Uganda retains key lending rate on rising inflation

 

Bank of Uganda in Kampala. The banking regulator has maintained its Central Bank Rate at 12 per cent for the fifth consecutive month.

The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has maintained its Central Bank Rate (CBR) at 12 per cent for the fifth consecutive month as the rate of inflation edged up after dropping for two months in a row.

Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, BoU’s governor on Wednesday said that the regulator will maintain the CBR at 12 per cent this month with the inflation rate expected to remain at between 1 and 2 percentage points above the target rate of 5 per cent over the next few months.

Last week the Uganda Bureau of Statistics said that the rate of inflation edged up to 4 per cent from 3.5 per cent in February as monthly food prices rose and that core inflation which excludes food crops, energy, fuel and utilities rose to 6.8 per cent in March from 5.6 per cent.

Prof Tumusiime-Mutebile however said that later on this year the inflation rate is expected to fall back towards 5 per cent.

“Given that the medium term forecast for inflation is still in line with BoU’s target of 5 per cent, and that recovery of real output is gaining momentum, BoU will maintain a neutral monetary policy stance and hold the CBR at 12 per cent,” he said.

Health staff spends night in Sudan cell

Moyo

The health assistant of Laropi Sub-county in Moyo District spent Tuesday night in a South Sudan police cell for crossing into the country illegally.

Mr Patrick Azile was arrested by South Sudan police at the disputed area of Abaya/Wano Village, which is claimed by both countries. He was arrested on Monday and detained zat Kajo-Keji Police Cell with a government motorcycle and GPS machine that he was using to map the area for putting up boreholes.

A police officer from South Sudan, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mr Azile entered the disputed area illegally. When the district leaders learnt about the arrest, a team of six security officers led by the district vice chairperson, Mr Andrew Kajoyingi, met the Kajo-Keji County commissioner, Mr Ben Yengi, to have the official released. After two hours of talks, Mr Azile was released and handed over to the Ugandan delegation.

Mr Azile said after finishing the work, he decided to use the shortcut but he did not know that it was a ‘crime’ to use that route. “That was how I ended up being arrested by the South Sudan police at Abaya. But I was not tortured except that the room was small with no proper ventilation,” he said.

Mr Yengi told journalists that he plans to have talks with the Moyo District Council over the land. Two years ago, the border with South Sudan was closed thrice after violent protests over similar arrests.

Mr Charles Madrara, a resident, said their plea to resolve the land matter has not been taken up seriously by leaders. “We are looked at as ground nuts in the garden where rats can eat at any time. The failure to resolve this conflict has created a lot of misery and untold suffering,” he said.

Disputes over border land has been central in disrupting relationship between Ugandan residents and their South Sudanese counterparts. This has at times affected business between the two countri

Please Lean On Me

Hyena Consoles Heartbroken Babe, Shafts Her Lame. 2013 IS a good year for Hyena and like the Chinese say a year with a 6 belongs to a dragon, me i say a year with a 7 belongs to Hyena because the way am shafting women, the sky is the limit. If God isn’t careful, I will end up shafting with one of his Angels. God sent Prophet Muwanguzi to do miracles but he sent me to please all the unpleased women, to impregnant all the ‘un pregnantable’ women so all you ladies with, similar problems call Hot Drive for my directions.

Anyway today it is about Peace, some beautiful teacher and part time banker. She is so beautiful that I think God had a hand in creating her himself (no disrespect intended). I have been begging for her goods for 7 months and she kept on telling me that she was still studying me, how I hate that word ‘studying me’!As if I’m Egypt! She kept tossing me but later I got to learn that she was shafting with some guy called Tom who was working with the UN.A week after Easter, I met her in Angenior with this Tom guy and she blinked one eye, rose her eyebrows and laughed at me. I said a duwa for her. At 1am, she came running to me saying, “Please get me out of this place.

She was sobbing so I took her out to my car.“Hyena, Tom has been making a fool of me, can you imagine I’ve just found him fingering some bitch!” she cried out to me. “What! I wish Lubega had found him. So where do I take you?” I asked sympathetically.

