In yet another major milestone, 18 Coke Studio Africa artists are among Africa’s top celebrated stars nominated at the 2017 edition of the annual All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), set to take place this November. The nominees were unveiled this August at Renaissance Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria revealing Coke Studio Africa – 2017 artists: Yemi Alade, Alikiba, AKA, Runtown, Nasty C, Eddy Kenzo, Locko, Anselmo Ralph, Jah Prayzah, Busiswa, Amanda Black, Kiff No Beat, Mafikizolo, Micasa, Bebe Cool, Nyashinski, Olamide and Nandi among nominees in AFRIMA’s regional and continental preliminaries. This year’s nominee list includes 33 categories, 10 regional and 23 genre-based categories, with Coke Studio stars bagging 25 nomination slots.
Eddy Kenzo at the Coke studio
Fresh off releasing her new EP: “Mama Afrique”, multi-award winning Nigerian artist Yemi Alade returns to the show for the fourth time this year performing alongside French Congolese rapper Youssoupha. She has been nominated in the Best Female Artiste in Western Africa category. Another Nigerian star, Runtown, of the “Mad Over You” hit has been nominated in the coveted category of Best Male Artiste in Western Africa up against Nigerian heavy weights Davido and Wizkid. Runtown makes his debut on Coke Studio Africa this year paired alongside Africa’s coolest kid: Nasty C.
2017 is a great year already for Eddy Kenzo! He just released his new album “BIOLOGY” and returns to Coke Studio for a second time paired alongside Ghanaian artist Bisa Kdei. He is among the AFRIMA nominees in the category of Best Male Artiste in Eastern Africa together with Coke Studio king from Tanzania: Alikiba. AFRIMA category of Best Male Artiste in Central Africa includes Coke Studio stars: Anselmo Ralph (Angola) and Locko (Cameroon) both making their debut on the show this year. On the show Anselmo Ralph is paired with Mi Casa (South Africa) and Locko is paired with Tresor (South Africa/Congo). Eddy Kenzo has also been nominated for the Video of the Year category, Album of the Year in Africa, Artiste of the year in Africa and Song of the Year.
From South Africa, Coke Studio rappers: Nasty C and AKA are nominated in the Best Male Artiste in Southern Africa, alongside Zimbabwean music general Jah Prayzah who collaborates with Mozambique’s Mr. Bow and Ugandan artist Ykee Benda on his Coke Studio debut this year. South African divas: Busiswa and Amanda Black will battle it out in the category of Best Female Artiste in Southern Africa. While Busiswa has been paired with Zambian artist Slap Dee on the show, Amanda Black collaborated with Ghanaian “Tonga” star: Joey B.
In subsequent AFRIMA nominations other Coke Studio stars have been nominated in the continental categories. They include Kiff No Beat (Ivory Coast) Mafikizolo and Mi Casa (South Africa) in the Best African Group category. For the Best Artist or Group in African Contemporary category, the nominees include Anselmo Ralph (Angola) and Alikiba (Tanzania). Aje by Alikiba Ft. MI has also been nominated in the category of Best Collaboration alongside Jah Prayzah’s Watora Mari ft Diamond and Supporter by Locko Ft. Mr Leo.
Bebe Cool with Falz after a recording session in the studio
Uganda’s King of dancehall Bebe Cool is among the nominees for Best Artist or Group in African Reggae, Ragga and Dancehall. The other categories in the continental awards that are aimed at shaping the narrative of African Music across the globe include: Best Artist or Group in African Hip Hop AKA (South Africa), Nasty C (South Africa); Best Artist or Group in African R&B and Soul – Alikiba (Tanzania), Anselmo Ralph (Angola); Best Artist in African Pop – Locko (Cameroon) and Yemi Alade (Nigeria).
The African Fans Favourite category has also attracted 10 nominees, with two going to Coke Studio stars; Nyashinski (Kenya) and Olamide (Nigeria). Other categories with Coke Studio stars include; Songwriter of the Year category – Anselmo Ralph, Revelation of The Year – Nasty C and Runtown, Producer of the Year and Song of the Year – Runtown.
Public voting is open! Vote for your favourite Coke Studio Africa stars via www.afrima.org
City party Marion Ryabureire doesn’t only know how to party but also studies. Latest info reaching our desk has it, Marion who graduated at Makerere University with a bachelors is law two years back this week she graduated again with a masters degree.
She has specialised in tax consultancy. Currently Marion plies her trade at her father’s law firm in Kampala. Sources say she plans to fly abroad for her PhD if all goes well now that her Masters is done.
Close pals say she is too excited upon completing her master’s degree and has been throwing endless parties to celebrate the achievement. Congrats Marion!!!!
“Life is indeed a journey and sometimes success seems to be so far away but i believe with God everything is possible. Meet the latest Tax Consultant in town,” Marion Ryabureire.
Sweden based music star Jay Platnumz has hired experienced Tony Ocean Kulaba as his music promoter. Tony was signed to circulate the music under his label Ocean Media International.
Jay Platnumz
Jay has hired Ocean in the wake of releasing his two hit songs titled ‘Cheri’ and ‘Shake Body’. His song ‘Cheri’ is nominated this year in Africa Crown Awards International in the category of the best video of 2017.
Jay Platnumz is an African artist based in Sweden but originally from Congo and Tanzania. He does music like afrobeat, dancehall and many more. He previously lived in Uganda.
