I am delighted by the appointment of Amb Adonia Ayebare to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Uganda by HE Yoweri K. Museveni. Well known figure to the people of #Burundi, his vital contribution as special envoy to our peace process remains etched in our memories.
Today I had an excellent interaction during my vetting with the appointments committee of Parliament of Uganda as they carried out their constitutional mandate. I outlined my vision for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
#LegalTechDialogues: "My key take home from your [@LouisNkizito] insightful submission is that as a lawyer, when engaging your business client, there are things you must not sweep under the carpet and key of them are the unit trusts. All advocates biased on the issue can now understand that it's quite a lucrative venture."
Adv. @TonyKiire - Director, @LTechDialogues@DiamondAdvocate@PentagonAdvocat
The glory and honour goes back to the Almighty God!
He knew us before we were born.
His works are perfect, and His ways are pure.
I thank H.E. @KagutaMuseveni for the trust and confidence in reappointing me as minister of state for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (Industry).
Congratulations Apostle Dr. Grace Lubega on this remarkable appointment as the First Chancellor of JBI University. ✨🎓
Ever since I started attending Phaneroo online, I have been deeply blessed by your teachings, wisdom, and revelation of God’s Word. Your ministry has stirred a deeper hunger in many of us ,especially young people who are searching for purpose, identity, discipline, spiritual growth, and truth in this generation.
What stands out about you is not only the knowledge you carry, but the passion you have for raising a generation that loves God wholeheartedly while pursuing excellence in every area of life.
Thank you for teaching us that it is possible to walk with God boldly, think deeply, grow spiritually, and still influence the world positively.
May God continue to increase you, strengthen you, and use you to transform generations to come. Congratulations once again on this well-deserved milestone.
@Phanerookampala 🤏🏾🤏🏾🤏🏾🤏🏾🤏🏾🤏🏾
There are people born not to be here long — and yet, in her 18 years, Yzeera, our daughter changed institutions and touched more lives than most do in a lifetime. The world, and our family, have lost a bright light.
My family and I are deeply grateful for every condolence, every message, and every quiet act of kindness we have received since the terrible news. Your love, and your gracious understanding that we needed space, has held us through the hardest days.
Grief has a way of clarifying what truly matters. Yzeera reminded me — in the way she lived — that legacy is not about longevity. It is about depth of impact. I am holding this conviction close in all that I do going forward.
I return to this space with a quieter heart, but a renewed lens on how @AWF_Official can achieve its vision. Again, I thank you all for your patience as I ease back into my new normal.
SET THE SPACE: #LegalTechDialogues returns this Thursday evening with a timely 'must-not-miss discussion on Uganda’s Oil & Gas sector.
Our special guest, Senior Adv. @DenisKusaasira of @AbmakAssociates, will break down the opportunities, challenges, and the evolving role of lawyers in the sector.
Tap here: https://t.co/aZOh5BLNWw
Special appreciation to: @DiamondAdvocate@ug_lawsociety@IsaacSsemakadde
I saw someone here claiming that any African man who marries a white woman is marrying a “rejected” white woman, referring to Hon. David Calvin Echodu’s wife. The level of ignorance some people proudly display here is honestly embarrassing.
His wife, Dr. Dorothy Caplow, is not some random “rejected” woman as some uninformed people are trying to imply. She is a highly educated American with a PhD and serves as CEO of Pilgrim Africa, an international NGO focused on fighting malaria and improving education outcomes in Africa. She has spent years involved in philanthropy, public health, and humanitarian work across Uganda and other African countries. The couple also has two children together.
Dr. Dorothy Caplow comes from a very prominent American intellectual and political family. She is the daughter of the late Theodore Caplow, a renowned American sociologist, professor, author, and adventurer who taught at institutions such as Columbia University, the University of Virginia, and George Washington University. Theodore Caplow was widely respected in the field of sociology and authored several influential academic works.
She is also the granddaughter of Clarence Douglas Dillon, one of the most influential American statesmen and financiers of the 20th century. Clarence Douglas Dillon served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1961 to 1965 under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before that, he served as United States Ambassador to France and was a major figure in American diplomacy and finance. He also chaired the Rockefeller Foundation and was associated with major global philanthropic initiatives.
The Dillon family is one of the most influential families in American political, financial, and philanthropic circles.
Some of you are so blinded by inferiority complexes and shallow stereotypes that you think every white woman who marries an African man must have “failed” somewhere in life. Meanwhile, many of these women come from elite, educated, wealthy, and highly influential families that most of you could never even access in three lifetimes. Exposure is important. Ignorance is expensive 🙄🥹
With heavy hearts, we share the passing of Dr. Marilyn Hickey on April 25, 2026. A faithful servant, she devoted her life to covering the earth with God’s Word. We mourn her loss, yet find peace knowing she is in the Lord’s presence and her ministry will continue for generations.
