joselyne kengonzi

What u are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

[wes @weskambale]

one of the lesser-known heroes in the fight against ebola is dr. julius rude monday, now a politician representin' bukonzo east in kasese district

he was the first physician in this country to document and alert authorities to an ebola outbreak in bundibugyo in 2007 while workin' at a remote health center in kikyo

his observation of patterns while treatin' patients from the same family with severe symptoms led him to identify what he first described as a "mysterious viral disease"

he also observed that treatments were not workin', caregivers were becomin' ill, and people attendin' burials were also fallin' sick

a pattern that pointed to somethin' far more serious than the illnesses health workers were accustomed to seein'

and that'd later become the bundibugyo ebola virus that we know today

without his keen observations, documentation, and persistence in raisin' the alarm, the story could perhaps have been very different

he also later went on to help protect liberia from another ebola outbreak while workin' with the world health organization as an epidemiologist and surveillance team lead

it's worth rememberin' the quiet and lesser-known professionals whose vigilance, expertise, and courage continue to help stop 'em before they become even worse

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

An Ebola ‘Conspiracy’?: Why is Uganda Blacklisted While DR Congo Where It Originated Gets a Pass?
It’s very difficult to get agreement on anything in politically polarised Uganda, but there is a rare growing consensus in the country that a "conspiracy" at play against it regarding the latest Ebola outbreak.
As is often the case, the virus originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where 452 confirmed cases, 1,000 suspected cases, and 82 deaths have been recorded - before spilling over into Uganda.
Uganda has registered 15 cases and just ONE (1) death, a 59-year-old Congolese man who had come into the country from the DRC.
This is where it gets strange. Despite this disparity, western governments have issued over a dozen strict travel advisories specifically targeting Uganda, far eclipsing those levied against the DRC, and even suspension of visas!!!. This has prompted Ugandan politicians and social media users to rail against them and sections of international media like Al Jazeera for "bundling Uganda with Congo" and treating the two as a single entity.
The situation in Kenya might throw some light on the Uganda case. Protests erupted in Nanyuki, in the mountainous central region of the country, over a proposed US Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base. This backdrop lends some credence to a disclosure from an authoritative Nairobi-based journalist who said: "We hear the US initially approached Uganda, which possesses the continent’s finest technical expertise on Ebola. Kampala refused, stating, 'We are too busy managing the spillover from Congo'."
If Kampala did indeed rebuff Washington, it is confounding given the Ugandan government’s long history of subservience to US interests. Yet, it might explain why conspiracy theories are thriving. Kampala likely suspects it is being internationally penalised for refusing to fall in line and serve as an Ebola "leper colony".
What is clear is how anomalous it is for a nation with minor spillover cases to be treated as the primary medical pariah.

[joselyne kengonzi @jkengonzi]

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[joselyne kengonzi @jkengonzi]

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[Susan Nsibirwa🇺🇬 @SueNsibirwa]

How do you explain the MP election debacle? The law was broken to declare you winner. #UgandaElections

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

Mental decolonization is not about rejecting all Western knowledge.

It is about no longer using Western knowledge as the only lens through which you understand yourself and your world.

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

False #EbolaReporting

To Media Houses in the Global North, perspective is key;

1. We are close to 50m of us living in Uganda. Only 15 cases of Ebola have been reported. Only one person died. The rest of us are living normally and responsibly.
2. There are more dying of violent crimes, civil war and traffic accidents in your countries than we are dying of Ebola
3. In your countries, you are contracting sexually transmitted diseases & NCDs faster than Ebola is spreading in Uganda
3. Our team of scientists & surveillance systems have built capacity to respond over decades of managing these situations. Has some respect for us.
4. Polite reminder-we coped better with Covid 19 than you did. Be humble
5. A simple online search will show you the geography of Uganda & DRC. Do the work
@MinofHealthUG @UgandaMediaCent @GCICUganda @TourismBoardUg

[Atukunda Isaac @Atukundaisaac1]

Currently Uganda's Dr to Patient ratio is 1:25,000 far below the WHO recommendation of 1:1000. What then is the Gov't's plan to address this shortage if it's not willing to pay intern Drs?

The issue isn't the numbers, the government hasn't prioritised payment for Intern Drs!

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Gov't can't find Ugx 24,000,000,000 to pay medical interns.

Medical interns contribute 80% workforce of Uganda's health sector.

Meanwhile, Parliament,Speaker, Deputy Speaker & LoP have a combined budget of Ugx 23,670,000,000 just for "Donations"
#UgandaParliamentExhibitionII

[joselyne kengonzi @jkengonzi]

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[Jordan Tumwesigye @JTumwesigye]

For once I agree with Baryomunsi. Government has trimmed the numbers in parliament in order to manage our public expenditure. Just recently, government cut down on the number of ministers. They are walking the talk on this one.

[Professor Awesome @rsnokes]

It's hard for me to explain to those outside #Uganda just how irritated the Ugandans are to be lumped in with DRC for the #Ebola epidemic. As of this writing, there have been hundreds of deaths and over 1000 cases in Congo, whereas Uganda has had only 9 cases -- three Congolese, four medical workers who treated them, one driver who drove them, and one other known contact. Only one person has died in Uganda, a Congolese.

So when WHO and Al Jazeera talks about the Ebola epidemic in "Congo and Uganda," it's like saying because there are wildfires in California, you should cancel a trip to the Grand Canyon because some Californians lit a campfire there. Yes, it is possible it *could* spread and you have to be vigilant, but these two situations are nowhere near the same magnitude.

As of this writing, the only Ugandan death has been the tourism industry.

