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Daniel, Allan Omara

@Dannyug_

The man from SMACK. @smackObs. Data guy. A crewman of the Voyager!. Tennis Buff. Federer Loyalist. Opinions are my own.

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Men, you're not responsible for a woman's happiness. You'll break yourself trying to make her happy only to end up being let down. Avoid the miserable. They're always complaining, tired, bored & miserable.
Dubs⛧@onlydubsX

Jada Pinkett Smith says no matter how hard Will Smith tried to make her happy it didn’t work, adding she later realized it wasn’t his responsibility, which led her to seek happiness in other people while still married, claiming it helped her heal 😳🤔

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Uganda Airlines
Uganda Airlines@UG_Airlines·
#URTravelUpdates This morning of 3rd April 2026, Our flight from Johannesburg (JNB) to Entebbe (EBB) experienced a disruption approximately 45 minutes after take-off due to a bird strike, which resulted in a shattered windscreen. The flight crew made the decision to return to OR Tambo International Airport (JNB), where the aircraft landed safely. We confirm that all guests and crew are safe. The safety and security of our passengers and staff remain our highest priority. For inquiries, please contact our Customer Support Centre +256200406400, or WhatsApp us on +256740008081 Management
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Interesting and insightful post!!
Ronald Amanyire@amronaldo

DECEPTIVE PROPOSED AGE LIMIT ON USED MOTOR VEHICLES FY 2026/27 There is proposal in @Parliament_Ug to slash the age limit on imported used cars from 15 years to 13 years. And, as usual, they’re waving the “emissions” flag because they know it’s an easy sell to the public. But once you dig into the details, the whole thing starts to smell like something else entirely (REVENUE). Let’s stop pretending this is about the environment. Where the deception starts: ⏩Japan doesn’t impose age limits on cars for its own citizens. They don’t tell buyers, “By the way, this car expires in 13 years.” So why do we pretend that this is the global standard of managing emissions? ⏩Where is the evidence? When the age limit was cut to 15 years in 2018, did emissions drop? Did air quality improve? Did anyone even measure? Or are we just recycling the same unproven idea every few years? ⏩“Environmental Levy” is a convenient cash cow. Government collects it, but NEMA @nemaug, the agency responsible for the environment, doesn’t see a shilling (apart from the formal allocation per FY). ⏩If emissions were truly the concern, we would test vehicles before importation. The levy would depend on the result. The equipment is cheap, portable, and widely used elsewhere. But testing doesn’t generate the same easy target revenue as blanket levies. ⏩The levy should be tied to actual emission levels, publicly standardised UNBS @UNBSug . But transparency is the last thing anyone seems interested in. The myth of the “clean” brand-new car There’s this lazy assumption that brand-new cars are automatically clean, safe, and compliant. Except reality disagrees and I agree with reality: ⏩ Some “brand-new” imports from China, South Korea, Malaysia, etc., arrive with defects because Uganda doesn’t enforce standards on them. We do not have a standard for motor vehicles manufactured here or abroad. We go by what we get. China supplied Uganda road construction equipment and it did not even last two years. ⏩Government (the biggest buyer of new vehicles) imports cars with Euro 4 engines. ⏩Euro 4 was Europe’s standard in the year 2000. Europe is now on Euro 6. So while government lectures citizens about “old cars,” it’s buying vehicles with 26-year-old engine technology. ⏩ Industry experts point to the real culprit: **high sulphur fuel**. High sulphur = more sulphur dioxide = PM2.5 pollution + acid rain. But instead of fixing fuel quality, we blame the age of cars. ⏩ UNBS assumes new cars don’t need PiVOC. Yet I’ve been in “brand-new” cars in Brazil and South Africa that came with missing seatbelts. So what exactly are we trusting here? So what’s the logic? Because right now, it looks less like environmental policy and more like a revenue scheme dressed up as climate / emission concerns. If the goal were genuinely clean air, we’d fix fuel quality, enforce standards on all vehicles, and test emissions scientifically instead of punishing people for buying affordable cars.

