agenda, regardless of truth. ‘Open to manipulation’ African voters, Plaut said, “are as open to manipulation as any voter in the world.” They’re a sophisticated electorate, Plaut said, that knows politicians craft and distort messages to suit their needs. But knowledge doesn’t inoculate people against the effects of disinformation. “Everybody is open to manipulation,” Plaut said. In Kenya, political advertisements played to fears surrounding terrorist group Al-Shabab and disease outbreaks. Persuasive messages about safety and health influenced an unknown number of voters, but enough to make an impact, Plaut acknowledged. African ties The role of data mining in Africa hasn’t been confined to elections. The SCL Group has extensive ties across Africa, with past projects spanning from Libya to Rwanda, and from South Sudan and Somalia all the way to Ghana, according to their website. SCL says its mission is to be “the premier provider of data analytics and strategy for behaviour change.” The kinds of behaviours they seek to influence shift, depending on their clients and partners — of whom there are many. In Rwanda, SCL partnered with World Vision, a global Christian aid organization, to conduct research on community attitudes about nutrition and sanitation. In South Sudan, SCL worked with the United Nations Development Group to conduct a survey on the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program. SCL partnered with the Ghanaian ministry of Health, along with a major British construction company, to research the country's attitudes toward the health care system. In Somalia, SCL researched the tenability of the nationwide Somtelcom telephone network. The group also interviewed nearly 3,000 Libyans to develop policy recommendations to help the government address instability countrywide. VOA reached out to John Apea, who is listed on SCL’s website as its special adviser for SCL Ghana. Apea said he no longer works with SCL and would not provide additional information about the office’s operations in the country. Safeguarding democracy The growth of digital media across Africa will present new opportunities to engage in sophisticated campaigns to influence not just voters but also policymakers and governments. The solution, according to Plaut, is international oversight. “The African Union should be much more robust in insisting on its observers going to see elections and spending a good deal of time there, not just five minutes before the vote takes place,” Plaut said. In-depth reports filed months in advance of elections will give the public the tools they need to combat propaganda with a transparent account of their governments’ efforts to ensure a free and fair process. Plaut anticipates closer scrutiny of the democratic process will lead to pushback and complaints of interference. Nonetheless, the efforts are worth it, he said. “The African Union, as the guardian of democracy in the continent, has a duty to go out there and really push for democracy throughout the continent,” Plaut said.

UK DATA FARM, CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA PLAYED ROLES IN MULTIPLE AFRICAN ELECTIONS. {My comment*** did i not remind my fellow Africans, that, Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice anywhere. Absolutely, i was betting on this coming unto us too. Most of our African Rulers are desperately idiotic of any favor that comes their way, to sustain their longetivity in power. TO MY FELLOW #AFRICANS, we shouldn't allow such hazardous history repeat again. We have the powers to block such #Data_Scandals from manipulating our elections though the elections in Africa are not yet 100% Free and Fair. We aren't naive! I am so personate about it. - Osuta Yusuf; a career Politician, Lawyer, Student for Life and Talented in Internet.} Below is the phrase! So long but if you are lazy in reading, just back off because i publish for my reader, readers only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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S. African techpreneur Elon Musk deletes Facebook pages after Twitter challenge 24 March 2018. South Africa Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users. “Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you’re the man?” a user tweeted to Tesla Chief Executive Musk. His response: “I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.” Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, which had millions of followers, are no longer accessible. I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so ... I don’t care. Musk had begun the exchange by responding to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on the #deletefacebook tag. The hashtag gained prominence after the world’s largest social network upset users by mishandling data, which ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Many users also urged the billionaire to delete the profiles of his companies on Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram. “Instagram’s probably ok … so long as it stays fairly independent,” Musk responded. “I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so … don’t care.” Musk has had run-ins with Facebook Inc (FB.O) founder Mark Zuckerberg in the past. Last year, a war of words broke out between Musk and Zuckerberg over whether robots will become smart enough to kill their human creators. When Zuckerberg was asked about Musk’s views on the dangers of robots, he chided “naysayers” whose “doomsday scenarios” were “irresponsible.” In response, Musk tweeted: “His understanding of the subject is limited.”

S. African techpreneur Elon Musk deletes Facebook pages after Twitter challenge 24 March 2018. Via @REUTERS South Africa Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users. “Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you’re the man?” a user tweeted to Tesla Chief Executive Musk. His response: “I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.” Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, which had millions of followers, are no longer accessible. I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so ... I don’t care. Musk had begun the exchange by responding to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on the #deletefacebook tag. The hashtag gained...

CONSIDERING THE DAILY HARASSMENTS OUR #WIVES, #MOTHERS AND #SISTERS GO THROUGH IN THE HANDS OF SOME OF THESE QUACK #NURSES OF UGANDA. The testimonies our labor women give after being discharged from these pathetic death trap hospitals in Uganda, is horrible. Anyway, Below is the article. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Kenyan woman wins $25,000 in damages after giving birth on hospital floor 24 March 2018. Via @ REUTERS. A woman who was verbally and physically abused after giving birth on the floor of a state-run hospital in Kenya won a landmark 2.5 million shillings ($24,789) in damages on Thursday. Josephine Majani delivered her baby on the floor of Bungoma District Hospital in 2013 because all the beds were occupied. When nurses found her lying on the ground, she said she was slapped and insulted for dirtying the hospital floor. “I was neglected, abused, and shamed during my time at Bungoma District Hospital,” said Majani in a statement. I’m hopeful that the court’s judgment today will force the government to do the right thing and ensure that all women can get the maternal healthcare they need with respect and dignity. Bungoma High Court Judge Abida Ali Aroni said the hospital had violated her right to health and dignity, adding that the authorities have failed to dedicate adequate resources for maternal healthcare across the country. “I’m hopeful that the court’s judgment today will force the government to do the right thing and ensure that all women can get the maternal healthcare they need with respect and dignity.” Kenya is one of the world’s 10 most dangerous countries for a woman to give birth, with 488 women dying of pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births, says the United Nations. About 8,000 Kenyan women die from pregnancy-related complications each year, largely due to a lack of funding for maternal health, inadequate training and supervision of health workers, negligence and unethical practices, it says. Campaigners say there are many cases like Majani’s where government hospitals are ill-equipped to provide women with free maternal services and, as a result, deny them quality health care, and sometimes subject them to severe abuse

Kenyan woman wins $25,000 in damages after giving birth on hospital floor 24 March 2018. Via @ REUTERS. A woman who was verbally and physically abused after giving birth on the floor of a state-run hospital in Kenya won a landmark 2.5 million shillings ($24,789) in damages on Thursday. Josephine Majani delivered her baby on the floor of Bungoma District Hospital in 2013 because all the beds were occupied. When nurses found her lying on the ground, she said she was slapped and insulted for dirtying the hospital floor. “I was neglected, abused, and shamed during my time at Bungoma District Hospital,” said Majani in a statement. I’m hopeful that the court’s judgment today will force the government to do the right thing and ensure that all women can get the maternal healthcare they need with respect and dignity. Bungoma High Court Judge Abida Ali Aroni said the hospital had violated her right to health and dignity, adding that the authorities have failed to dedicate ...