Osuta Yusuf

This is to inform the general public that vacancies exist in S.1, S.2, S.3, S.4, S.5 and S.6. at Arua Academy for the academic year 2020. FEES STRUCTURE 1. Admission forms can be obtained from the school at Awindiri at a fee of 10,000=. 2. S.1, S.2, S.3, S.5 S.6 day with breakfast and lunch is 220,000=. 3. S.1, S.2, S.3, S.5 and S.6 boarding is 330,000=. 4. S.4 day is 250,000=. 5. S.4 Boarding is 350,000=. 6. Uniform comprising skirt/trouser, a regular white shirt, t-shirt, tie and sweater is 80,000=. 7. SESEMAT is 3,000= annually. 8. Arua district Headteachers Association games and sports fee is 10,000=. 9. Termly internal examination fee is 20,000=. 10. A ream of printing paper. The school is registered with Ministry of Education and sports with reg. no. PSS/A/24 and UNEB centre no. U0845 for S.4 and S.6. Candidates sit UNEB exams at the school. The school is both day and boarding. Its mixed (for both boys and girls). Its ho

A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and organizations in Israel and around the world over the past three years. Dubbed "Fox Kitten," the cyber-espionage campaign is said to have been directed at companies from the IT, telecommunication, oil and gas, aviation, government, and security sectors. "We estimate the campaign revealed in this report to be among Iran's most continuous and comprehensive campaigns revealed until now," ClearSky researchers said. "The revealed campaign was used as a reconnaissance infrastructure; however, it can also be used as a platform for spreading and activating destructive malware such as ZeroCleare and Dustman." Tying the activities to threat groups APT33, APT34, and APT39, the offensive — conducted using a mix of open source and self-developed tools — also facilitated the groups to steal

Paul Kagame. Rwandan government denied that the detention of street children in transit centers is arbitrary (PHOTO/File). The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has asked authorities in Rwanda to take “urgent measures” to end the abuse of street children should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. In observations released on February 13, 2020, the Geneva-based treaty body called for a halt to the arbitrary detention of children in transit centers, for investigations into allegations of ill-treatment – including beatings –, and for amendments of the legal framework that regularizes this abuse. On January 27, Human Rights Watch released a 44-page report, “‘As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us’: Rwanda’s Abusive Detention of Children,” documenting the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of street children, who are held for up to six months at Gikondo Transit Center, in Kigali, the capital. Since 2017, new legislation and policies u

A view over Beirut from the Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood, an area used by women forced into prostitution and the pimps and traffickers who control them [Daniela Sala/Al Jazeera] Beirut, Lebanon -  "How do I know most of the women working as prostitutes are controlled?" asked Paul, a volunteer for the Jesuits, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, before answering his own question. "[Because] the last time I tried to help one of them get in touch with an NGO, I got beaten and threatened by her captors." Everyone in Lebanon's "sex trade" seems to be involved in trafficking in one way or another: Sources at both the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the General Directorate of General Security (GS) in Beirut told Al Jazeera that even pimps working further down the chain of command ultimately report to a bigger network of organised traffickers. Paul has learned the ins-and-outs of Lebanon's trafficking world over the years. Beirut, the Lebanes

                        Softpower News.        Busiro South Member of Parliament, Peter Sematimba alias Pirra Sematimba says he only comes to Uganda to do business and earn money after which he flies back to his home village Los Angeles in the U.S. In an interview with one of the local televisions, Sematimba said he is only in Uganda for Kyeyo (working) and when holidays come, just like other Ugandans who take a bus to go to their upcountry villages, he travels to the U.S. It all started when the controversial legislator was asked how he spent his festive season and responded that he went to China and Los Angeles California in United States, which surprised the interviewer who then asked to know whether the MP and media entrepreneur chooses to fly abroad as the rest of the Ugandans go to villages. “When you talk about a village, In Uganda I am on Kyeeyo, it is here that I make my money just like the rest of the people in Kampala. When holidays come they board buses back to

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US firms, in a significant escalation of a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom giant that began last year 2019. Accusing Huawei and its affiliates of "using fraud and deception to misappropriate sophisticated technology from US counterparts," the new charges allege the company of offering bonuses to employees who obtained "confidential information" from its competitors. The indictment adds to a list of two other charges filed by the US government last year, including violating US sanctions on Iran and stealing technology from T-Mobile — called Tappy — that's used to test smartphone durability. The development is the latest salvo fired by the Trump administration in its year-long fight against the networking equipment maker, which it deems a threat to national security. "The misappropriat