“Take me anywhere, as long as it isn’t my place. I’m feeling so heartbroken Hyena,” she confessed. There’s no better chance to shaft a babe than when she is heartbroken and she runs to you! Off to Dolphin Suites in Bugolobi I sped. She cried all the way and I truly felt sorry for her. She even kept on crying when we got inside the room. I surely had nothing to say to her to feel well since I wasn’t good at baby sitting. It reached a point and I got bored and just wanted to sleep because I was counting that as a dead long night. As I was still trying to catch up with some sleep, I heard her say to me, “I feel so angry for having been used by Tom.”“I perfectly understand what it feels my dear,” I consoled her. “All I need from you Hyena now is a shaft; I believe it will make me feel much better,” she confessed to me.

“Are you sure that’s what you want? I asked just to make sure I had heard right. “Yes, you’ve heard, shaft me now or you get out of the room and find me someone to do it for me if you can’t” she said.
“Oh God, she’s damn serious,’ I said to myself. And for the first time, I was stuck where to start from! After a lot of thinking, I started by pulling off her mini skirt and I felt her smooth G-string. The whopper hardened as I felt her smooth hairy legs. I fingered her for some minutes and then condomised the whopper.

I started rubbing on her tweenies and this made her moan. She wrapped her hands around me making our chests get into contact. Her sharp boobs were piercing me and it killed me!I pushed in half of the whopper and I could tell that she had already cum! When I slid it in completely, ‘she died’!

I navigated all her walls; east, west, south I shafted, just like any other professional would do. All of a sudden, she let out a loud cry as if someone was strangling her. She then lay still like was had died. My heart missed a beat!I got off her, switched on the light and found her lying in el-nino, with her eyes wide open and pepper red! She was looking like she was high on drugs! I couldn’t believe that this babe was still crying! Tears were flowing uncontrollably! I pulled a bed sheet and covered her, she seemed stiff. I went to the bathroom and had a cold shower because my whopper was still demanding!

I sneaked into bed still scared that something wrong mighty happen to her in my company.As sleep was over powering me, I heard her move her slim body closer to my chest and she then coiled on me like a child on her mother.
“Eeeh… she has resurrected”

I said to myself. And since I hadn’t had enough of her, my whopper shot again. I reached for a CD and started the game allover again. We woke up very early in the morning and I dropped her at her house. Whenever I need her, I just drive to her home and she’s always welcoming. Now last week, I got a call from a certain Tom warning that I should leave his wife alone. Can you imagine!
Till then, I remain yours truly, the mighty Hyena.

First political prisoners freed in Sudan under amnesty

 Sudan President Omar al Bashir ordered the release of the prisoners

Sudanese authorities released six political prisoners early on Tuesday,  after President Omar al-Bashir vowed to free all political detainees.
The six men walked free to tearful relatives waiting outside Kober Prison in Khartoum North.
Most of them are believed to have been held for more than two months in connection with a conference in Uganda in January, which led to a charter for toppling Bashir’s 24-year regime using both armed and peaceful means.
Farouk Abu Issa, who heads the opposition alliance of more than 20 parties, could not be immediately reached for comment.
The US-based Human Rights Watch had called in February for the detained opposition party members to be charged or freed.
Mashood Adebayo Baderin, the UN’s independent expert on human rights in Sudan, also expressed concern about the “detention of political opposition figures and other individuals” by the national security service.
In a speech opening a new session of parliament on Monday, Bashir said all political prisoners would be freed as the government seeks a broad political dialogue, a move welcomed by the opposition as tensions ease with South Sudan.
“We confirm we will continue our communication with all political and social powers without excluding anyone, including those who are armed, for a national dialogue which will bring a solution to all the issues,” the president said.
But opposition members are waiting to see whether prisoners belonging to the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North will be among those set free.
The SPLM-N has been fighting government forces for almost two years in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states and had been demanding a prisoner release, according to the political opposition.
Farouk Mohammed Ibrahim, of the Sudanese Organisation for Defence of Rights and Freedoms, said there are “a large number” of detainees in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. These include 118 SPLM-N prisoners whose cases are being handled by his organisation in southern Blue Nile alone.
Ibrahim said on Tuesday that it is not yet clear whether those 118 will be included in the release.
SPLM-N chairman Malik Agar declined to comment on Bashir’s announcement, saying he was “not sure which political prisoners he is referring to”.
A diplomatic source late Monday called Bashir’s statements positive but said it is too early to know where they are leading.
“We should wait until we see clear results,” said the source, asking for anonymity. “Action is what counts here in Sudan.”
Bashir’s speech elaborated on an offer made last week by Vice President Ali Osman Taha, who reached out to the SPLM-N and opposition political parties, whom he invited to join a constitutional dialogue.
Sudan needs a new constitution to replace the 2005 document based on a peace agreement which ended a 23-year civil war and led to South Sudan’s separation in July 2011.
Bashir’s regime had long rejected negotiations with the insurgents.







