Ndizeye Simon

Humanitarian, monitoring & evaluation, data, AI enthusiast, lover of nature, travel and interior design

[JLMP 🟦 @JLMPCoordinator]

Following a High-Level Launch of #JLMPPROPEL, the Programme’s Technical Committee is finalizing strategic priorities to be endorsed by the Steering Committee on 29 May.
Major priority is to support AU Member States in harnessing labour mobility for growth & regional integration.

[QatarEmbassy_Ethiopia @QatarEmbassyADD]

H.E. the Amb. of the State of Qatar🇶🇦to Ethiopia🇪🇹participated in the official launch of #JLMPPROPEL at the #AUC.This new phase aims to strengthen labour migration governance,expand opportunities,enhance protection, & promote decent employment for African workers
@JLMPCoordinator

[AU Health,Humanitarian Affairs&Social Development @AU_HHS]

Sweden’s Minister for Migration, Hon. @JohanForssell, visited #AUHQ to deepen the strong #AU–🇸🇪 partnership thru @AU_HHS & the #JLMP programme. On behalf of H.E @amma_twumamoah,
H.E @Banyankimbona5, Commissioner for @AUESTI held productive talks with the Minister.

🗓️22 April!

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

Kabushenga’s Thoughts

A Life of Exercise

Folks, this is for those of you whose parents are my generation or older. This morning along with my guys from the @mutungomadbus I did the 25km segment of the @KyambogoRun. After that I went to my spin class, for another challenge where we are doing 26 classes for the month of May.

My guys in both communities keep asking why I am doing this to myself. They think I am overdoing it & punishing myself. The answer is simple. A life of exercise like the one I live, is a hack against chronic illness. It significantly reduces chances of this happening by a wide margin. If it occurs, a person in good physical shape has a better fighting chance of curing or at least obviating the worst effects.

So what is my point? It is cheaper to do this than pay for medical treatment for chronic illness. So rather than dealing with the burden of fundraising for this & pain of nursing parents that are ill. If in fact you get your parents to switch to a life of exercise and change thier relationship with food, you will avoid this. I am not suggesting a crazy regime like mine. No. Just a daily walk, a cycling class, a nutrition approach that improves one’s metabolic health, good sleep, good content(reading books) & good company, will save you from stress of what I described earlier. The medical option should be complete last resort and you can do this. Share what I have posted with your folks. Have a lovely weekend

[AU Health,Humanitarian Affairs&Social Development @AU_HHS]

#JLMPPROPEL officially launches as the next phase of the Joint Labour Migration Programme—a flagship @_AfricanUnion initiative to strengthen labour migration governance. Bringing partners together to advance safe, orderly, rights-based & gender-responsive migration across 🌍.

[AU Health,Humanitarian Affairs&Social Development @AU_HHS]

The 3️⃣Phase, #JLMPPROPEL 2025–2029, builds on the foundation of #JLMP-Priority & Lead and focuses on promoting opportunities, protection, employment & labour integration—capturing both opportunities & responsibilities of labour mobility in the 2️⃣1️⃣century.

H.E @amma_twumamoah

[AU Health,Humanitarian Affairs&Social Development @AU_HHS]

The #JLMP shapes a positive & forward-looking labour migration regime, one that aligns with @_AfricanUnion long-term dev’t vision under Aspiration 6️⃣ of Agenda 2063 — an Africa whose development is people-driven and powered by the potential of its women and youth.
#JLMPPropel

[Mathieu flamini @mathieuflamini]

Most people are surprised when they hear I went from professional football to green chemistry.
But to me, it was a natural transition. ⚽️👨🏽‍🔬

Growing up in the south of France, I was surrounded by nature and the sea from an early age. As my football career progressed, so did my awareness of global warming and the impact that different industries have on the environment and on our health.

The products most of us use every day, from shampoos to cleaning products to paints, are still built on fossil-based ingredients. Changing that became my mission.🌱

In 2013, I co-founded GFBiochemicals to make everyday products safer and more sustainable using plant-based ingredients.

Football prepared me for this journey more than I expected the discipline, the resilience, and what it truly means to be part of a team. But there is an important shift: as a player, you’re judged on your own performance. As a founder & CEO, your role is to lead and inspire your team, and to share success together.

I spoke with Harvard Business Review France about my journey: the transition from international footballer to Green Chemistry entrepreneur, the challenge of building in a sector I came to as an outsider.

Read the full interview: https://t.co/wESh2lENho

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

Here’s an Ambassador who’s understood her assignment!

Juju is one of one!

[Adam Nuwamanya🇺🇬 @AdamNuwamanya]

TRIBUTE: Your calmness, gentility, wisdom, hospitality, patriotism, etc are what I will forever miss!

Kabale was said and aired on the Washington airwaves,
Always 'profoundly honoured and exceedingly humbled'

You inspired many of us!