We can exclusively reveal that after Angella and her brothers inheriting their great dad’s empire and all the riches around the city including Hotel Diplomate in Muyenga, Angella Katatumba is on a roll.
Our snoops intimated to us that the Acting Honorary Consul of Pakistan in Uganda and renowned singer and philanthropist is now on the international scene.
She has flown to Vienna, Austria for a series of music performances. Angella has been invited to Vienna by the Kenyan Diaspora Fraternity who are madly in love with her music.
For her first show, Angella is confirmed to perform as the headline guest artiste on the 09th of September, 2017 at 7PM at the ‘African Gala’ at Längenfeldgasse 13-15 Street 1120, Vienna. Angella will be joined by Hottensiah Muchai, DJ 65, DJ Willy Muhozi and the Kichanga Brothers. Revelers will part with €10 advance and €15 for those paying at the gate to watch the beautiful Ugandan diva.
She has also been booked until October to perform on tour in other European countries of UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Berlin, Germany and Belgium.
It should be remembered that the Philanthropist was awarded big at the recently concluded Uganda Music Awards at Kampala Serena Hotel where she won the prestigious Best Humanitarian Award.
The year 2016 was an amazing one for the diva.
On top of her UGX 25M cash donation to Mulago and Uganda Cancer Institute who then appointed her the face of the Institute, she landed a deal to perform for President Kenyatta Uhuru at Kampala Serena Hotel, she was invited by Banki-Moon to attend and perform at the first ever UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul Turkey, as well as to perform at the African Union Symposium in Nairobi and finally being appointed as the Uganda Bikers Ambassador.
It seems Angella’s star is consistently on the rise.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta today said the will of millions of Kenyans, expressed by a huge majority in August 8th elections, will not be subverted by the Supreme Court.
President Kenyatta, accompanied by Deputy President William Ruto on a tour of Nairobi, called on Kenyans to maintain peace in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision that annulled the election without giving details of its ruling.
“I believe the will and the choice of Kenyans will prevail. They will prove the ruling of the four judges wrong,” said President Kenyatta in reference to the split 4-2 Supreme Court ruling.
The President spoke when he addressed people at Burma Market, Jua Kali and Muthurwa in Nairobi on his first meet-the-people-tour ahead of hitting the campaign trail once again.
President Kenyatta said there was no need for Kenyans to fight with each other over the election, saying they should continue with their daily activities peaceful even as the country prepares for another round of presidential election.
“I urge every Kenyan, shake hands with your neighbours and tell them that it does not matter what tribe they belong to, their political affiliation, religion or colour, we are all Kenyans and what is important is peace,” said the President.
The President said despite his misgivings, he will abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling, which directed the electoral agency IEBC to hold fresh elections within 60 days.
President Kenyatta thanked Kenyans for voting overwhelming for the Jubilee Party and urged them to uphold peace as the country prepares to go for a second round of presidential election.
He said the Court’s ruling has given him a chance to continue serving Kenyans as a sitting President and not as a President-elect. Top on his agenda is working with Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko to transform the city county.
“Be prepared to see rehabilitation of Burma Market, cleaning up of the city and improvement of roads. And we will start this work in the Eastlands area where a majority of the residents live,” President Kenyatta said.
Deputy President Ruto said Kenyans are ready to endorse their choice and called on the IEBC to set a date for Round Two of the Presidential election, saying this time Jubilee will win with over 70 per cent.
The Deputy President said Jubilee is ready for a fresh election and Kenyans will get a chance to express their sovereign will to shame those who refused to concede defeat.
“On 8 August we defeated our competitors, Kenyans voted for a majority of Jubilee candidates in the position of governors, senators, women representatives and members of county assembly. We are now telling the IEBC to put up a new timetable for election and we will again win with majority, this time round not with 54 per cent but with over 70 per cent,” said the Deputy President.
The President and Deputy President were accompanied by a host of Jubilee leaders including Governors Mike Mbuvi Sonko (Nairobi), Samuel Ole Tunai (Narok) and Moses Lenolkulal (Samburu), National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen.
Curvy singer Desire Luzinda who last Friday threw a mega birthday party dubbed Black and Gold birthday party to celebrate her ‘25th’ year has scoffed at those she said are bothered by her age.
Desire Luzinda
Those who are bothered by my 25 years, should take rat poison, she told this website. She went to post the statement on her social media wall.
“If you are bothered about the 25 take rat poison. Chapter closed. Click below for kale Video. https://youtu.be/-wePfwAcN_0,” Desire posted.
Meanwhile Desire has released a new video titled ‘What a Man’. As she wished the entire nation a happy eid, the singer went to post the link of her new video and we must say it is amazing and one of her best.
“Happy EID MUBARACK to you all. Here is my Latest Video “What A Man”. Click below for a full Video from my YouTube channel and kindly subscribe for More Desire Luzinda Music. https://youtu.be/WtHPxL7sad4,” Desire posted.
A new Casino is coming to town this Saturday. All roads lead to Open House on Buganda Road as Sunset Casino comes into operation. Diva Lillian Mbabazi and her band Sundowners will entertain guests alongside Oriental Fire from South Africa.
“Lots to win! Lots to Eat!, Sunset Casino Grand Opening. Located along Buganda Road, just next to Watoto Central Come and have an experience like never before. Come play. Come Win. Sunset Casino. Where the winners play”
The NRM right from Inception, Put land in the hands of the People. This is not about to change. And If you Study our land Policies & compare them with those of other countries, you will appreciate how tilted they are, in favor of the citizens than in many other jurisdictions.
