NEWS UPDATE @ 3PM WITH Orange Uganda: “PLEASE STAY CALM”: Kyambogo University Vice Chancellor, Prof Isaiah Omollo Ndiege has asked the students to desist from striking and rather give the university council two more days to resolve the issue concerning the university lecturers. Anti-riot police had earlier today deployed at Kyambogo University where striking lecturers insisted they will not conduct lectures in protest of the reinstatement of the vice chancellor. The lecturers say they cannot work under Ndiege whom they accuse of mismanaging the institution. R.I.P: Brigadier Albert Kareeba, who has been battling illness for the last two years, has passed away. Brig Kareeba was the Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II during the 2007 Commonwealth Summit in Uganda. MORE FLOODS: Residents of Kilembe zone in Kasese district are having sleepless nights amid fear as R. Nyamwamba starts to flood again with the approaching heavy downpours in the area. The residents fear comes with the flashback of the May 2013 heavy rains which caused disaster. River Nyamwamba was flooded to washing away hundreds of homesteads, displacing people and destroying property worth millions of shillings. REFUGEES TO GO BACK HOME: More than a million Somali refugees in Kenya are to be sent back home over the next three years following the signing of an agreement, between the two nations. The agreement is a joint plan not just to send the refugees home, but also have them re-integrated in Somali society once they get there. 20 CHILDREN POISONED: An orphanage employee will appear in court after 20 children, mostly orphans at a care centre in a township outside Pretoria were rushed to hospital suffering the effects of suspected poisoning, police has said. The centre houses 42 abandoned children as well as orphans whose parents died of AIDS, according to local media. MIRACLE BABY: A baby girl has been born in a destroyed airport compound that was turned into a makeshift medical centre, with her bed a piece of dirty plywood, broken glass, twisted metal, nails and other debris. The girl was named after her mother who was swept away when giant waves generated by Super Typhoon Haiyan surged into their home near Tacloban city, and has since not been seen. RADIOCITY NEWS: WE BRING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:05:58 +0000
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