Yan Diomande pens an incredibly emotional tribute to his late sister 💔:
🗣️ "Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you.
Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, 'Yo kid, you’re really good.'
But they still didn’t sign me.
Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no.
My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together.
You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears.
That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank.
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."
(Via The Players' Tribune)
48 teams have played and Amad Diallo has the most dribbles completed at this World Cup so far.
He came on as a substitute and played 34 minutes 🤯
Complete baller 💨
If you think Uganda’s high cost of living is exaggerated, try being a man in Kampala who has to meet the aesthetic, cosmetic, and financial standards of the modern woman.
The average Kampala man feels under constant pressure, running a race where the finish line keeps moving. It does not matter if he is a corporate executive in Kololo or a hustler in Kasokoso. It also does not matter if she is a live-in partner or a girlfriend he met three months ago at a nightclub in Industrial Area.
Visit any pork joint on a Tuesday evening, sit at an upscale rooftop bar, or ride a taxi to Mukono, and you will hear the same complaint. Kampala men are exhausted. The main cause of their stress is the realization that in this city, a woman’s satisfaction feels almost impossible to achieve.
To understand the Kampala woman, from a university student to a long-term partner, you must accept that her financial expectations grow faster than normal economic logic. She often sees a man’s honest budget as an insult.
If a man rents a decent two-bedroom in Kisaasi, his girlfriend will spend the weekend watching TikTok videos of houses in Kira and make him feel inadequate. If he buys a Toyota Wish to save her from public transport, she will not see it as love. She will ask why he did not get a Subaru Forester or a Mercedes to match her image.
Dissatisfaction has moved beyond cars and houses. Many women now demand a new physical identity, and this puts huge financial strain on men. A man can leave home in the morning with a dark-skinned partner and return to find she has lightened her skin with expensive creams and drips bought during his lunch break.
For men with deeper pockets, the demand escalates to medical tourism. A trip to Turkey or Egypt for a Brazilian Butt Lift has become a status symbol. The irony is painful. He funds surgery to reshape her body for TikTok views while he is still trying to pay the balance on his plot in Sonde. Worse, he is paying to upgrade an asset she intends to use to attract a wealthier man.
In Kampala’s relationship rules, running broke is treated as a moral failure. When a man’s income drops, the mood at home changes overnight. Chicken and fish are replaced by plain greens served with hostility. If the hardship lasts, the exit plan begins. Girlfriends become busy with church, meetings, or sick relatives while looking for a new sponsor online. Live-in partners withhold affection and hint to friends that they are wasting their best years.
Social media has made this worse through what locals call “plot culture.” Women compare their lives to influencers’ filtered posts and demand similar weekends at Lake Victoria resorts, regardless of the economy. The corporate woman often earns well but insists the man cover all rent, bills, and groceries while her own money funds hair, travel, and personal investments. If he asks for help during a bad month, he is labeled weak.
In poorer areas like Kasokoso, women use constant complaints as a survival tactic. They believe praise will make a man lazy or unfaithful, so they keep him in financial panic. Even young girlfriends request urgent transport or data money, then disappear and reappear with new nails and wigs.
The result is predictable. Bars fill up at 4 p.m. on weekdays. They are not just places for drinking. They are refuges where men escape sighs, ultimatums, and unappreciated effort at home. They find comfort knowing every man at the table is facing the same pressure.
The big question is when “a good man” changed from being responsible and present to being a magician who creates miracles in a struggling economy. Women say the cost of living demands ambition. Men reply that ambition dies in a home without gratitude.
Until women balance high expectations with appreciation, bars will stay full. If you are a Kampala man, what is your survival strategy? If you are a woman, is it wrong to expect your man to level up, or are men just making excuses for being broke?
✍🏼: Deox T
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
Our pre-season schedule is set! 🫡
Sat 18 July: Wrexham in Helsinki 🇫🇮
Fri 24 July: Rosenborg in Norway 🇳🇴
Sat 1 Aug: Atleti in Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sat 8 Aug: PSG in Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Wed 12 Aug: Leeds in Dublin 🇮🇪
Sat 15 Aug: AC Milan in Wroclaw 🇵🇱
INTRERN DOCTORS' PAY CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON PATIENT CARE, GENERALLY;
While the standoff between Young doctors and government lingers, there are questions that need to be asked:
I know there are many arguments about many things, like integrating that Intern-year into the Medical Degree programme; like saying they are still students under supervision... etc...these i understand.
But my questions go beyond these TECHNICAL RATIONALIZATIONS. They go to the EMPIRICAL MEDICAL SITUATION(something analysed, measurable/QUANTIFIABLE.
Who are these Medical Interns and how do they SUPPORT MEDICAL CARE in our Underdeveloped Countries?
What is patient- Doctors ratio...and what needs to be done.....etc.....
