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John k kimbe
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Husband,Father,Teacher,Dentist, passionate about the elderly and a sports fan. LFC -YNWA!
Ntinda, Uganda Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@Neduszn8 There's no Kopite alive who'll ever forget Andrea Dossena's wonder goal against Man U!!! World class!
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@CJs__256 .... This is where your creative team should roll out a "mother of all" ads!!... When nature has lemons thrown at you.......

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The view from @CNN headquarters as I wait…
A little adrenaline, a few nerves - first time going LIVE.
About to go #OutFront on @OutFrontCNN to talk about the airplane incident I captured at Newark Liberty.
Let’s do this.




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Today we celebrated my mother for the gift of her service.
She taught us one lesson I will carry forever:
We still do good things anyway.
Whether our time on the stage is two days or three, we step up to the challenge, do our part, do it well — and then step off the stage to let others continue the good work.
It has been an absolute honour for her to serve this country as Chair of the Board for these 8 months. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 #DoGoodAnyway
#ServiceAboveSelf

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BREAKING: UEDCL Board Chair Terminated, MD Sent on Forced Leave Amid Reported Shake-up Major shake-up at @UEDCLTD. Board chair Lydia Ochieng-Obbo has been terminated, while Managing Director @PaulMwesigwa10 has been sent on forced leave, according to sources at the Ministry of Energy. Details remain unclear, with the Ministry of Energy expected to issue a statement. Read full story 👉ceo.co.ug/breaking-uedcl…
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It’s kind of crazy the amount of good we’ve been able to do thru a YouTube channel
23,000,000 Trees planted
33,000,000 Pounds of trash from ocean
10,000,000+ Meals to people in need
500,000 People getting water from our wells we built
$3,000,000 To war refugees for supplies
$1,000,000+ Clothes to people in need
20,000 Shoes to kids in Africa
3,000 People helped walk again
1,000 Deaf people helped hear
1,000 Blind people helped see
100+ Houses for homeless people
100+ Cars given away
100s Of Dogs rescued
3 Islands given away
1 Orphanage/School/Hospital/Town/Gym/Village Powered/etc
1 Chocolate brand that pays farmers fairly and audits child labor.
And over $50,000,000 given to people NOT including the stuff listed above. All while still in my 20s 🥰
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Regardless of political differences, all Ugandans should be grateful for public spirited, brilliant, selfless lawyers like @PhillipKarugaba.
They don’t make them like him often.
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I am monitoring the ongoing Ngogo Chimp Civil War in Kibale National Park. Chimp Group Center appears to be on the verge of routing. They've retreated from the Primate Lodge and their Alpha Male, Morton, appears to be heavily wounded or perhaps KIA.

The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
A rare and deadly “civil war” has broken out between two factions of chimps in Africa. on.wsj.com/48AuGRq
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Bank of Uganda Opening foreign exchange rates for Thursday, March 19, 2026.
To access more UGX exchange rates against other currencies :bou.or.ug/bouwebsite/Exc…

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I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.
We had a very good month.
Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.
By mid-February, we had something.
Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.
That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.
Here is what they said, in the order they said it.
February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.
February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.
I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.
February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.
February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.
Not happy with the pace.
We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.
Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.
Not happy with the pace.
February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.
I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.
February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.
February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.
Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."
Rejected.
Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.
The President said they rejected it.
I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.
February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.
February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.
I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.
February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.
The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.
February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.
February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.
The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."
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Echoing the words of @RKirunda. Uganda’s politicians misusing the law for their own gain will, one day, need the law to vindicate them.
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Uganda Airlines Ltd can only succeed if it is run as a commercial airline, not a political project. Global experience is clear: national carriers thrive when governance is professional, decisions are data-driven, and management is insulated from political interference. The Ethiopian Airlines model offers a practical African blueprint commercial autonomy, strong capitalization, disciplined fleet planning, and world-class human capital.
The airline must be fully capitalized to avoid survival-mode operations and stop-start growth. In its early and consolidation phases, fleet discipline is essential: operate no more than two aircraft types, preferably Boeing, to reduce training, maintenance, and inventory costs while improving reliability and safety.
Long-term sustainability also requires building a fully equipped in-house maintenance base (MRO). This lowers operating costs, strengthens technical independence, and creates future third-party revenue opportunities.
Leadership matters most. Uganda Airlines needs a CEO with extensive international airline experience, backed by a clear mandate and real authority to run the business commercially. The management team should consist of proven experts in marketing, flight operations, maintenance engineering, and financial control.
If governance is right, people are right, and politics stay out, Uganda Airlines can become competitive, credible, and profitable. #Aviation #UgandaAirlines #AirTransport #Governance
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