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Two presidents. Two very different messages. Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan breaks down Donald Trump’s confusing speech, and a letter to Americans sent by Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian.
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Just when I thought developments are not yet that interesting. Iran would be proud of this church!😂😂😂
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It still blows my mind that we used to pay UGX 200–500 for ringtones on those old analogue and semi-digital phones. 😂 I’d waste a solid 15 minutes a day just scrolling through tones, hunting for the perfect one that hit different. Frank Sinatra and Akon were my absolute favorites. Their tracks kept me entertained for hours while I indulged in all my little vices. Fast-forward to now: thanks to the explosion of tech and Artificial Intelligence, you can grab pretty much any song, trim it into a custom ringtone for free, or even compose your own from scratch. But that’s just the beginning. The future is basically knocking on the door. With Alexa, Grok, and other AI platforms pushing toward AGI, we’re heading straight into holographic comms straight out of Star Wars. No more basic calls, the hustle of picking ringtones will feel like ancient history. Imagine holographic tech everywhere, projecting the person you’re talking to in real-time, as long as the internet is flowing. And with Starlink, Amazon Leo, and other satellite providers beaming high-speed internet from space, that sci-fi dream is turning into everyday life for people all over the world. 🌍 I’m genuinely hyped for what’s coming. I love change, even while I’m slowly fossilizing (in local slang). 😂 It would be interesting to know other people's go-to ringtone back in the day!!😂😂
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Parliament of Uganda
Parliament of Uganda@Parliament_Ug·
Government, through the State Minister of Finance, Hon. @henrymusasizi1, has tabled the tax bills for FY 2026/2027. The bills include: ➡️ Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Tax Procedures Codes (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Lotteries & Gaming (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ External Trade (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Stamp Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2026 ➡️ Traffic & Road Safety (Amendment) Bill, 2026 #PlenaryUg
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Right on point!!! Thank you for reminding everyone not to get tricked by the idea that things are always better somewhere else! It’s okay to compare things and see the differences. But we also need to look closely at how those other places actually set up and run the things we think our own country or continent is missing. We shouldn’t only talk at the big “macro” level. The small “micro” details matter just as much!
Chetuya Math Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago

When will Africans finally outgrow this embarrassing and childish tourist syndrome? An African flies to a European country, sees a shiny building or a fancy train, whips out their phone, and immediately runs to social media to cry, "When will our country have this?!" SPOILER ALERT : those train rides are not free. They are directly subsidized by the missing wealth and uncollected taxes of the developing world. Truth is that, while the rest of Europe was tripping over themselves to aggressively extract African resources by sending gunboats, missionaries, and colonial administrators to do their dirty work, Luxembourg was playing 3D chess. They did not need to get their hands bloody or dirty. Instead, they quietly positioned themselves as the ultimate offshore tollbooth for the wealth being plundered from the Global South. Here is how their white-collar criminal network operates: A massive multinational conglomerate digs up copper in Zambia, pumps crude in Nigeria, or mines cobalt in the DRC Congo. By any standard of fairness, the immense wealth generated from those resources should be taxed locally to build the exact same roads, schools, and train networks we keep drooling over. But the global financial system is rigged. Instead of paying their fair share, that corporation sets up a shell company and often literally just a dusty P.O. Box in Luxembourg. And then through the dark arts of corporate accounting known as "profit shifting" and "transfer pricing," the company manipulates its books. The African subsidiary, the one doing the actual extraction, magically records zero profit. Meanwhile, the Luxembourg P.O. Box records billions. Africa gets the environmental degradation, the exploited labor, and a depleted national treasury. Luxembourg gets the capital. Now, Luxembourg taxes these phantom P.O. boxes just enough to make it look legitimate, pulling in about 5% of their GDP. But that’s just the cover charge. When you factor in the massive ecosystem built to service this racket,the armies of corporate lawyers, wealth managers, auditors, and bankers designing these tax-dodging schemes, it accounts for a staggering 30% of Luxembourg’s entire GDP. Put the math together, and you realize that nearly 40% of their national wealth is a monument to laundered money. It is the most flawlessly executed heist in modern history. They managed to siphon the wealth of a continent without firing a single bullet or toppling a single regime.

