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16/04/2018

Tekwaro LANGO - LCI

Tekwaro LANGO - LCI

Olego Mara Kuc Note kede Paro pi Anyim Otino Lango.
Mak tic atek, ogwok koti me diki kun olego obanga ikare ducu
tye atera kede tela anyen kede remo alyet ENG.DR.MM.ODONGO OKUNE

24/12/2015

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24/12/2015

We freelance journalists here by confirm beyond reasonable doubt that Hon Minister Rebbeca Amuge Otengo will be thrown out of Parliament and replaced with Samuel Okwir Odwee clear analysis

04/01/2015

Lango paparazi whats app guest what Omodo Omodo a gain in state house

08/02/2014

Any news in Lira

07/09/2013

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02/09/2013

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26/06/2013

Nelson Mandela is my hero with a special place in my heart! He spent his young life fighting for the freedom of South African blacks. He was imprisoned for 27 years. After his release, he forgave and asked for reconciliation between the races.

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." - Nelson Mandela

BTW, did you know Dick Cheney voted against a 1986 resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and recognition of the African National Congress?

Amazing, isn’t it? Our world has become a better place because of the former and a worse place because
of the latter!

17/06/2013

Lira district woman member of parliament Joy Atim Ongom, jail her company manager over a ledge threatening her, and attempting to set her home a blaze.
Tonny Opio a residence of Adola parish in Amach Sub County according to the lira woman honorable member has been threatening her to kill her over allegation that she did not pay his motorcycle that spoil sometimes back during campaign time.
Opio has been remanded at lira central prison and he will appear before grade 1 magistrate for bail appilication

11/06/2013

if there is any person who have been forgotten, and who have been a president for some time in this Republic of Uganda is not Muzze Wacha Olwol so give more update about this hero and could you people identify on this page where this Muzze is

11/06/2013

TEKWARO lango by now should have been far away the way we might thing, public opinion leaders are saying the leaders brought politics in tekwaro lango,
Now the court ruling on injunction put every body in a confuse moment suppose you are ask to give idea on this what would be your imperial idea for Tekwaro Lango Leader, remember don't bring your own wrong projection on this and personal conflict and your idea will reach the person concern

11/06/2013

Many people especially in the village are saying NAADS are for a few and the money are mostly spent on operational in steed of going to the direct beneficiaries.
They said the procurement process, farmers identification takes a lot of money and encourage bribe to the community and the government staff what is your say on this.......

11/06/2013

Lira district will soon be a very big town in Uganda because of the stadium that will be build in the memory of Olympic medalist John Akii Bua

11/06/2013

21 of the world's greatest dads
Fatherhood. These guys are doing it right.

11/06/2013

Tuesday's horseracing tips
Check out our tips from today’s horse races across Ireland and the UK.

11/06/2013

Tributes pour in for horse racing legend Henry Cecil
The 10-time champion trainer has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 70.

11/06/2013

Luis Suarez has again spoken of his desire to leave the Barclays Premier League, where he believes he has been mistreated by the press and public.

11/06/2013

A Garda sergeant has been fined but spared a jail term after an appeal court upheld his conviction for sexually assaulting a female colleague while on duty at a Dublin station three years ago.

11/06/2013

Do really Remember what Amin said some time back

11/06/2013

what is nice to you is nice to other as well

11/06/2013

we offer you some entertainment on this page as you know

11/06/2013

Land, Land, Land, Land, we have got many Land in Lira district and outside and above all within town , Mediate property consult Uganda Limited is offering for you land strategic and for future investment you want land for residential or commercial and already build commercial land is there for you, just contact us on this page or call 0773176041/0750887128 we shall help to connect you

11/06/2013

More Pic for Nelson Mandela

11/06/2013

More Pic for Nelson Mandela

11/06/2013

CAPE TOWN - Nelson Mandela's lengthy absence from the spotlight has forced his adoring country to envisage what their hard-won and often fraught multi-racial democracy means without the man who forged it.

The beloved and frail 94-year-old, who is back in hospital with a lung infection, still embodies for most South Africans the "Rainbow Nation" he strived for despite endless persecution at the hands of white apartheid rulers.

However having stepped out of the public eye nearly a decade ago, during which South Africa has battled turbulent political crises and scandals, analysts say Mandela's influence has waned.

"The bottom line is that Mr Mandela has not been at the moral and political centre of South Africa for a very long time," political commentator Eusebius McKaiser said of the former president last seen in public in 2010.

"We have let go of him ages ago."

Despite his absence, South Africa's first black president, remains a powerful symbol of racial unity nearly 20 years after he pledged a new era for his bitterly divided nation.

Testimony to this is the emotional bond that South Africans feel to him. With familial affection, he is often simply known as "tata" (father) or "tatamkhulu" (grandfather) by young and old, black and white.

But analysts agree that his influence on daily life has long faded.

"I think there will be concerns from outside South Africa that Mandela is seen as the glue that holds South Africa together," analyst Daniel Silke told AFP.

"But I think that this is something long gone frankly."

With Mandela having made his last political speech in 2009, South Africa's political arena has shifted radically since he ushered in the heady leap into multi-race democracy.

"The point needs to be made that society and politics have changed in South Africa since the Mandela era," said Silke.

"I just don't think that Nelson Mandela's passing is going to have any dramatic effect on domestic politics in South Africa," he added.

Increasing acceptance of his mortality, with increasing hospital stays, has also seen the once-taboo topic of death broached as South Africa contemplates itself as a post-Mandela society.

His hospitalisation has triggered an outpouring of wishes for his recovery.

But this is often motivated by a genuine love for the man and his role in shaping the country, rather than melodramatic fears for South Africa, said McKaiser.