Frank Tumwebaze
The proposed amendment bill therefore, is not reversing any of these policies. It only seeks to provide for how to resolve quickly disputes on Compensation values, without defeating the principle of compulsory acquisition of land for Public Interest developments, which the 1995 Constitution framers correctly provided for.
There are numerous cases of individuals either wanting to sabotage Projects with unreasonable disputes or to overprice and cheat Public funds. How do u explain for example, a case of one person refusing the given value of shs 80 million and asking for shs 1 billion along Kamwenge-Fort Portal Road for less than an acre of land?. Very Unreasonable & anti-public interest. Certainly government can’t afford all that money. And why would one person out of the many that agreed, jeopardize the interests of all by delaying a public good? This is the logic we need to look at.
By industrializing and linking the hinterland 2 the market through faster development of infrastructure (physical and technological), land owners get real value. Any delays therefore, impact badly on our livelihoods as a people and as a country. That is what Public Interest means and it’s good for us all, political sides notwithstanding. Let all of us understand & resist the Irresponsible politicking on this issue of Land for Public Interest developments.
Meanwhile the Minister has applauded President Yoweri Museveni for recognising ICT as another sector for job creation. Its only through innovations that ICT can create jobs.
Today sees the release of Emtee’s highly anticipated album. The album, named after Emtee’s late hero Manando, was available for pre-order and fan’s received three free singles upon pre-ordering.
“Manando was my Ghetto Hero who always used to protect me when I was growing up because I was always bullied when I was growing up” he explained. The album, which reached the number 1 spot just seconds after its release, its jam-packed with reference to his career, his journey as well as his life.
Manando lists 20 Tracks with features from International sensation, Tiwa Savage, Saudi, Sjava as well as Njabulo. Notable tracks that can be taken of Manando are highly praised Ghetto Hero and hit single titled Corner Store.
Emtee’s sophomore album comes after the widely acclaimed Avery, which went Platinum and won the African Trap Mogul 12 awards. With most artists exploring the possibility of mainstream stardom by sticking to light, superficial themes, Emtee knows no other way but to be as graphic and honest as possible with his content.
The new body of work can be purchased on iTunes and is available at Musica stores.
At Huawei Connect 2017 Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre, Joy Huang, Vice President of Huawei’s IT Product Line, in a keynote speech titled “All Connected, All Cloud, All Intelligent”, announced six innovative solutions designed to help enterprises with digital transformation. The new solutions include innovations in hardware, software, data, connection, architecture, and hybrid cloud.
At the same time, Huawei also shared success stories and best practices learned in working with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Company Ltd. on digital transformation.
Joy Huang, Vice President, IT Product Line, Huawei, gave a keynote speech
“The digital transformation in many industries will bring human beings to an intelligent world in the future, and innovation will be the driving force of the revolution,” said Joy Huang. “Increasingly, innovation will take place in the cloud, and the cloud will need the all-round strength. Huawei Cloud is committed to be an enabler of intelligent world, delivering continuous innovations of technologies and capabilities on Huawei Cloud to help customers succeed in their digital transformation.”
Presenting its innovation in hardware, software, data, connection, architecture, and hybrid cloud:
Hardware innovation: Atlas is Huawei’s new-generation intelligent cloud hardware platform. In the scenarios of the public cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC), Atlas pools resources of graphics processing units (GPUs), hard disk drives (HDDs), and solid state drives (SSDs) using heterogeneous resource pools and intelligent orchestration. The platform provides on-demand hardware resources to meet the requirements of different service models, doubling resource utilization. In addition, logic servers can be deployed within seconds, supporting quick service rollout.
Software innovation: Huawei DevCloud enables tools, capabilities, and process services on Huawei Cloud, sharing Huawei’s accumulated development experience with enterprises.
Data innovation: Huawei Cloud enterprise intelligence (EI) services assist enterprises in data innovation to create an intelligent world. Huawei Cloud not only offers platform services, such as deep learning, graph analysis, and search, but also AI services, such as image tagging, intelligent audits, graph rebuilding, automated handling of customs declarations using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and intelligent packing, enabling smarter enterprises. To meet the enterprise requirements for a distributed IT architecture, Huawei introduced three secure and reliable distributed database services on Huawei Cloud, including the distributed Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) enterprise data warehouse LibrA, distributed Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) enterprise database Derecho, and distributed MySQL database Taurus.
Connection innovation: Huawei Cloud Internet of Things (IoT) platform is a full-stack platform that includes SIM card management, device management, and application enablement layer, having features of secure connection, cross-industry ecosystem, and easy integration. The platform provides a wide spectrum of industry enabling suites and templates, so that Huawei Cloud better matches IoT and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) scenarios.
Architecture innovation: Huawei Cloud released the FusionCloud Stack solution and introduced enterprise storage services with 99.9999% reliability. As an extended module of the public cloud, FusionCloud Stack can be deployed in enterprises’ data centers. If the network connecting to the public cloud fails, the local system can continue to provide services to enterprises. This solution maintains a consistent user experience of the public cloud, more secure data sovereignty, low latency, and zero local maintenance, helping migrating enterprises’ mission-critical services to cloud securely.