[joselyne kengonzi @jkengonzi]

One week 🤔😱

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

The High Court in Kampala has ordered Luzira Prison authorities to grant Dr Kizza Besigye and Hajj Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya’s defense team full access to their clients, including on weekends and public holidays, to review state evidence ahead of their trial.
Justice Emmanuel Baguma’s directive follows strong objections from defense lawyers, who argued that the one-week preparation window granted by the state is entirely insufficient given the massive volume of information they must review.

#MonitorUpdates
📹@abubakerlubowa

[Yvonne Mpambara @__Mpambara]

Then change the law, @TumukundeTT you people can’t have your cake and eat it. Your very parliament passed the Uganda citizenship and immigration control act. It’s very clear on who cannot hold public office.

Your same parliament passed the protection of the sovereignty law, assented to by the very executive now breaking the law. We screamed our voices hoarse on its redundancy and irrelevance. You insisted it’s meant to protect the country and its citizens.

Citizens are now concerned about their sovereignty and you’re changing the goalposts yet again.

[Culton Scovia Nakamya @CultonScovia]

We shall say it over and over, Africa is not a country. It’s a region. Uganda and the DRC are different countries with distinct borders. Reporting cases collectively is unfair and a misrepresentation.

[Justine Kasule Lumumba @JustineLumumba]

The Government of Uganda notes with concern inaccurate reports on Ebola. Current facts show only 8 confirmed cases with all contacts identified, listed and under active follow-up. I urge all media and citizens to rely only on official @MinofHealthUG updates. @UgandaMediaCent

[Andrew Kyamagero @kyamageroandrew]

Let us be careful in reporting @AJEnglish ,@AJENews . A regional Ebola figure is not a Ugandan death certificate.

To say “DRC and Uganda have reported 263 cases and 43 deaths” without separating where the deaths occurred is not reporting. It is statistical fog dressed as public health communication.

Uganda must not be casually placed inside another country’s mortality column.

If there are deaths in Uganda, name the district, cite the Ministry of Health, and give the exact number.

If the deaths are largely or entirely elsewhere, say so with discipline.

In matters of public health, careless language can travel faster than disease.

Facts save lives. Sensationalism spreads panic.

[RT @RT_com]

Cuba UNVEILS breakthrough CANCER VACCINE Vaxira

Vaxira trains immune system to IDENTIFY and DESTROY lung cancer cells

‘All… achieved by country under DECADES of US economic blockade’ — Cuban Embassy US

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

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[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two decades ago, the message from Netanyahu was clear: the then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was so rabidly antisemitic that he deserved to be compared to Hitler.

Ahmadinejad was so eager to pursue a nuclear weapons programme that he was prepared to defy the country’s supreme religious leader. He was so mentally unstable that he was ready to use those weapons to exterminate Israel, even though such a move would ensure a retaliatory nuclear counter-strike on his own country.

Lest we forget, Ahmadinejad had a reputation for such ruthless crackdowns on political opponents that Amnesty International noted in 2014 that his rule had “sounded the death knell for academic freedom in Iran”.

Yet, fast forward two decades, and Netanyahu reportedly now thinks Ahmadinejad is the best person to lead Iran; the person for whom it was worth killing Khamenei, Iran’s most influential opponent of nuclear weapons.

The New York Times reports that in recent years, there were strong suspicions inside Iran that Israel, Britain and the US were cultivating ties with Ahmadinejad and those around him – suspicions that now seem to be confirmed by Israel’s regime-change plan.

The newspaper further reports that Ahmadinejad had recently travelled to both Guatemala and Hungary, countries with very close ties to Israel.

Does any of this make sense? And yet for western media, the fact that Netanyahu was championing Ahmadinejad as Iran’s saviour, and that the US administration wholeheartedly bought into this idea, is little more than “surprising”.

In truth, it wrecks Israel’s entire narrative about Iran. It is a telling reminder of the yawning gap between what we have been told about Iran for decades, and what has actually been going on.

Image and reality bear almost no resemblance to each other. This has all been smoke and mirrors.

In my 2008 book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations, I pointed out that nothing Israel was telling us about its Middle Eastern rival could be accepted at face value – least of all Israel’s assertion that Ahmadinejad was a Jew-hating “new Hitler”.

Many of the claims promoted 20 years ago by Israel about Ahmadinejad’s genocidal intent stemmed from a mistranslation of a speech in which the Iranian leader had quoted the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

According to western politicians and media, Ahmadinejad had called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” – widely portrayed as an ambition to launch a nuclear strike on Israel.

In fact, Ahmadinejad had been repeating Khomeini’s observation that Israel could not survive indefinitely in the form of an illegitimate Jewish supremacist state oppressing another people. He was pointing out that Israel’s days as a racist state were numbered, just as apartheid South Africa’s had been.

The sentiment behind Khomeini’s statement should be much clearer in the present circumstances, when it is Israel, not Iran, that has been busy wiping people off the map – in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Similarly, Israel and its western allies made a great deal of noise in 2006 when Ahmadinejad called what was widely misrepresented as a “Holocaust denial” conference in Tehran. In fact, Ahmadinejad had organised what was intended to be a provocative – and to some, offensive – stunt to challenge western taboos about Israel and underscore the West’s hypocrisy towards Muslims.

Ahmadinejad’s point was twofold: firstly, if Muslims are not entitled to have their beliefs and sensitivities respected by westerners – as evidenced by the 2005 “Danish cartoon affair” and the “free speech” defence for presenting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad – why should westerners expect their own sensitivities about Israel and the Holocaust to be exempt from challenge?

He also wanted to dissect the western belief that someone else, the Palestinian people, should pay a heavy price, including decades of dispossession and abuse, for the West’s crimes against Europe’s Jews.

That was a warning we should have taken seriously at the time – and that might have forestalled the current genocide.

This is an extract from my latest article Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

We must reclaim our names, our languages, and our cultures, because a people without identity is easily controlled. -Sankara