He said it was not Mandela's mere presence which saved South Africa from becoming the next Zimbabwe -- the country's restive neighbour where white farmers saw their land seized -- or from other instability.

"We, independent of his physical existence, are responsible for why the country has not been collapsing and so his non-existence cannot be a game changer."

Viewed as his greatest gift to South Africa, Mandela paved the way for peaceful reconciliation, which he selflessly strived for despite being incarcerated by the apartheid government for 27 years, and which saw the fragile nation sidestep civil war.

"I think we live in a generation where we're incredibly grateful for what he did, especially my parents are also," said school pupil Thingo Mthombeni, 18, in Soweto.

"Because then they get to see their children go to good schools and integrate with other people and other races, which is pretty awesome."

A pull-back on reconciliation as many feared was unlikely, said Silke.

"The issue of reconciliation I think permeates South African politics way beyond the era of Nelson Mandela," he said.

During Mandela's longest hospital stay as a free man in December, an article "Nelson Mandela is going to die - it's sad, but it's ok" was penned.

In it, GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen argued that South Africa held together not because of the Mandela of today but because of his work over his lifetime.

"It is insulting to Mandela to suggest that his lifetime's work will unravel at the end of his lifetime," he wrote.

11/06/2013

The nine Somali men, who have been charged with piracy related activities, stand at the dock during their sentencing at a Kenyan law court in the coastal town of Mombasa June 10, 2013. PHOTO/Reuters
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MOMBASA, Kenya - A Kenyan court sentenced nine Somali citizens each to five years in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of violently hijacking a vessel, MV Magellan Star, in the Gulf of Aden in September 2010.

The nine were captured by international anti-piracy forces before being handed over to Kenya to be prosecuted, because Somalia was not considered able to try them properly.

Although the number of attacks has fallen markedly since 2011 thanks to tougher security aboard ships and increased Western naval patrols, piracy emanating from the Horn of Africa nation may still cost the world economy about $18 billion a year, the World Bank said in April.

Prosecutors told the court the men attacked the ship armed with three AK-47 rifles, a G3 rifle, one SAR rifle and other crude weapons.

"They hijacked the vessel, using violence against its crew by firing at them, and took control of the ... vessel, thus endangering the lives of the crew," they said in the charge sheet.

All nine had denied the accusations, and were held in custody at one of Kenya's maximum security prisons during the trial.

While handing out the sentence, the court noted that the accused had already served a long term in jail while the trial was in progress, and therefore were given shorter prison terms.

"Such charges would ordinarily attract a jail term of up to 20 years," magistrate Richard Odenyo said in his ruling, which was translated for the suspects who did not understand English.

A lawyer representing the accused termed the ruling "fairly reasonable", saying his clients had not yet decided whether to lodge an appeal.

Reuters

11/06/2013

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11/06/2013

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11/06/2013

Uganda government in conjungtion with Riftvally railway campany will start operating train transpot system Regional rail operator Rift Valley Railways is set to increase freight volumes, with the arrival of Million worth of rail to be used in the repair worn out curves on the sections of the permanent way between Central and Northern Uganda

11/06/2013

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10/06/2013

An ex-CIA employee has said he acted to "protect basic liberties for people around the world" in leaking details of US phone and internet surveillance.

Edward Snowden, 29, was revealed as the source of the leaks at his own request by the UK's Guardian newspaper.

Mr Snowden, who says he has fled to Hong Kong, said he had an "obligation to help free people from oppression".

The recent revelations are that US agencies gathered millions of phone records and monitored internet data.

A spokesman for the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the case had been referred to the Department of Justice as a criminal matter.
'You will never be safe'

The Guardian quotes Mr Snowden as saying he flew to stay in a hotel in Hong Kong on 20 May, though his exact whereabouts now are unclear.
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He is described by the paper as an ex-CIA technical assistant, currently employed by Booz Allen Hamilton, a defence contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA).

Mr Snowden told the Guardian: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting.

"If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."

He told the paper that the extent of US surveillance was "horrifying", adding: "We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place."
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US media response

A USA Today editorial accepts that "the primary result of Snowden's actions is a plus. He has forced a public debate on the sweepingly invasive programs that should have taken place before they were created". But, it goes on, "pure motives and laudable effects don't alter the fact that he broke the law".

An editorial in the Chicago Tribune argues that "some new restrictions" in the US intelligence gathering programme may be in order, adding: "If the government is looking for, say, calls between the United States and terrorists in Pakistan or Yemen, why can't it simply demand records of calls to certain foreign countries. Is there no way to narrow the search to leave most Americans out of it?"

Robert O'Harrow in the Washington Post writes that the growing reliance on contractors in US intelligence gathering "reflects a massive shift toward outsourcing over the past 15 years, in part because of cutbacks in the government agencies". He argues that this "has dramatically increased the risk of waste and contracting abuses... but given the threat of terrorism and the national security mandates from Congress, the intelligence community had little choice".

Mr Snowden said he did not believe he had committed a crime: "We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me."

Asked what he thought would happen to him, he replied: "Nothing good."

Mr Snowden said he accepted he could end up in jail. "If they want to get you, over time they will," he said.

He said he also feared the US authorities would "act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night".

Mr Snowden said he had gone to Hong Kong because of its "strong tradition of free speech".

Hong Kong signed an extradition treaty with the US shortly before the territory returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

However, Beijing can block any extradition if it believes it affects national defence or foreign policy issues.

A standard visa on arrival in Hong Kong for a US citizen lasts for 90 days and Mr Snowden expressed an interest in seeking asylum in Iceland.

However, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post quoted Iceland's ambassador to China as saying that "according to Icelandic law a person can only submit such an application once he/she is in Iceland".

On Monday, one of the Guardian journalists who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, told reporters in Hong Kong that Mr Snowden was content with his actions.