Hybrid cloud innovation: The FusionBridge hybrid cloud solution is based on the OpenStack cloud platform, with an innovative injection cascading architecture that is used to implement homogeneous or heterogeneous hybrid cloud. This solution provides a cross-cloud unified service catalog to shield the differentiation of using multiple cloud platforms. With an undifferentiated cross-cloud service image using HyperContainer, cross-cloud Overlay network automation, and unified vAPP deployment service, the solution easily implements cross-cloud distributed deployment and on-demand expansion of customer services. FusionBridge also provides customers with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) portal to help customers reduce workloads and simplify cross-cloud management.
In the Era of Cloud 2.0, technologies, such as cloud computing, big data, AI, and IoT, will make use of data and scenario innovations of industrial enterprises. Huawei Cloud works with partners to provide differentiated cloud, big data, and AI services, meeting the customer requirements of increasingly complex scenarios.
“Holding the principle that science and technology are the primary productive forces, ICBC has emphasized technical innovations in the definition of the future-oriented smart bank and established multiple innovative laboratories,” said Wang Xiaoping, Fellow of the Software Development Center, ICBC. “As one of ICBC’s important partners, Huawei makes joint innovations with ICBC and provides great support for the development of ICBC’s next-generation big data platform, so that big data can better serve multiple businesses, such as customer marketing, risk control, customer service, and operating management.”
Tang Teng, VP of Product Planning, Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Company Ltd., introduced their new “5A+” strategy and the key services layout of the transformation to mobility services. In 2020, Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile will work with leading partners in ICT and Internet fields to launch various mobility services, such as social ride sharing, car sharing & infotainment, and fleet management, and build the ICT integrated IoV platform.
With 10 years of cloud computing experience, Huawei grows with customers through continuous technology advancement. Since the Cloud BU’s formation in March 2017, it has seen a 238% increase in Huawei’s cloud user base, and has released 40 new cloud services, including the data warehouse service, advanced DDoS service, and CDN service. As of now, Huawei has released a total number of 85 cloud services. In the meantime, over 4,500 new features have been added to Huawei Cloud. Today, 197 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list and 45 companies in the Fortune Global 100 have chosen Huawei as their digital transformation partner.
HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei’s flagship event for the global ICT industry, was held at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre from September 5-7. The theme is Grow with the Cloud. Huawei will be exploring how to realize new growth through digital transformation together with its customers and partners at this global platform for open collaboration.
Legendary Ugandan singer Jose Chameleone has officially released dates for concerts in Europe starting next month.
The ‘Bayuda’ singer will kick off the tour with a show in Cologne Germany on 6th October before heading to Amsterdam, Holland on 7th October. He will then perform in Paris, France on 14th October.
On 20th October, he will be in Geneva and 21st in Zurich all in Switzerland. He will then have a break for a week and the resume with a show in in Sweden on October 27th. Then on November 3rd, he will perform in Helsinki, Finland before heading to Denmark on November 4th. He will finish his tour with performance in London on 11th November 201. The singer has called on his fans to get ready for the Musical Marathon.
Standard Charted Band and MTN Uganda Limited have signed an agreement to allow MTN Mobile Money collections for Corporate and Business clients directly into their Standard Chartered Bank accounts on real time basis. This solution is dubbed Straight2Bank Wallet Collections and will be delivered through the bank’s Straight2Bank electronic banking platform.
Mr. Albert R. Salts on, Standard Chartered Bank’s Chief Executive Officer while delivering his remarks commended the collaboration with MTN Uganda saying the service will enhance the Bank’s client proposition and ability to extend its world-class financial services to clients countrywide.
“One of our strategic aspirations as Standard Chartered Bank is to be the Main Digital Bank for our customers and this commitment is reaffirmed by the launch of the Straight2Bank Wallet Collections solution today. We will continue to invest in technology to keep pace with local and global developments. As a result the bank in the recent past set aside USD 1.5 billion to be invested in technology and process upgrade globally over three years. As part of this journey, Standard Chartered Bank Uganda has invested in digital innovations such as; upgrade of the online banking platform, launch of Mobile App, introduction of mobile wallets, Cash Deposit Machines and the replacement of ATMs across our network.
Client centricity remains a core priority for the bank as we continue to build on our expertise and capabilities to support clients in capturing the opportunities presented by the global move towards a cashless society,” Saltson said.
While addressing the guests, Mr. Wim Vanhelleputte, CEO of MTN Uganda said ; “Since inception, MTN Mobile Money has played a remarkable role in fostering financial inclusion in Uganda. Initially offering a platform for our customers to cash in and cash out, MTN Mobile Money’s service offering has undergone several modifications to include bills and taxes payment, purchase of goods and services, defied existing geographical borders to enable customers to send and receive money internationally in real time. Just earlier this week, we launched a partnership with National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to enable millions of unbanked Ugandans remit their social security payments to the fund to save for their future and a better retirement.
Adding,”Today it gives me the utmost pleasure therefore, to announce an addition to our Mobile Money product offering in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank as we launch the Straight2Bank Wallet Collections Service. As MTN, we attest to a time tested Mobile Money service which we guarantee will offer your customers convenience and ease of transaction, which is safe and secure with real time reconciliation. We continue to complement the banking sector in fostering financial inclusion in Uganda”.
Key features of Straight2Bank Wallet Collections are:
Enabling Corporate and Business clients to receive MTN Mobile Money payments directly into their bank account (s) on a real time basis.
