President Yoweri Museveni approved a huge coffee processing park for Luweero District, a joint project with Saudi Arabia worth one hundred sixty million dollars. Local officials confirm the Luwero Coffee Park will be built on Kasiso Road near Nimrod Hotel in Kasana, with a groundbreaking set for early next year. Acting District Commissioner Abel Bekunda said all government approvals are done, noting it will directly employ over two thousand people and support at least fifteen thousand more jobs indirectly.
The investment aims to boost Uganda's coffee export income significantly, part of a national plan to move from raw exports to finished products. Farmers in the area, like young grower Alisa Nangendo, say it solves a major market...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni promised big upgrades to roads, water, and health services for Sembabule District at a campaign rally. Speaking in heavy rain to a large crowd, he said his government already connected the once-remote area with tarmac roads from Mpigi to Masaka. Planned projects include fixing the Sembabule-Mateete-Mbiriizi road and the historic Lusalira-to-Sembabule route used during the guerrilla war. He also mentioned future work on roads linking Ntuusi to Nyabitanga and Mateete to Kyabakuza.
He attributed forty years of peace to his National Resistance Movement party rejecting ethnic and religious sectarianism. For water issues, he proposed sourcing from the Katonga River to address salty local supplies. On...
Libya's army chief, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, died in a plane crash in Turkey. The general and four other senior Libyan military officials were on a business jet flying from Ankara to Tripoli. Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh called the deaths a major national loss for his Government of National Unity.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya stated the Falcon 50 aircraft lost contact after requesting an emergency landing. Signal loss happened less than an hour after takeoff from Ankara. Search teams located the wreckage near the village of Kesikkavak, southwest of the capital. An investigation into the cause is starting. The group had been in Turkey for talks to deepen military and security cooperation between the two nations...
Farmers in Uganda's Ntungamo District finally won a long fight over their land. State Minister for Lands Sam Mayanja ordered the title for a key parcel transferred from the district government to the Kitondo Farmers Cooperative Society. Officials called the original titling a legal error, correcting a misinterpretation that wrongly gave the district control of land used communally for grazing since the 1940s.
The conflict started decades ago and got really bad in 2017, with farmers reporting violent eviction threats from people dressed like security forces. Locals said police often refused to even take their complaints. The dispute involved a specific plot where President Yoweri Museveni's aircraft lands during visits. After public...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg got arrested in London during a protest backing the Palestine Action group. The twenty-two-year-old was detained by City of London Police on Fenchurch Street for holding a sign supporting the organization, which is banned under UK terrorism laws. Other demonstrators used hammers and red paint to damage an office building linked to Aspen Insurance, a company protesters accuse of working with Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems. Police also arrested a man and a woman who glued themselves to the area.
Thunberg had previously called the jailed activists political prisoners in an online video, demanding their release. Those protesters are on a hunger strike, with several now hospitalized. Kamran Ahmed...
A Mexican Navy plane crashed near Texas, killing at least five people. The aircraft went down in Galveston Bay close to Scholes International Airport during foggy weather while on a medical mission for the Michou y Mau Foundation, a group that helps Mexican children with serious burns. One person is still missing, and two were rescued alive. Mexico's navy is coordinating search efforts with the US Coast Guard.
Video showed the wreckage almost underwater, with witnesses and police wading through the debris. A local yacht captain named Sky Decker brought officers to the site and found a severely injured woman trapped in the wreck with a tiny air pocket, breathing in bad jet fuel fumes. Rescuers, including a dive team, worked in thick fog...
Dancehall veteran Bounty Killer is catching serious flak online for backing Masicka over Gaza in that clash with Tommy Lee. A TikToker called One Kevin, with a couple of hundred thousand followers, is leading the charge against the Seaview artist. He's slamming Killer's career and personal life.
This vlogger claims he got a direct call from Vybz Kartel about the situation. He says Kartel told him he saw Bounty's statements and was a little disappointed, but didn't want his fans to attack the older artist. According to One Kevin, Kartel still respects Bounty as someone who helped him get rich early on. The vlogger then stated that the fifty-three-year-old veteran dealt with the Gaza boss roughly in the past. Because of that, he won't...
Video game legend Vince Zampella died in a California car wreck. The co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise was fifty-five. Electronic Arts, parent company of his studio Respawn Entertainment, confirmed his death.
The crash happened on a Los Angeles highway. A circulating video shows a Ferrari with two people inside swerving off the road after leaving a tunnel, hitting a barrier, flipping, and bursting into flames. Both occupants died at the scene. One passenger was thrown from the car while the driver was trapped inside. Officials have not stated if Zampella was driving. Bystanders tried to help, pulling one person from the wreckage.
His career took off after helping launch Call of Duty in 2003 with partners Jason West and Grant...
Jamaican online personality Swiiss Lee, legally named Rogay Clarke, is counting his blessings after a serious car crash. The comedian posted pictures on social media showing his badly damaged, high-end Mercedes-Benz, stationary on a road overseas. The front right side of the vehicle was smashed up. He confirmed nobody died in the accident, writing "Life over everything" for his more than seven hundred thousand TikTok followers.
Earlier in the year, he had proudly posted photos with the same Mercedes. Fans flooded the comments with support, one person repeating that having life meant everything was still good despite the sad situation.
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