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The world commemorates a day for older persons 1 st of October. This year, it is the 25th anniversary of International Day of Older Persons (IDOP). Older persons face great challenges but older persons in Africa and other developing countries face even greater challenges.  According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, there are about 1.3 million persons above the age of 60 years in Uganda. Most of these older persons live in isolation, they lack social protection, suffer the high burden of non-communicable diseases and face poverty. The scourge of HIV/AIDS which ravaged the sub-Saharan African countries is one of the major causes of challenges which face the elderly.  The scourge led to high numbers of orphans left in the care of older persons. The other major cause of tribulations among older persons is war and instability that spread across many parts of the Uganda in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for the parts of Northern and South Western Uganda near the DRC bo...

It was a great weekend spent in home! every evening whenever I am home, I like joining the discussions with the 'old lads' and youth at the shops near home, call them small separate bars. the 'old lads' (guys of my grand fathers and fathers age) will forever ask me to contribute a fee to their days liquor! I don't know if its right or wrong to offer small notes to them for this. they forever expect me to buy for them some whenever I am around, they somehow make it my responsi bility by way of convincing me so more often than not, I will spend just UGX 5,000= on the evening that I have to join them and one can read the appreciation on the faces. I do not taste liquor my self and I always feel that its wrong to buy alcohol but I somehow commit the offence of my conscience and go away with it. Whet do you do to such lads? That a side, the discussion at the bars this weekend was mostly around politics, women and money. Politics: ngu Amama and Museveni nibamanyana....

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Christians of the Anglican Community in Sheema District resolved to secede from Weste Ankole Diocese. Christians met at Saturday 30 th  May at St. Emmanuel Church in kabwohe and appealed to the Province of the Church of Uganda to split the current Diocese of West Ankole to form another Diocese of ‘Central Ankole’. The meeting was well by many including Cabinet Ministers of Government hailing from Sheema District, Members of Parliament, prominent former leaders and members of the District leadership.  Bishop Y. Katonene the reigning Bishop of West Ankole Diocese had a media briefing in Mbarara the following day where he described the decision by the section of Christians as ‘null and void’.  Accordingly, the Bishop went on to state that the resolution by the Christians “was  dangerous and poisonous to the flock.” Expressions of disgruntlement between a section of Christians in Sheema and the reigning Bishop are not a new thing. The wrangles have taken ov...

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