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Joined January 2017
The scary thing about AI deepfakes isn’t just the technology—it’s the "Liar’s Dividend." As fake videos become indistinguishable from reality, corrupt figures can simply claim real, incriminating evidence is "just AI." We are transitioning from "seeing is believing" to a world where absolutely nothing can be trusted at face value. How do we solve this? Is digital watermarking enough, or is the internet structurally broken? 👇
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The Crane has landed!!!🇬🇭 🎉 #AccraWeAreHere #ExploreUganda #UgairlinesXAccra #FlytheCrane
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IT'S LAUNCH DAY!😍 ACCRA: Here We Come ✈️🇬🇭 #FlytheCrane #UgairlinesXAccra #AccraWeAreHere
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Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. . . . . 1 Corinthians 4:2
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Happy World #Teachers Day
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Even in the midst of a crowd, you may fail to fit in! We invite you to join us at the feet of Jesus, where we all #belong 🔗 hopestartsherecd.org/ #hopestartshere #ByonnaBizzeBugya #AllThingsNew
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Dear friends. Our Thursday fellowship is on!
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"Be still, and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10
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The five-day Capacity Building Programme on 'Emerging Synthetic Drug Analysis' concluded successfully at NFSU, organised by the CoE-NDPS in collaboration with @narcoticsbureau. On the first day, the presidential address was delivered by Dr. J.M. Vyas, Vice-Chancellor of NFSU.
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Here comes the first Uganda Airlines Bombardier aircraft to touch down at Kabalega International Airport. On board are the Libyan players who have arrived in Uganda ahead of their AFCON 2027 qualifier match against the Uganda Cranes in Hoima.This is another historic moment for Kabalega International Airport. 📸 Credit: @AlansMwesigwa #UGALBY | #ExploreUganda
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The Chinese empire is roaring!
Bank of Kigali, Rwanda’s largest commercial bank, just became the first Rwandan lender to join China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). With the move, the bank can settle transactions directly in yuan, reducing reliance on the US dollar for trade with China. OVER 67 African banks spanning 38 countries have joined the CIPS network through varying levels of participation. CIPS completes cross-border yuan settlements in 300 milliseconds to 10 seconds, vastly outperforming SWIFT's 1 to 5 business days. Furthermore, its direct real-time clearing bypasses intermediate dollar conversions, cutting transaction costs by 95% to 98%.
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Here in Uganda once such happens every one gets out their phone to post the incident than doing the needful, we're still lagging morally
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Naye nedda bana Uganda namwe mulimba! 💔🥺🙌
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164 votes in favour! 🌍🗺️ This is an emotional day for me. After making this case in three books and countless contributions over many years, the world has finally agreed: Africa must be seen in its true size. We did it! ✊🏾🎉 #CorrectTheMap @SelmaHaddadi @rdussey #Togo @_AfricanUnion @africanofilter @mokymakura bbc.com/news/articles/ce30vp…
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Are you on? Share hope! #OneVoice27
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#TravelAdvisory 🇰🇪✈️ Dear Esteemed Guest, We wish to advise that Air Traffic Control operational challenges at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) are currently affecting flight operations into and out of the airport. This may result in delays to Uganda Airlines services operating to and from Nairobi. Our teams are closely monitoring the situation and working with the relevant aviation and airport authorities to minimise disruption to your travel. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to maintain safe and reliable operations. We will continue to provide updates as the situation evolves. For additional assistance please contact Uganda Airlines at +(256)200 406 400 or WhatsApp +256 740 008081 Management
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JUST IN: WHO declares Uganda’s Ebola outbreak officially over.
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We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years. For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours. It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt. And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works. Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life. And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward. Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug. For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark. This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it. I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime. I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field. I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer. We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.
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Day 3: R Programming Day at the ABI Summer School! Participants are learning from @pvanheus mastering everything from data wrangling to visualisation in R. Two days of hands-on coding. #ABISummerSchool #RProgramming #Bioinformatics #ACEUganda
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🧬 The ABI Bioinformatics Summer School is officially underway! Today marks the start of a two-week, hands-on training programme at ACE-Uganda, equipping African researchers with practical bioinformatics skills for genomic research. #ABISummerSchool #Bioinformatics
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