INTERN DOCTORS perform estimated 70-80% of frontline medical work in Uganda's public health facilities. These young doctors are not housed or fed, etc.
FINDINGS:
These unending strikes and fights cause
-LOW MORALE of these medical workers.
-It lowers the ETHICAL STANDARDS of Medical Care in hospitals.
-Shows reduction in QUALITY OF SERVICES due Dr Burnouts, etc. -Studies carried out(can Google it) show for instance, that this lack of MOTIVATION, etc, result in INCREASED MORTALITY for Children under 5 years and other most vulnerable groups.
-That hospital backlogs for serious medical cases increase by 55%!
So, as we watch, the bigger question is: WHAT IS THIS LACK OF PAY TO INTERNS HAVING ON THE POOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES OR CAN'T GO ABROAD?
We need to applaud our leaders when they get it right. So Thank you Your Grace! Btw, WHY CAN'T GOVERNMENT PAY ITS INTERN DOCTORS? I have been trying to understand it clearly: Why can't Government find money to pay a few thousand intern doctors? WHAT IS THE LOGIC? Because it is not the money as the Archbishop correctly points out. If you have Shs 200bn to spend on cars for People, many, who even FAILED THE ARTS you are refusing to pay for now, how can you FAIL TO FIND just Shs 28bn for 2000 INTERN DOCTORS?
WHAT IS THE LOGIC? Refusing to pay ARTS TEACHERS and you Pay SCIENCE TEACHERS MORE, produce the SCIENTISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY, then refuse to pay THESE SCIENTISTS, BUT INSTEAD PAY THE ARTISTS, even HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS(MPs) with Shs200bn FREE CARS? BTW, WHY DO WE GIVE FREE CARS TO MPs WHO EARN SHS 50 MILLION PER MONTH? WE WHO STRUGGLED WITH BLOOD AND SWEAT, AND THOUSANDS DIED TO BRING ABOUT THAT PARLIAMENT; THEY DON'T BUY CARS FOR US; AND WE DON'T DEMAND! We buy our own Cars. And those who can't, THEY USE TAXIS! So what is it with these POLITICAL FREELOADERS?
Here is my take: Either the People in charge are SUBVERSIVE; ie, silent enemies of the State, or they are extremely ignorant and incompetent! So, which is which? The GOVERNMENT has placed SCIENCE STUDY at the centre of the EDUCATION SYSTEM. I hear the President drumming it up daily. They even increased Salaries of Science teachers tenfold, and abandoned Arts teachers, etc. And in this endeavour, many young people are taking Science subjects: Medicine; Engineering; Food Science; AI, Environmental Science, etc.
Take THESE INTERNS/Doctors. The biggest field, perhaps second to ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(AI) today is BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY. There is so much going on in these areas which deal with the application of BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND ORGANISMS to make and use things like VACCINES, GENE THERAPY,etc, which are central in the quest for DISEASE ERADICATION. The Bridging of the gap between LABORATORY RESEARCH and PATIENT CARE is now the bedrock of GLOBAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS. So why would government not support people who are key in such fields; i ask again, WHAT IS THE LOGIC?
“You cannot say that you have Shs158 billion to purchase cars for MPs and then claim that you do not have Shs 28 billion to pay medical interns’ allowances, with the excuse that it would crush the economy. By the way, doctors are rarely in the hospitals. It is the medical interns who are everywhere doing the donkey work,” Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu
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NEMA SCORES MAJOR ENFORCEMENT WIN AS COURT FINES NYTIL UGX 180 MILLION
@nemaug has secured a major enforcement win after the Chief Magistrate of the Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court convicted Southern Range Nyanza Limited (NYTIL) and imposed a UGX 180 million fine for illegally discharging industrial effluent into a section of the River Nile. The company pleaded guilty to the charges.
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Visited this afternoon Tripple J Agro farm in Bombo. Its an 80 acre dairy farm with 140 dairy animals indoors ( zero grazing). They are powering their operations 100% with Bio-gas from the animal waste. Its zero waste for them.
They are also processing yogurt and gradually going into pasteurized and powdered milk.
Excited to see commercial farmers investing and developing whole value chains on farm and therefore creating Jobs!
Our strategy as government in the next 5 years is to ensure that all clusters of farmers ( small, medium & large ) get supported to fully produce with added value. PDM interventions will be scaled up to support more small holders while favorable ( low or no interest) credit facilities will be rolled-out through UDB and other government banks to support the medium and large scale clusters. This is how the agriculture sector will create more jobs and contribute substantially to the 10 fold growth strategy of the economy and be able to sustain the agro-industries.
🚨💣 BREAKING: Éderson to Manchester United, here we go!
Deal done with Atalanta for €45m package with add-ons included, agreement now in place.
Medical and formal steps to follow but deal in place.
Éderson will sign a four year deal plus option, as @TheAthleticFC reports.