Hon. Beatrice Akello Akori, Minister of State for Economic Monitoring,
Officiates at the Grand Opening of the 7,000-seater Life Restoration Ministries Sanctuary, Nansana, Bujuuko, Uganda, on behalf of His Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Saturday, 25th April 2026. She was received by the hosts, Pastors Kenneth and Olivia Kato Mwesigwa, the Senior Pastor and his wife, and Pastor Robert and Jessica Kayanja, their spiritual parents and main celebrants. Church leaders and worshippers from across the country and overseas were in attendance.
The president encouraged believers to participate in the activities of wealth creation and thanked the church for working well with the government.
The event ended with a sumptuous lunch served for all guests in attendance.
#robertkayanja #yowerimuseveni #uggovernment #uganda
Kabalega SS is set to host the FUFA Schools of Excellence Football Clinics for Kitara region on the 17th and 18th May 2026
This is FIFA Talent Development Scheme
In 1986, a five-year-old boy in India fell asleep on a bench at a train station while waiting for his older brother to come back. His brother never returned.
The boy wandered onto an empty train carriage, thinking his brother might be inside. He fell asleep again. When he woke up, the doors were locked and the train was moving. It didn’t stop for nearly two days. When it finally did, he was in Kolkata, nearly 1,500 kilometres from home. He was too young to know his surname, couldn’t read, and had no idea what his hometown was called.
He survived alone on the streets for weeks, sleeping under station benches and scavenging scraps of food, before eventually being taken to an orphanage and declared a lost child. No one could trace where he came from.
He was adopted by a couple from Tasmania, Australia, who gave him a loving home and a new life. His name became Saroo Brierley. He grew up on the other side of the world.
But he never forgot. He held onto fragments: the image of a bridge near a train station, a water tower, a neighbourhood layout, the faces of his family.
In his mid-twenties, he discovered Google Earth. He calculated the rough distance the train could have covered based on how long he remembered being on it, drew a circle on a map around Kolkata, and began searching along every railway line within that radius. Some weeks he spent 30 hours scanning satellite images of towns across central India, looking for landmarks that matched his childhood memories. His family in Australia didn’t even know. They thought he was just browsing the internet.
In 2011, after years of searching, he found it. A water tower. A bridge. A ravine past a station. It was a neighbourhood called Ganesh Talai in the city of Khandwa. He zoomed in and recognised the streets he had walked as a small boy.
He flew to India and walked through the town until he found his family’s home. The door was chained shut and he feared the worst. Then people came out. One of them led him to a woman down the road.
It was his mother. She had never stopped looking for him. After 25 years, they were standing in front of each other.
What he didn’t know until that moment was that his brother Guddu, the one he’d been waiting for at the station that night, had been struck and killed by a train. His mother had spent 25 years searching for both sons. She learned what happened to one. She never stopped praying for the other.
His story became the book “A Long Way Home” and was adapted into the film “Lion,” which received six Academy Award nominations.
A sad thing happened in Japan
An 11-year-old boy named Yuki was reported missing in Kyoto.
His stepfather was out on the streets, handing flyers to neighbors, asking for help finding him.
This week, that same stepfather was arrested.
He has reportedly told police he “lost his temper and strangled” Yuki, then dumped the body in a mountain forest.
The boy’s mother, by every account, believed him until the end.
This is where most people will stop reading, and this is exactly where the harder conversation should start.
Japan has a quiet, persistent problem that rarely makes it into the English-language conversation about this country: children living with stepfathers or their mother’s new partners are overrepresented in serious child abuse cases.
In Japan, when child abuse crosses into criminal prosecution, around 72% of offenders are “father figures” — and within that group, over a third are stepfathers, adoptive fathers, or the mother’s live-in boyfriend.
Given that stepfamilies make up only around 7% of marriages in Japan, that share is not small.
Child welfare data tells a similar story, case after case — sustained beatings, torture, sexual abuse, disposal of bodies.
It is not that stepfathers are monsters. Most are not.
It is that a country that treats family as a private black box — where divorce still carries stigma, where mothers are often financially cornered into remarrying, where schools and neighbors are trained not to intrude — systematically fails to see the children inside those homes until it is far too late.
Yuki’s mother handed out flyers next to the man who now says he killed her son.
Japan just began allowing joint custody this month, after decades of delay.
But the harder reforms — mandatory home visits, real authority for child welfare workers, serious screening around non-biological caregivers — are still stuck.
This is not an abstract policy argument. It is the difference between an 11-year-old going to school next week, and an 11-year-old becoming a headline.
Rest in peace, Yuki.
Man to man:
Your children think you're Rambo. You are. But Rambo broke down too. And when life hits them at their worst hour, they need to remember that their Rambo had a God. Give them that memory now while you can.