Why former Sudan president Omar al-Bashir must not escape justice this Time. Omar al-Bashir may have been deposed as President of Sudan after three decades of deeply repressive rule, but he has still not faced justice for the litany of grave human rights violations and crimes under international law he allegedly committed while in power. ICC Arrest Warrant. Al-Bashir is one of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) longest-running fugitives. The Court has issued two arrest warrants for the former Sudanese leader - the first on 4 March 2009 and the second on 12 July 2010. He stands accused of criminal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide following the killing, maiming, and torture of hundreds of thousands of people in the Sudanese region of Darfur. The Darfur Conflict. Darfur has been the setting of a bloody conflict that has persisted since 2003 and continues to this day. An exact figure for the civilian death toll as a result of the conflic

Greetings to You My Fellow Ugandans, My Fellow Africans And the World at Large. This time 16-February-2020, i am again writing about Poor use of English on Internet, especially by Our Youth generation. We are living in 21st Century, which is a global village. Gullible Africans, especially Ugandans have alarmingly under low rate of Working abroad and with foreign employers because of their language syndrome. They write UNGLISH all over social media platforms and they even feel so proud of it. What do some of you earn from speaking and writing Poor ENGLISH?. Remember, examples of UNGLISH are; t-shup, haw a u, nic 2 c u, swiri welcam and many other words. Majority of applications for jobs, education and other things are now done via the Internet. Mostly, foreign and global employers hire people via the Internet. Without you knowing, They take some good times to follow and read everything you write on the Internet, even including your Internet profile. I have been t

This Morning of 15-February-2020, Hon Ayaka Rose has been appreciating and supporting ALIO ATIZU SACCO  group in Amanipi, Yivu in Maracha District - Uganda. This SACCO group which has Shillings 2.8million Savings, has been running activities of Horticulture, Adult Litetacy, Animal Keeping And Music Dance and Drama. The Honourable MP who has the Heart of Humanity, has also thrown Herself from the Clutches of making Laws in Parliament, to Helping some of Our Needy Impoverished Communities who already have vital working projects. This WOMEN SACCO group is not the only group she is encouraging and supporting, she has been doing it to many other groups in Kijomoro Sub-County, Oluffe Sub-County, Oluvu Sub-County, Tara Sub-County, Oleba Sub-County and in many other parts of Maracha District. Great Work Done. ALUTA CONTINUA, HONOURABLE AYAKA.

“Two extremely elusive things are happiness and love, finding them both has to be the most unlikely occurrence on earth but whenever you do find them, never let go.” May the blessings of God fill your life with Love and happiness. #valentinesday2020

Greetings to you all. This is to alert the public that there is a yellow fever virus outbreak in West Nile_specifically in Moyo and also in Bulisa district. There are however suspected cases in Maracha district. I have already alerted the Ministry of Health and samples where taken for analysis .   We are now lobbying for vaccines from the ministry in case the results turn out positive. The public is therefore advised as a preventive measure to sleep under treated mosquito nets and clear bushes around their houses as the transmission is by a mosquito species known as  aedes mosquitoes.

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A few hours after Adobe released security updates for five of its widely-distributed software, Microsoft also issued its February 2020 Patch Tuesday edition with patches for a total of 99 new vulnerabilities. According to the advisories, 12 of the total issues patched by the tech giant this month are critical in severity, and the remaining 87 have been listed as important. Five of the bugs are listed as publicly known at the time of release, four of which are important in severity and one critical (CVE-2020-0674) that is also listed as under active attack. Microsoft warned about this zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) browser last month when it released an advisory without releasing a patch for millions of its affected users. As explained previously, this flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on targeted computers and take full control over them just by convincing victims into opening a maliciously crafted web page on the vulnerable Micr

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ARUA.  Arua municipal council on Wednesday approved the process of degazetting Arua central forest commonly known as Barifa forest to pave way for the Nile eco-city development. This comes after the ministry of water and environment in November 2019 asked the municipal council to restart the processes and submit a report within two months. A similar council meeting to allow degazzettement of the forest was held in 2014 but the process dragged as the council awaited parliament’s approval only for the ministry to put forth new conditions in 2019 for the process to continue. The council has been among other new conditions asked to carry a land valuation for both the forest and an alternative 256-hectare land in Logiri Sub County. Other conditions include carrying out adequate consultations with communities around the forest reserve and the exchange land and carrying out an extensive environmental impact assessment for both the forest and the alternative land. The Barifa Forest, where Nile

Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the country is going to have a legislative election. In Israel, all political parties receive personal details of voters before the election, which they can't share with any third party and are responsible for protecting the privacy of their citizens and erasing it after the elections are over. Reportedly, Likud shared the entire voter registry with Feed-b, a software development company, who then uploaded it a website (elector.co.il) designed to promote the voting management app called 'Elector.' According to Ran Bar-Zik, a web security researcher who disclosed the issue, the voters' data was not leaked using any security vulnerability in the Elector