You are now ashes but your spirit, legacy still encourage us to #KeepAfricanHopesAlive!

Continue to rest in peace, Shaka!
@AmamaMbabazi @VOANews @VOAStraightTalk

[Adam Nuwamanya🇺🇬 @AdamNuwamanya]

TRIBUTE: Shaka Ssali worked hard to beat nonsensical false prophecy by his teacher. . .

Down the memory lane at Kigezi College Butobere, Kabale.

One day, we shall remind some of you. Don't play around with destiny.

#RestInPeace, Shaka!

@VOANews @VOAStraightTalk @pndiho

[G-MA & G-PA @GPAIndiana]

Thirteen years ago, I was a brand-new ER nurse when a family was brought in after a wreck. The parents were gone before we could save them.
The only one left was their 3-year-old, Avery, staring at me as if I were the last safe person in the room.
She clung to me so hard. So I stayed. I brought apple juice. Found a kids' book. Read it three times because she kept whispering, "Again." At one point she tapped my badge and said, dead serious, "You're the good one."
A caseworker pulled me aside: "She's going into temporary placement. No next of kin."
I heard myself say, "Can I take her tonight? Just until you figure it out."
"You're single. You work shifts. You're young," she warned.
"I know, I said. "But I can't let her be carried off by strangers."
One night became a week. A week became months of home visits, parenting classes between shifts, and learning how to pack lunches.
The first time she called me "Dad," it slipped out in the freezer aisle.
So yeah. I adopted her.
I switched to a steadier schedule, started a college fund the minute I could, and made sure she never had to wonder if she was wanted.

[Ndizeye Simon @NdizeyeSimon]

@ApolloBuregyeya @drunken1758 I will be on the lookout for this. Great value addition opportunity prof!

[Ministry of Works & Transport @MoWT_Uganda]

What a statement for Uganda! 🇺🇬

The Grand Trans-Africa ELECTRIC Expedition has now covered over 3,000km, validating the reliability, safety and efficiency of the Kayoola E-Coach, now in Livingstone, Zambia, just 70 km from the Botswana border at Kazungula.

🫡As the nation watches this historic 13,000 km journey, we salute our Engineers, Innovators, and the team at Kiira Motors Corporation for demonstrating what homegrown technology can achieve across Africa’s toughest terrains!

🌍From the Pearl to the Cape! Uganda is moving; Africa is moving!

[📸 @KiiraMotors ]

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

More pictures of Amahoro cottage in kisoro 2 bedrooms overlooking the virungas in kisoro

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Destinations are respected because of the creative mimd of its people, not empty words

[wes @weskambale]

what happens in Lwera every holiday—those agonizing hours spent in endless traffic—says everything you need to know about our so-called deep state: clueless, classless, and crippled by a poverty of ambition

in functional states, the deep state—whether acknowledged or not—channels national resources into long-term infrastructure and dignity-enhancing amenities

you see it in regional flights connecting hinterlands to capitals, high-speed rail lines reducing travel times, vibrant private and public spaces, world-class franchises, and thoughtfully curated cultural experiences in music, art, books, fashion, etc

there, the deep state reflects a country's legacy and future

here, ours is tragically different. its imagination peaks at soulless arcades, V8 convoys, pork joints, and bars

so long as they make it to Kabagarame on Saturday, the 4-hour crawl through Lukaaya is irrelevant

so long as they see their soulless arcades—mostly empty—sprouting in the city, the potholes leading to them are just aesthetic inconveniences

so long as they have pork, beer, and meaningless chatter about big bums and crashing the opposition, building institutions of leisure, learning, or innovation is a distant afterthought

ours is a deep state without spine or soul, allergic to legacy, trapped in pseudo-pan-Africanist slogans sold to them by M7—loud on rhetoric, barren on substance

[Ndizeye Simon @NdizeyeSimon]

@LoukmanAli Ikoro hotel in Kisoro https://t.co/mtEes9SQHO

[Ndizeye Simon @NdizeyeSimon]

Congratulations 🎊 Uganda 🇺🇬

[Young Engineers Uganda @YoungEngneersUG]

UGANDA TAKES THE CROWN!🇺🇬🇨🇳

Congratulations to our brilliant team on emerging CHAMPIONS of the Galactic Defence Battle Enjoy AI 2024 Global Final
#UgandaWins #AIGlobalFinal #GalacticDefenceBattle #STEMEducation

[Young Engineers Uganda @YoungEngneersUG]

UGANDA TAKES THE CROWN!🇺🇬🇨🇳

Congratulations to our brilliant team on emerging CHAMPIONS of the Galactic Defence Battle Enjoy AI 2024 Global Final
#UgandaWins #AIGlobalFinal #GalacticDefenceBattle #STEMEducation

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The supposed ‘Best referee in the Premier League’ has wrecked what was a thrilling game of football, sacrificing it at the altar of pedantic bullsh*t.
Thank you, Mr Oliver! 👍