Automatic, real time email notifications, along with online reporting
Risks associated with handling cash payments are mitigated
Promoting financial inclusion
The head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered Bank Uganda Mr. Keval Bid, added, “The Straight2Bank Wallet Collections solution is another way we are relieving some of the operational pressures of our corporate clients so they can focus more time and energy on running their core business more efficiently and profitably. Standard Chartered currently provides cash management solutions for more than 900 companies in Uganda, with more than 70% of those companies using our award winning online portal, Straight2Bank.”
Dr Robin Kibuka, Board Chairman for Standard Chartered Bank Uganda thanked MTN Uganda for partnering with Standard Chartered Bank to increase access to financial services and ultimately contributing to Bank of Uganda’s goals of financial inclusion. He adde, “As the pioneer of Mobile Money in Uganda, you helped start a revolution that has increased the penetration of financial services. W are proud to be associated with you and recognise tremendous contribution you continue to make towards Uganda’s economic growth and individual livelihoods.
To our dear customers, thank you for banking with us. We value your loyalty and pledge to continue innovating and developing solutions that guarantee value for both your business and individual growth.”
The service will significantly lower operating costs and risks associated with managing cash, shorten the debt collection period and ultimately help to boost efficiency in the working capital management for Standard Chartered’s corporate clients.
Annual Global Burden of Disease study – world’s largest scientific collaboration on population health reveals new trends in illnesses, deaths, and risk factors leading to poor health
Life expectancy is growing in Uganda but the country continues to struggle with communicable diseases like HIV and malaria, as well as neonatal ailments that kill infants.
Globally, countries have saved more lives over the past decade, especially among children under age 5, but persistent health problems, such as obesity, conflict, and mental illness, comprise a “triad of troubles,” and prevent people from living long, healthy lives, according to a new scientific study.
“Life expectancy in Uganda is growing, but communicable diseases like HIV, malaria, and lower respiratory infection are still taking the lives of far too many Ugandans. Children are at particular risk, and neonatal ailments like sepsis, pre-term birth, and encephalopathy kill thousands of infants. There is still a lot of work to be done by all concerned stakeholders and players in ensuring that the health of the people of Uganda is further improved to achieve even better strides towards improving the quality of life and our life expectancy as a nation,” said Dr. Dan Kajungu, Executive Director – Makerere University Centre for Health and Population Research (MUCHAP)
This year’s version of the annual Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD) is composed of five peer-reviewed papers, and was published today in the international medical journal The Lancet. The five papers provide in-depth analyses of life expectancy and mortality, causes of death, overall disease burden, years lived with disability, and risk factors that lead to health loss.
Jane Aceng, Uganda’s Minister of Health
The study’s main findings for Uganda include:
A Ugandan man born in 2016 can expect to live 59.8 years, an increase in life expectancy of 8 years over the past decade. A woman has a life expectancy of 64.8 years, up 9.2 years from 2006.
But illness and injuries take away years of healthy life. A Ugandan male born in 2016 will live approximately 52.5 years in good health; a female only 56.3 years.
The top five causes of premature death in Uganda are HIV, malaria, lower respiratory infection, neonatal encephalopathy, and tuberculosis. The ailments that cause illness can be very different. Iron-deficiency anemia, depression, and back pain are the top causes of years that people live with disability in Uganda.
Deaths of children under 5 are a persistent health challenge. For every 1,000 live births, 62.4 Ugandan children under the age of 5 die. That far exceeds both the global figure of 38.4 and the eastern sub-Saharan Africa average of 59.6. Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania all have lower rates of under-5 death.
Moreover, in 2016, for the first time in modern history, fewer than 5 million children under age 5 died in one year, as compared to 1990 when 11 million died.
Researchers attribute this global health landmark to improvements in increased educational levels of mothers, rising per capita incomes, declining levels of fertility, increased vaccination programs, mass distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets, improved water and sanitation, and a wide array of other health programs funded by development funding for health.
“Death is a powerful motivator, both for individuals and for countries, to address diseases that have been killing us at high rates,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. “But, we’ve been much less motivated to address issues leading to illnesses. A ‘triad of troubles’ – obesity, conflict, and mental illness, including substance use disorders – poses a stubborn and persistent barrier to active and vigorous lifestyles.”
Despite progress on reducing deaths, this “triad of troubles” – obesity, conflict, and mental illness, including substance use disorders – is preventing further progress.
One of the most alarming risks in the GBD is excess body weight. The rate of illness related to people being too heavy is rising quickly, and the disease burden can be found in all sociodemographic levels. High body mass index (BMI) is the fourth largest contributor to the loss of healthy life, after high blood pressure, smoking, and high blood sugar.
Deaths over the past decade due to conflict and terrorism more than doubled. Recent conflicts, such as those in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, and Libya, are major public health threats, both in regard to casualties and because they lead to long-term physical and mental consequences.
Mental illness and substance use disorders continued to contribute substantially to the loss of healthy life in 2016, affecting all countries regardless of their socioeconomic status. Treatment rates for mental and substance use disorders remain low. Even in high-income countries where treatment coverage has increased, the prevalence of the most common disorders has not changed.
The GBD is the largest and most comprehensive epidemiological effort to quantify health loss across places and over time. It draws on the work of over 2,500 collaborators from more than 130 countries and territories. IHME coordinates the study. This year, more than 13 billion data points are included; the papers comprise a complete edition of The Lancet.
