#𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕄𝕒𝕟 👨🏻‍🌾

التلفزيون الإيراني يبث تحذيرًا للمواطنين حال وقوع ضربة نووية: لا تنظروا إلى الضوء شديد الانفجار واستلقوا على الأرض وغطوا الرأس والوجه. ========== 🔴 لا تنظروا إلى الضوء شديد الانفجار، واحتموا خلف حاجز، واستلقوا على الأرض، وغطوا الرأس والوجه. 🔴 بعد مرور موجة الانفجار ادخلوا أقرب مبنى، لا تبقوا للمشاهدة أو التصوير، ولا تحتموا داخل السيارة، وابتعدوا عن النوافذ والجدران الخارجية. 🔴 اغتسلوا بماء فاتر وصابون، واستخدموا شامبو عاديًا بلا بلسم، وإن تعذّر الاستحمام فنظفوا الوجه واليدين والجلد المكشوف بالماء أو المناديل المبللة. 🔴 استخدموا مياهًا معبأة وطعامًا مغلفًا، واستعدوا للبقاء في الملجأ 24 ساعة على الأقل، وإن اندلعت نيران في المبنى أو خشي انهياره، انتقلوا إلى ملجأ أكثر أمانًا. 🔴 لا تفترضوا أن البيئة أصبحت آمنة بعد 24 ساعة، اتبعوا الإعلانات الرسمية وبيانات الطوارئ لمسار الخروج الآمن.

To think that you have time.

The business of pharmacies. A pharmacy every few metres, in some places, 3 or 4 a few metres apart. Whats the secret?

If there was a chance to change your career today, which career would you pursue? Me: Sports Administrator/Lawyer.

This is a fairly lazy take from Mr Andrew Mwenda; the kind we have, sadly, come to expect. He has peppered it with numbers,spat out at breakneck speed, at a host who in an attempt to keep up with the speed of words from Mr Mwenda’s mouth, is left with very little time to check the numbers. He’s has no choice but just shake his head and take a lecture. Let’s tease apart what Mr Mwenda is actually saying: At the core of it, this is classic Mwenda; so committed to the art of spinning half-truths and then tying it to a chosen villain. In this case, the villain is the Protection of Sovereignty Act and the likes of Kiryowa Kiwanuka who helped push it through. The details however are more nuanced. 1-The fuel price question Any child with a basic working knowledge of economics knows that for many countries, including Uganda, their domestic currencies and oil form a predictable feedback loop. Uganda imports virtually all its petroleum needs in USD. With the Middle East war, you have close to 25% of global oil supply going off grid. You therefore have more dollars chasing less oil goods. The result is simple and needs no explanation. Throw in a recent relatively small but multiplicative UGX 200 excise duty passed for the 2026/27 budget and you start having some proper pain. That pain will be transmitted down the entire value chain, and the consumers will feel it in everything they purchase, including bread (monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…) The Petroleum Supply Act mandates a reserve supply of 21 days or so. Even if they emptied all those reserves, it wouldn’t surmount the pain the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has caused and continues to cause. 2-The Protection of Sovereignty Act. This is largely a red-herring from Mr Mwenda. It’s also lazy analysis. This Act was passed in May 2026 after numerous changes occasioned by major public backlash. What’s left of it is a skeleton of its previous draconian self. The non-watered down bill’s definition of “foreigner” and “an agent of a foreigner” certainly presented serious problems that could have crippled the economy super fast. The BOU Governor, Dr Michael Atingi-Ego warned about confidence risks, catastrophic effects on national reserves etc. The wider public also chimed in. So did the President. A watered down version of the bill was then presented and passed The bill’s main targets were narrowed down to the targets it was meant to stifle in the first place; political and civil society actors. FDI, portfolio investments, foreign remittances, commercial loans etc were pretty much exempt. Notification, not approval beyond a certain threshold for certain agents was instituted. For Mr Andrew Mwenda to argue as if the Act we are dealing with is a mirror image of the initial Bill that caused a public storm is either lazy, disingenuous or deliberate distortion of facts to sell a contrived narrative. It’s hard to tell with him. The data is also against Mr Mwenda’s argument. At @PublicSquareEA, we’ve sent someone to King Fahad Plaza every few days to take pictures of dollar exchange boards in order to tabulate the true street figures. The decline in the shilling against the dollar was sharpest in Sept-Oct and this coincided with a steeper global oil price increase. I mean, the price of gas is a central issue in the American midterm elections. Did they pass the Sovereignty Act too? Summarily, Mr Mwenda correctly flags policy choices to wit; Taxes, The earlier broad framing of the Act, Resistance to certain interventions like the President’s recent dismissal of the BOU’s intervention in the dollar market by saying Uganda wasn’t gonna prop up importers but instead concentrate on policies that drive domestic production. These compound external shocks. He glosses over structural constraints like landlocked logistics, heavy import dependence, delayed commercial oil production, and the limits of short-term forex fixes He can surely fashion a better argument if he only tried

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🙏 Dry weather today for Day 1 of PLE. Amen? Amen!

That Mamdani tweet is about to reach 1 million likes in less than 4 hours 🙆🏾‍♂️