NEWS UPDATES AT 9 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE. A 3day management and leadership training conference of EAC judiciaries is underway. Five judges of the East African Community member states are in Kampala to learn judicial skills with effective integration a focus point. During the opening of the workshop yesterday, the acting Chief Justice of Uganda Steven Kavuma said that respective states have to play very critical roles of nurturing peace that will lead to stability and wealth creation in the region. Uganda is expected to try perpetrators of torture under the new Anti-torture Act. Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has said that despite torture being crimnalised under the Anti- torture Act 2012, no one has been tried and convicted under it. UHRC director of complaints, investigations and legal services department Ruth Ssekindi has called upon different partners such as government to work hand in hand to fight the vice. The act subjects any person found guilty of torture to 15 years of jail time or a fine of 7.2 million shillings or both. The rough winds on Lake Victoria common during the months of June and July have claimed many lives. The recent being two fishermen only identified as Kalyango and Kulaisi who have died after drowning in Lake Victoria at Ddimu Landing Site in Kyesiiga sub-county Masaka district. Witnesses say that the deceased’s boat capsized. Iraqs Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels. He warned that such calls represented a coup against the constitution and an attempt to end the democratic experience.” The US has led appeals to the countrys political leaders to rise above sectarian and ethnic divisions. Government forces have been unable to recapture the territory seized by the rebels this month. Almost half of the 300 US military advisers assigned to help the Iraqi security forces have arrived. Fighting was reported to have continued yesterday, with an attack by rebels on the Balad airbase, about 80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. Also yesterday, a suicide bombing outside the main market in the northern city of Kirkuk left at least two people dead and many more injured. South Koreas Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, who offered to quit in April over the Sewol ferry disaster, will keep his job. President Park Geun-hye (park goon hey) announced she would retain Mr Chung, a decision she said was agonising. Two candidates whom she handpicked have attracted controversy, prompting them to withdraw their nominations. Her administration has come under fire for the 16 April ferry sinking that killed about 300 people. Ms Park has already carried out a Cabinet reshuffle and replaced presidential secretaries, as well as promised reform of the bureaucracy to stamp out corruption and inefficiency. RADIOCITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:11:22 +0000
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