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Good stuff!!! - Better than Trailers In safety and volume, I might add. There is a “But” in the compliment because of the Turn-Around-Time (TAT) on a one-way route. The reported 7–8 days for cargo from Mombasa to Kampala seems excessively long unless it includes port handling, customs, and offloading rather than pure transit time. Claims of 10 hours for an SGR cargo train from Mombasa to Naivasha also raise questions. Passenger SGR services cover Mombasa to Nairobi (approx. 484 km) in about 5–6 hours. Road travel takes 10–11 hours under normal conditions. At a conservative average speed of 100 km/h, the Mombasa–Nairobi leg alone should take roughly 4.8 hours (4 hours 48 minutes). Even adding 1 hour for loading/unloading at the Nairobi/Naivasha terminal, the journey to Naivasha shouldn’t exceed 6–7 hours maximum. Trains face far fewer delays than road traffic, so 10 hours appears overstated. Can anyone clarify the source of these figures? That said, let’s examine the full Mombasa-to-Kampala route under reasonable assumptions (100 km/h average speed, plus 1 hour per major stop for loading/unloading). Proposed stops follow logical patterns: Nakuru, Kisumu, and Malaba on the Kenyan side. Kenya side (Mombasa to Malaba): • Naivasha to Nakuru: 69 km → 41 min running + 1 hr stop • Nakuru to Kisumu: 191 km → 1 hr 55 min + 1 hr stop • Kisumu to Malaba: 138 km → 1 hr 23 min + 1 hr stop Subtotal (including stops): approx. 11 hours 45 minutes. Uganda side (Malaba to Kampala): Assuming intermediate stops at Tororo, Iganga, Jinja, Lugazi, Mukono, and Namanve for cargo handling: • Malaba–Tororo: 19 km → 11 min • Tororo–Iganga: 91 km → 55 min + 1 hr • Iganga–Jinja: 40 km → 24 min + 1 hr • Jinja–Lugazi: 38 km → 23 min + 1 hr • Lugazi–Mukono: 21 km → 13 min + 1 hr • Mukono–Namanve: 11 km → 6 min + 1 hr • Namanve–Kampala: 13 km → 8 min + 1 hr (final offload) Subtotal (including stops): 9 hours 17 minutes. Grand total pure transit + stops: Roughly 21 hours, about 1 day and 2 hours. This doesn’t align with 7–8 days for one-way movement. The discrepancy likely stems from real-world factors: port congestion, customs/border procedures, cargo consolidation, train scheduling/prioritization, or partial use of existing metre-gauge sections. Pure running time plus minimal stop points to far greater efficiency potential. If full SGR connectivity is realized (including ongoing extensions toward Malaba and beyond), dedicated freight services could transform regional logistics. Looping one train through western Uganda would be inefficient; a hub-and-spoke model with feeder locomotives into a central Kampala terminal would make more sense. I am curious to hear from those citing the 7–8 days: What exactly does that timeframe include? Data or sources would help refine this analysis. @RailwaysUganda @CEOEastAfrica @DailyMonitor @newvisionwire @KenyaRailways_
UGANDA RAILWAYS CORPORATION@RailwaysUganda

A worthy partner. How? Let me break it down. 1. Transit duration: SGR (Mombasa-Naivasha - 10hrs), MGR: Naivasha to Malaba - 30hrs, MGR: Malaba-Kampala - 12 hours. That is about 52 hours of non-stop movement. MGR: Mombasa-Kampala: 7-8 Days. ...../1-4

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U.S. Embassy Uganda
U.S. Embassy Uganda@USEmbassyUganda·
We will deny your visa if we believe your primary purpose of travel is to give birth in the United States to get U.S. citizenship for your child. This is not permitted.
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