  

Rwanda Sets Tough Conditions For M23 Rebels Seeking Asylum

The Government of Rwanda says the 682 M23 rebels who were loyal to former leader Bishop Jean Marie Runiga must denounce military activities in writing before applying for asylum.
Rwandan Minister for Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs, Seraphine Mukantabana, says the rebels who crossed to Rwanda during clashes with the Sultani Makenga group cannot be considered as refugees in Rwanda until they denounce rebellion.
Mukantabana further revealed that the Rwandan government has transferred the former soldiers from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo to another place known as Ngoma far away from the border. She says the international norms dictate that in a situation armed rebels cross into another country, they are supposed to be relocated to a place far from the border of their country.
Mukantabana says the rebels will be screened before they can be given a chance to apply for refugee status under the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
The minister, however, says that leaving Ngoma facility will be a gradual process depending on the ranks the rebels held while in the bush, adding that those with lower ranks will leave earlier than their senior commanders.
The minister says she is frustrated by the failure of the international community to support Rwanda in managing the influx of rebel fighters and other refugees in the country.
The rebels crossed into Rwanda more than a week ago around the same time that war-lord Bosco Ntaganda, an ally of Runiga, surrendered to the US embassy in Kigali. He has since been taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The United Nations has accused Rwanda and Uganda of supporting the M23 rebels who have been fighting the Kinshasa government since April last year

Gunmen shoot dead two officers

Gunmen shot dead two Kenyan policemen Tuesday in the latest attack in the restive border region with war-torn Somalia, a top policeman said.

"The officers were attacked while on patrol," said regional police chief Charlton Mureithi, of the attack in the eastern garrison town of Garissa.

"Two of them were killed, and the other one has been taken to hospital with injuries," he added.

Kenya has suffered a string of attacks since its troops invaded southern Somalia in late 2011 to attack Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabaab insurgents.

Attackers have set off bombs and hurled grenades in the capital Nairobi, while gunmen have killed both security officials and civilians along Kenya's border with Somalia.

The attacks are regularly blamed on Al Shabaab insurgents or their sympathisers, although the extremists do not specifically claim the killings.

The Al Shabaab still control large parts of southern Somalia, despite African Union troops, allied Somali forces and Ethiopian soldiers having wrested control of several key towns from them.

Kenya: Police Hunt down unknown people who raided Prime Minister Raila Odinga's firm

A team of detectives has been tasked to hunt down unknown people who raided Prime Minister Raila Odinga's firm East Africa Spectre Limited in Nairobi's Industrial Area and vandalised property before carting away hundreds of empty gas cylinders.
Police say they are yet to get the two guards who were on duty when the raid happened on Sunday night. The gang escaped with two lorries full of the LPG gas cylinders.
Officials said the assailants stole more than 600 empty LPG gas cylinders valued at Sh3 million and vandalized two vehicles that were parked there. The firm said they lost 266 gas cylinders (13kgs) and 413 gas cylinders (6kgs) in the robbery. Police say they are zeroing on the guards whose mobile phones are still switched off.
The firm manufactures and revalidates empty gas cylinders for various oil companies and the ones that were stolen had been ordered by Total petroleum. The gang had initially loaded empties with Oilibya labels but realized they did not have valves.