This year’s GBD improves upon the previous annual update through new data, improvements in methodology, and a measure for tracking completeness of vital registration information.
The study’s other findings include:
Poor diet is associated with 1 in 5 deaths globally.
Non-communicable diseases were responsible for 72% of all deaths worldwide in 2016, in contrast to 58% in 1990. Within the past decade, diabetes rose in rank order from 17th to 9th leading cause of death in low-middle income countries.
Tobacco is linked to 7.1 million deaths, and in more than 100 countries, smoking was among the leading risk factors for loss of healthy life.
The leading causes of premature death globally included: ischemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections, diarrhea-related diseases, and road injuries. Ischemic heart disease was the leading cause of premature death for men in 113 countries and for women in 97 countries.
Only four of the leading 20 causes of disability in 2016 – stroke, COPD, diabetes, and falls –were also leading causes of death.
In addition, the top conditions in 2016 that made people sick, but were not necessarily fatal were: low back pain, migraine headaches, hearing loss, iron-deficiency anemia, and major depressive disorders.
HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 on 5th September 2017 opened at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. More than 20,000 ICT industry leaders and experts gathered from over 150 countries and regions to jointly explore the direction of advancements in digital technology, share new opportunities, drive industry digitization, and embark on a path to new growth.
The theme of this year’s event is ‘Grow with the Cloud’, focusing on the practical implementation of Huawei’s cloud strategy, first unveiled at last year’s event. Topics under this theme include business, technology, and ecosystem strategies in the cloud era.
Huawei Cloud – A look at Huawei’s uniquely structured ‘Cloud DNA’
“The cloud is a cornerstone of the intelligent world,” he said. “Society is experiencing a tangible Matthew effect in digital technology development. Because of this, as well as economies of scale in investment, clouds around the world will begin to converge – becoming more and more centralized. In the future, we predict there will be five major clouds in the world. Huawei will work with our partners to build one of those five clouds, and we’ve got the technology and know-how to do it.”
Guo Ping, Huawei’s Rotating CEO
In his speech, Guo Ping assured customers and partners that Huawei has made strategic investments in the public cloud domain, and will provide long-term public cloud services. The company will build a global cloud network based on its own public clouds, as well as clouds that it has built together with partners. Guo likened Huawei’s strategy to the three major airline alliances – SkyTeam, Star Alliance, and Oneworld – which take passengers wherever they need to go in the world. Huawei Cloud, he said, will open up the world to its users.
He went on to explain Huawei’s business model for the cloud, emphasizing that Huawei will monetize technology and services, not data. He said, “Huawei’s Cloud DNA is made of a unique combination of technology, security, services, and shared success.”
Huawei’s ‘Cloud DNA’ explained:
First, Huawei is a tech company. Building on 30 years of R&D experience, Huawei has decided to invest heavily in cloud platforms, while developing new capabilities in fields like big data and artificial intelligence to meet customer demand for service upgrades and innovation.
The second element of Huawei’s Cloud DNA is security. Huawei provides end-to-end security solutions – from chipsets to services – that effectively address the challenges of cloud security. Huawei’s full-stack capabilities ensure a level of security that far succeeds that of any independent IT system.
The third element is service. Unlike companies that were born in the cloud, Huawei grew with the cloud. The company’s own IT architecture is extremely complex, so it understands the needs and challenges of large global companies, and is well positioned to help governments and large enterprises go digital.
Shared success is the final element of Huawei’s Cloud DNA. At last year’s event, Huawei laid out its vision to help cultivate a thriving and diverse ecosystem. At the time, Guo proclaimed that Huawei has its sights set on only 1% of that ecosystem. For the remaining 99%, Huawei will work with its partners to bring their products to 172 countries and regions, achieving business success together.
Guo wrapped up his keynote with details on Huawei’s hybrid cloud solutions that specifically target the needs of governments and enterprises, including a diverse array of success stories from around the world. Architecturally speaking, Huawei Cloud builds on the company’s decades of experience in devices, networks, clouds, and other digital domains, and is better equipped to achieve synergy between devices and the cloud. Moving forward, Huawei will continue leveraging the strengths of its global platform to build an open ecosystem that thrives on shared success.
Building a cloud network with global coverage
Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei’s Cloud BU, also presented on the first day of the event, sharing his team’s progress on Huawei Cloud. He shared case studies from 12 automobile companies (including Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz), Philips, the Commercial and Industrial Bank of China (ICBC), and several government service platforms that have chosen to use Huawei Cloud and the cloud services from Huawei’s partners.
Zheng Yelai said, “Our people have an in-depth understanding of our customers’ business scenarios, whether they’re working in R&D, marketing, or sales. We keep a close eye on the needs of our customers, and innovate accordingly. We’ve developed Huawei Cloud to help enterprises go digital more smoothly, and help ensure the success of more companies who are willing to innovate.”
Today, Huawei also announced the launch of its new Enterprise Intelligence cloud services, which the company will provide with a platform of general and scenario-specific solutions. This combination of Huawei Cloud and EI makes Huawei Cloud more intelligent, and will help create greater industry value with new advancements in technology.
Huawei’s public clouds and private clouds have a unified architecture, support smooth evolution, and deliver a consistent experience. Companies can efficiently and freely deploy their services on public or private cloud platforms, which readily support service migration and expansion. To prevent vendor lock-in, Huawei offers hybrid cloud solutions that enable integration with third-party public cloud platforms, including those from Amazon and Microsoft.
