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KAMPALA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three family members were killed and six others injured in a New Year road accident in the central Uganda district of Buikwe, police said.

Uganda Traffic Police spokesperson Faridah Nampiima said in a statement issued here on Sunday that the Saturday accident happened after the car the family was travelling in crashed into a truck.

"Our police registered a fatal accident that claimed lives of three people including a juvenile, and injured other six seriously," Nampiima said, noting that the injured were rushed to a nearby health facility.

She said the cause of the accident had not been established but warned against speeding.

According to police data, some 20,000 road accidents occur nationwide annually, causing more than 2,000 deaths. - Xinhua

Charles Njonjo died aged 101 on Sunday, January 2, 2022. [File, Standard]

Kenya’s first native Attorney-General Charles Njonjo died of pneumonia on Sunday morning, his family has confirmed.

The ex-AG’s son-in-law, Carey Ngini, who is the husband of Njonjo’s second born daughter Mary Wambui Njonjo, in an exclusive interview with KTN News reporter Emmanuel Too, said the disease made Njonjo’s lungs to collapse. 

According to Ngini, the 101-year-old had been ailing for almost a year, starting 2020.

“Over the course of last year (2020) and this year (2021), he’d been battling one ailment or another, very well despite his age,” said Ngini, who gave KTN News an interview at the Kariokor Hindu Crematorium, where Njonjo was cremated at 10:30am on Sunday.

 

“As of this morning (Sunday, January 2), at around 5:15am, he breathed his last. It was actually as a result of a little bout of pneumonia, which he suffered. The pneumonia had compromised his lungs. His passing was peaceful. He was surrounded by his family members,” added the son-in-law.

Njonjo died at his Muthaiga home in Nairobi County.

Carey Ngini (pictured) gave an interview to KTN News on Sunday, January 2, at Kariokor Hindu Crematorium. [Screengrab] By Brian Okoth, The Standard

 

(Kitco News) - Barrick’s North Mara gold mine in Tanzania today announced that it had achieved its commitment to bring the operation’s tailings storage facility’s (TSF) pond back within its permitted design capacity by the end of this year.

According to the company’s statement, Barrick made the commitment to the Tanzanian government when it took over control of the mine in September 2019, at a time when the country’s National Environment Management Council (NEMC) had closed down the TSF, then holding significantly more water than it should.

The company’s chief operating officer for Africa and the Middle East, Willem Jacobs, described the achievement of the target as a huge milestone for North Mara and its team, who had made a “herculean effort to bring the badly neglected TSF into line with international best practice as well as Barrick’s own tailings management standards.”

Barrick said it spent over $65 million on the project, increasing the water treatment plant’s capacity 16-fold from 2.5 million litres per day to 40 million litres per day. The company noted that the addition of a brine treatment plant has reduced the volume of salts in the effluent water, enabling it to be stored safely.

The North Mara gold mine is located in north-west Tanzania in the Tarime district of the Mara region. It is around 100 kilometres east of Lake Victoria and 20 kilometres south of the Kenyan border.

North Mara started commercial production in 2002. The mine is a combined open pit and underground operation from two deposits, Gokona (underground) and Nyabirama (open pit). The process plant has the capacity to process an average of 8,000 tonnes of ore per day. North Mara produced 261,000 ounces of gold in 2020 at all-in sustaining costs of $929/ounce. - Vladimir Basov, Kitco News

 

The Kenya Pension Fund Investment Consortium, whose members control about $2.63 billion in assets under management, says it has identified 17 infrastructure projects in the water, energy, affordable housing and roads sectors that are viable for investment. PHOTO | PSCU

Kenya pension funds recorded the biggest growth in lending to government in 2021, helped by the National Treasury’s consistent issuance of long-term bonds, which favour their investment preferences.

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) data shows that pension funds grew their holdings of government debt by $1.8 billion to $11.05 billion between January 1 and December 17, ahead of banks, whose holdings went up by $1.55 billion to $17.9 billion.

Total domestic public debt stood at $35.54 billion in December, up from $30.63 billion in January, with the share held by pension funds going up from 30.3 percent to 31.3 percent in the period. Banks in the meantime saw their share of domestic debt fall from 53.3 percent to 50.3 percent.

For pension funds, long-term bonds align more closely with their long-term investment outlook, unlike banks which prefer shorter dated paper due to their shifting liquidity needs and the short term nature of deposits.

Kenya's Treasury has largely floated longer dated bonds this year in an effort to lengthen the maturity profile of domestic debt and reduce refinancing risk for the exchequer. By CHARLES MWANIKI, The East African

Rotarians have built a 48 bed dormitory in a school for orphans in Uganda so they will not have walk six miles through the bush.

 
 
The girls outside the dormitory at their Ugandan school

Rotarians from Kinver and Bewdley raised £14,000 for the Planting For Hope Uganda charity led by Kate Oakley which built the dormitory.

The building will provide safe accommodation for girls who can now get a full time education, clean water and two meals a day.

Kate Oakley said: "The girls are loving living in the dormitory. They feel really safe because they don't have the daily trek to and from school through bush and scrubland, along rough tracks. In the rainy season this journey is impossible so they miss several weeks of schooling which they hate.

"It's the first time any of them have slept in a proper bed with a mattress, pillow, sheets and blanket and not had to share a sleeping space on the floor with siblings." 

She added: "They have more time to relax with friends. Chores are fewer and shared and they do not have to walk several miles to and from school each day. Clean water is at hand and it is safe to drink straight from the water tank. They also have electricity so they can see to do homework."

Retired teacher Kate founded the charity with a young Ugandan graduate Apollo Saku in 2012 while volunteering and fundraising for another bush village in Uganda following the death of her husband. 

Since then continued sponsorship has funded the building, equipping and staffing of Cornerstone School which is the only school in the region that offers free places to children from destitute families. 

Ian Maddock, chairman of Kinver Rotary Club International Committee, said: "As a former headteacher I believe that we owe it to children, wherever in the world they may be, to educate them. It is a path out of poverty, can enhance their self-respect and enables them both to be self-sufficient and to contribute to their society.

"This project will provide this opportunity for countless children over the coming years."

Kate believes the Rotarians' fundraising efforts will change the lives of the Ugandan orphans beyond recognition. 

She said: "Kinver and Bewdley Rotary Clubs, together with District, have supported PfHU from the beginning. Two members of Bewdley Rotary have been out to visit the project in the bush village of Kititi on several occasions.

"I cannot thank Heart of England Rotary enough for the support they have given us. We would certainly not have this new dormitory without their help. Other projects they have funded include purchase of land to enable the women to grow food to feed their families, a borehole for clean water, water harvesting, solar panels, desks and bunk beds, sewing machines, showers and latrines."

She added: "We could not have achieved so much in the time without the tremendous support of Heart of England Rotary. We have achieved far more than we thought possible, in a relatively short time, because of that support." By Adam Smith, Express & Star News

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