My Fellow Ugandans, Africans and whole World, Greetings. Today Wednesday 12-February-2020, i am typically writing about a bunch of some People who might have been mostly paid by Proxies (Failure Leaders) to attack, demonise, criticise and harass Vocal Skilled Writers who use Writing (Freelancing) as a method of; Airing out Developmental Agendas of Governments or Organizations or Groups, Raising touching stories that affect the People, Activism and many more Others. Demonising and Harassing Courageous Writers does not signal my shutdown And vocal Death. To the contrary, It proves my voice to remain fully alive, capable of reverberating far and wide, through many platforms and forums. As i Osuta Yusuf, i am an Ardent Writer writing on behalf and on the interests of many Other Ugandan Writers, African Writers and Global Writers who experience similar challenges on daily basis. The worst mistakes some of these Failure Leaders do, is to think that, hiring People to challenge and

Emotet, the notorious trojan behind a number of botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, has found a new attack vector: using already infected devices to identify new victims that are connected to nearby Wi-Fi networks. According to researchers at Binary Defense, the newly discovered Emotet sample leverages a "Wi-Fi spreader" module to scan Wi-Fi networks, and then attempts to infect devices that are connected to them. The cybersecurity firm said the Wi-Fi spreader has a timestamp of April 16, 2018, indicating the spreading behavior has been running "unnoticed" for close to two years until it was detected for the first time last month. The development marks an escalation of Emotet's capabilities, as networks in close physical proximity to the original victim are now susceptible to infection. How Does Emotet's Wi-Fi Spreader Module Work? The updated version of the malware works by leveraging an already compromised host to list all the

Nile Eco City: The Arua Municipal Council has unanimously approved the Nile Eco City Master Plan prepared by Joadah Capital Infrastructure Partners of Dennis Aliga and Aita Joel and Degazatement of Barifa Forest. This Paves way for consultation with Different stakeholders including Oluko Subcounty, Vurra, ministry of water, Lands, Local government which will ultimately head to Parliament for Final Degazatement.

Former presidential aspirant, Gen.Benon Biraaro has passed on. A close relative confirmed his death to us. Biraaro succumbed to cancer at Kampala Hospital. The general has been battling illness for more than a year and he has sought treatment abroad. Background Born on March 1, 1958, Biraaro joined the National Resistance Army bush war in 1982 straight out of Makerere University and by 1984, he had risen to the High Command and National Resistance Council and by 1986, he was the deputy to President Museveni’s Principal Private Secretary. He was then posted to Kitgum as the special district administrator until 1987 before being sent to Kyankwanzi where he served as deputy commandant of the National Leadership Institute. Biraaro served as the commanding officer of the 97 th  battalion in Eastern Uganda which helped end the insurgency in Teso sub-region. He later served as the commander of the military police, appointed the representative of the office of the Inspector General of Governme

The founder and leader of International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has said 70% of the Christian Bible is human opinion not worth following because it is not the word of God. Speaking to his congregation on February 4, 2020, at Tema, Bishop Obinim said the Bible is made up of two things, “human opinion and God’s words” but the human opinion takes 70% while God’s words are few. “Some of you who shiver when you hear Bible says, Bible says, you have to ask which part of the Bible and who is the one saying it. Habbakuk, Paul, 1st John, 2nd John etc were peoples’ mind not God’s word,” he said to applause from his congregation. According to him, he only reads the Bible because his Angel brothers refer him to particular places to read. This latest statement from 'Angel Obinim' comes after he was caught confidently quoting a wrong Bible verse during a deliverance session in one of his television broadcast. In a video sighted last week, the man of God was heard quo

        Kenyan presidential guards wrestle Kagame's guards. Drama ensued at the Nyayo National Stadium after a delegation accompanying Rwanda President Paul Kagame was barred from accessing the VIP section. President Kagame arrived at the venue around 10am in the company of his security officers and other officials. He was received by Deputy President William Ruto. He exchanged pleasantries with the DP Ruto then handed over his phone to one of his guards who placed it away in his jacket pocket. Kagame being received by Ruto Kagame proceeded towards the arena and the guards started following behind. Blocked However, the people behind him were stopped from passing. His bodyguards were involved in a tussle with Kenyan presidential guards at the entrance of the VIP wing as they tried to force their way through. Both security parties started sparring and flexing muscles inside the VIP holding area. In the end, Kenyan Presidential guards managed to restrain Kagame’s guards and order resu