Huawei has worked with its partners to build a cloud network that has global coverage, providing complete solutions that help Chinese companies go global, and that also help companies outside China enter the Chinese market.
Huawei Cloud is the result of innovations in hardware, software, data, connections, and architecture. At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei will launch flagship solutions in each of these domains to further enable the digital agenda of customers across nine different sectors, including government and public utilities, finance, telecom, energy, transformation, and manufacturing.
Platform + Ecosystem: Focusing on practical application
HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 is all about platforms and ecosystems, focusing on practical application and hands-on experience. This year’s event brings together members of the vast global ICT ecosystem in an interactive exhibition hall over 20,000 square meters in area, 30% larger than last year. Over 60 sponsors, 10 industry organizations, and 130 joint solution partners are participating in the exhibition, and around 1,000 partners have joined Huawei at the event. Major partners in attendance include SAP, Accenture, Chinasoft International, HGST, Intel, Microsoft, Centerm, and Infosys. They will jointly showcase their latest progress and best practices in ICT technology, and participate in a broad range of activities during the event, including keynotes, booth exhibitions, sponsor events, and technical sessions.
Over 10 industry alliances, including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Beijing Disaster Backup and Recovery Technology and Industry Alliance, Edge Computing Consortium (ECC), GSMA, Industrial Internet Consortium, OpenSDS, and OpenStack, are also in attendance.
To expose its ICT capabilities to developer partners, Huawei will also launch its new software development cloud, DevCloud 2.0. As an R&D cloud platform that integrates Huawei’s 30 years of experience in R&D, cutting-edge R&D concepts, and advanced R&D tools, DevCloud 2.0 will expose over 3,000 of Huawei’s ICT capabilities through public APIs, and open the doors to 20 local OpenLabs around the world to developers. The end goal is to make software development simple and more efficient, helping developer partners innovate and successfully monetize new services.
HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei’s flagship event for the global ICT industry, was held at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre from September 5-7. The theme is Grow with the Cloud. Huawei will be exploring how to realize new growth through digital transformation together with its customers and partners at this global platform for open collaboration. For more information, please visit www.huawei.com/huaweiconnect2017
Oribags Innovations Limited did it again at the Private Sector Development Awards 2017 on Thursday at Royal Suites-Bugolobi. Oribags won Panel of Judges Recognition for Creativity and continuous innovation at the ceremony.
Oribags Innovations Ltd is an enterprise in Uganda that recovers organic waste and natural fibres into ecobags and a variety of innovative paper products.
They have handy gifting solutions, fabulous bags, Boxes and many more.
Their products are available at the following locations
ORIBAGS outlet & Shop Equatoria Mall
Mega Standard Super Market-Aponye Mall
Mega Standard Garden City
Capital Shoppers Super Market Nakawa
Capital Shoppers Super Market Garden City
Capital Shoppers Super Market Ntinda
Best Buy Super Market Mengo
Best Buy Super Market Bukoto
Master Super Market Ntinda
G&R Super Market Ntinda
Delo Super Market Ntinda
Kenjoy Super Market Najja
Kenjoy Super Market Nansana
Stabex Super Market Buloba
Upper Super Market Bukoto
The Outlet Super Market Freedom City
Edita Super Market Nyanama
Gods Plan Super Market Makindye
Nyanzi Art Studio-National Theatre
Meet the young Girl who has been frustrating the Kenyan presenters’ marriages
A chilling confession of a 20 year old sexy babe who has slept with husbands of Kenyan TV Female presenters while watching them live on screens has left Kenya in shock.
The girl, whose name we cannot reveal, comes from a very wealthy family. She lives in Nairobi City where she runs her own businesses including; sale of beauty products which gives her close to 1000 USD per day after tax.
“I started sleeping around with the husbands to media ladies who would ignore me on social media. Basically the best time would be at 6-10pm when I know the wives weren’t around and for the safety of the guys; I would wait for them in my house.
I used to film all our intimate moments and I have stored them well in my safe which no one can access.
So far I have slept with 8 husbands who are married to media personalities and what I like most is having our good time as we watch their wives live on air on prime time reading the news.
Since we were good at timing and I knew when the wives would come back, we would make love and make sure that I do this each time I would be suggest that the “wife” was going to be on live shows.
From this, I have made over 200,000 USD as their husbands would pay for my silence. This has gone on for the past two months. I feel this is not a bad sum of cash because we always have it on mutual agreement, and besides the men die to have me though am always very specific on the kind of men I date.
I would like to apologize to the hearts of the married women whose hearts I have broken, though what I can say is that its life and there is nothing I can do about it.
Ladies please forgive me for messing up. I am young and naive and also I love making quick money given to me kindly by your men. I confess”.
The deadly Masaka- Kampala Highway has continued to claim road users, we can report. Latest info reaching us has it that 13 people have so far been confirmed dead after last night’s deadly accident at Katonga Ggolo junction and the number could increase.
The accident involved a Fuso Lorry registration No. UAH 970P commonly known as ‘magulukkumi’ heading to Kampala and a Coaster registration No. T540 DLC carrying Tanzanian nationals.
