Daily Monitor
Monday February 08 2021
Soldiers under Fisheries Protection Unit after confiscating items reportedly used in illegal fishing in Kalangala District on Febuary 5, 2021. PHOTO/SVYESTER SSEMUGENYI
Summary
Illegal fishing, according to Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries involves using less than five-inch fishing nets for Tilapia and less than seven-inch fishing nets for Nile Perch that results into the harvesting of immature fish that measures less than 11 inch and 20 inch in length, respectively.
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At least 20 fishermen in Kalangala District have been arrested on suspicion of engaging in fish poisoning.
The suspects were arrested on Friday by soldiers from the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) with illegal fishing gear and a strange substance suspected to be poison.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 07 2021
Kabale- Two suspects who confessed to the killing of Special Police Constable (SPC) Garalious Baryabakabu, 58, before stealing his SMG riffle and 30 bullets, have been transferred to the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) 2nd Division headquarters in Mbarara to be tried in the court martial.
Baryabakabu was on January 27 killed while on night guard duty at the Kabale District Electoral Commission offices located at Makanga Hill in Kabale Municipality.
His body was discovered by a colleague, SPC Solomon Twinomujuni at around 7am as he reported for day duty.
The body had been tied with ropes and had deep wounds around the nose and head.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 07 2021
Summary
On Monday, National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, who came second in the January 14 presidential poll, filed in the Supreme Court a petition challenging President Museveni’s victory. Derrick Kiyonga and Joel Mukisa compare Mr Kyagulanyi’s petition with the failed 2016 petition which was filed by former prime minister Amama Mbabazi.
Use of civil servants
In his petition, Mr Mbabazi sought annulment of Mr Museveni’s election on grounds that he had used civil servants such as Jennifer Musisi, then executive director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), and Ms Allen Kagina the executive director of Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) when the President was campaigning in the western district of Kanungu, which he said is against the law.
GULU
Northern Uganda’s peace process looks to be on its last legs. Talks have all but collapsed between Uganda’s government and the troublesome rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), as both sides take to the bush to resume full hostilities. But have they really blown their last chance for peace? It is eight months since the Ugandan government and LRA first decided to talk to each other. For 16 years, all they had ever exchanged was gunfire. Then on 14 July 2002, the rebels held a landmark seven-hour meeting with representatives of the local Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI). They said they wanted to open negotiations with the government – negotiations which could finally end Uganda’s longest, bloodiest civil conflict to date. Present were Vincent Otti, Sam Kolo and Caesar Acellam, three of the LRA’s most senior members. “We had another meeting on the 21st [July],” explains Father Carlos Rodriguez, a chief negotiator who has been in contact with the L
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 03 2021
This file-representational photo shows UPDF soldiers marching at an event in 2018. UPDF officers recovered over 200 head of cattle on Tuesday. PHOTO/FILE/STEVEN ARIONG.
Summary
Witnesses say the warriors drove away more than 700 head of cattle.
Upon receiving the information about the raid, the UPDF soldiers exchanged fire with the warriors for half an hour.
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The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers have recovered 214 head of cattle that the Kotido Jie warriors had raided from Moroto District on Monday.
An unspecified number of armed cattle rustlers attacked Kobebe grazing area, which has thousands of livestock for Matheniko of Moroto and Turkana.