The passengers in the coaster were coming from a wedding party heading back to Tanzania. 13 people died on spot, 7 males and 6 females. 4 men and 04 females were seriously injured & rushed to Nkozi hospital but later were transferred to Mulago. The accident occurred at 20:20hrs on 17/9/2017.
The driver of the Fuso truck is among the injured and admitted at Nkozi hospital. The cause of the accident was attributed to Tyre bust of the Fuso which later lost control and rammed into the coaster.
Floyd Mayweather spoke to Diego from Awkward Puppets about his lifestyle
The 40-year-old revealed he has seven girlfriends and 25 cars in Las Vegas alone
Mayweather defeated Conor McGregor for his 50th career victory last month
The retired boxing icon insisted the encounter was the final one of his career
Floyd Mayweather has given fans an amusing insight into his life, from how many women he dates to how much money is in his bank, during an interview with a puppet.
In a chat with Diego from the YouTube channel Awkward Puppets, Mayweather revealed he has seven girlfriends and 25 cars in Las Vegas alone, including a red Bugatti and a yellow Ferrari.
Mayweather also insisted that his money-spinning showdown with Conor McGregor in August was definitely the last time he will enter the boxing ring.
‘The last fight that I fought, that was the money fight,’ Mayweather said. ‘For real, because the next fight, they’re going to try and get me to fight an alien on another planet.’
Mayweather was speaking to Diego in front of his strip club in Las Vegas, called Girl Collection.
He was asked if he has a girlfriend and replied by revealing that he is not a man who is loyal to only one woman.
‘How many women I have? Probably about seven deep,’ Mayweather said. ‘Lucky seven.
‘We go out to eat, some of us travel together. Having one is too close to having none.’
Diego also pressed the money man on his wealth. Mayweather told him he has several bank accounts before being grilled on how much is held in just one of them.
‘$200million,$300million, yeah. In different accounts,’ he said.
Mayweather pocketed an estimated $100million just from taking on McGregor in August. He defeated the Irishman with a 10th-round stoppage to record his 50th career victory.
The much anticipated Bell Jamz concert went down on Friday night at the Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala.
The show which featured West African singers Mr Eazi and Tekno started as early as 6:00PM with performances from Uganda’s popular artistes like Fille Mutoni, Cindy Sanyu, Feffe Bussi, Chozen Blood, Ykee Benda, Sheebah among others and deejays Roja and Slickstuart.
Mr Eazi stepped on stage a few minutes past 9:00PM and put up an energetic performance of his hit songs like; “Dance for Me”, ” Skin Tight” and the fan’s favorite “Leg Over” which everyone sang along to, among others.
He was followed by Ugandan music giant Bebe Cool who took the stage with his amazing dancers to perform his club bangers ““Kabulengane” “Katono”, “Ki Ekiganye”, “Love You Everyday”, “Mbozi Za Malwa” and among others.
Tekno took to the stage at around 11:00PM amidst cheers from the crowd. He wowed fans as he sang his songs like, “Wash”, “Rara”, “Pana”, “Duro”, “Be”, and “Samantha” among others.
In a bid to improve water supply services in Masindi Town and the surrounding areas, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)using her internally generated resources has commissioned a Shs 2.2 billion Project with an aim of improving water production at Kiyanja water works Masindi.
The Water Production Improvement Project, which was designed in-house and directly supervised by NWSC Engineers, entailed expanding the production capacity of the intake and water treatment plant at Kiyanja. The new facility addresses the water shortages, rationing, and dry zones, which had become rampant in Masindi Town.
The newly constructed treatment/production line is comprised of new intake pipeline, coagulator and flocculator, clarifier, filter, electromechanical installations (new raw water & high lift pump), and associated pipe work interconnections and civil works.
Upon completion, the water production capacity of Kiyanja water works has increased from 1,800,000 litres/day to over 4,300,000 litres of water/day and meets the area demand for the next 15 years.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the Masindi area manager Ms Racheal Anne Alokit assured residents and stakeholders that the Corporation has embarked on massive water mains extensions under the Service Coverage Acceleration Programme that was launched a few weeks back.
The NWSC Water Supply Infrastructure Manager Eng Denis Taremwa shared that only 50-60% of the water is being consumed from the newly completed systems. “We now have a task of extending the 40% and serve more people in Masindi.” He further urged the residents to stop encroaching on the water source.
According to the NWSC Senior Manager Operations West and South Western region Eng Mahmood Lutaaya, the Corporation is doing similar projects in various areas of operation. He went on to mention that NWSC will extend 100kms of water mains and install 100 public stand pipes in the next one year. In total the Corporation will extend a total of 300kms of water mains and install 300 public water points to serve over 212 villages in the next 3 years. “We want to install more public water points and reduce on the influence of middle men selling water at 500shs or more per jerrycan. NWSC sells a jerrycan of water at public stand posts at only 25shs.” he added
The Chief Guest, Masindi RDC Mr. Nyakahuma Godfrey commended the Corporation for the commitment towards service delivery and water for all Ugandans. “We had a problem of water in this Masindi town and the MD NWSC Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha promised that the Corporation would address it. Indeed the promise has been fulfilled. NWSC is at the forefront of pushing government programmes,” he said.
He added that the new system will greatly contribute to the economic and social development of Masindi town that is booming with massive development upon discovery of oil.
Also in attendance were: The district Vice Chairperson, Masindi Town Mayor, CAO, Contractor (Updeal Limited), customers and other district stakeholders.
