SV: {UAH} Shipwreck on Africa's Lake Albert claims 98 lives: UN

La'Kitgum,

Tell me about it! The memory of the Amuro Land

issue is still fresh like yesterday.

On that day, the MPs came hurtling in from all

over like disorientated wild pigs asserting higher mite determination to die with the Amuro

locals. I hear, "Today is today, kama mbaya..., mbaya!! If death then death! We shall die with you here."

That very same evening they ran away like Lapiru-hurricane, excusing themselves that they had to return to Kampala to collect the new rides that President Museveni had offered them.

Duty called!

To date the people of Amuro still have judgement hanging over them till another doomsday is reality.

Noc'la gau

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den tisdag, 25 mars 2014 18:43 skrev Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com>:

The boat could have looked like this below.

Western Uganda boat accident death toll rises to 107

Written by Reuters, Tuesday, 25 March 2014

More than a hundred people died after a boat capsized in a lake along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ugandan police said on Monday after recovering more bodies.

The boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees tipped over early on Saturday in Lake Albert. Police say the boat was overloaded, a common factor in similar tragedies in the east African country.

The Albertine Rift region of Uganda is home to thousands of Congolese refugees who have fled strife at home over the years, particularly in DRC's eastern region, which has been plagued by violence involving various rebel groups.

Police estimate about 150 people were on the boat and they expect no more survivors.

"Since the rescue operations began on Saturday we have recovered 107 bodies and we think we have roughly accounted for every one although we can't rule out more bodies being found since our working number of those on board was an estimate," Charles Sebambulidde, the Albertine regional police commander told Reuters.

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boat accident

"At this time our search is for bodies because we don't think any more survivors are still out there."

Lake Albert is about 160 km long and 30 km wide and is the northernmost of a chain of lakes in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the Rift Valley.

The boat began its journey at the northern end of the lake and was heading south to a landing site on the Ugandan shoreline when it ran into trouble at around mid-morning.

Popular with local traders and fishermen, boats - often flimsy and overloaded - criss-cross the lake linking the towns and villages on the shoreline.

Accidents are relatively common on Uganda's lakes, which include Lake Victoria and Lake Edward, due to overloading, lack of maintenance and lax enforcement of safety standards.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com> wrote:

Laduma,

There is never an African country prepared for any disasters. Its only Africa where they know of an imminent disaster but chose not to prepare for the inevitable or prevent. Our Uganda is one such. Do you see another landslide hitting land of Masaba this year yet? Yeap. Its coming and perhaps govt already know the approx number going to to be buried alive but waaaapi...! Its elections time every day in Uganda and when such deadly disasters come, various groups and individuals use them for their own ends - politicians appear out of nowhere with other slamming the ministries and agencies while those in power make dry promises to never see it again, religious groups come to take a bite of any bread and water from international relief agencies, men and women go hunting for widows and widowers, traffickers go hunting for deprived and orphaned children, thieves go not to rescue or salvage souls but to dive into carcasses' pockets, even hyenas from K'moja are already enroute to ground zero to arrive on the precise days the landslides will occur.

The irony is, the Lumasaba are sharpening tools to decapitate little boys and dont care less bncos they were told last year it wouldnt happen again.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:42 AM, gaumoy nockrach-laduma <rawnuntamed@yahoo.com> wrote:

mAY THEIR SOULS REST. Yet sadly,this transpires how they conduct business in Africa.

For one, how does the UNHCR conduct repatriation

of refugees, really? Just tell them now you can go back home and that is it? You are on your own? 

The UNHCR in conjunction with the AU, should plan and conduct repatriation with possibility of following up.

Secondly, when ever disaster has struct, then you hear stuff like.

"..Saturday's disaster happened just days after the DRC authorities launched a campaign to enforce the wearing of life-jackets aboard all boats on the large nation's many waterways.."

 

How was the campaign launched and what are the signs?How many life-jackets had already been dispatched to respective ports?

None?

And what are the repercussions? Any reprisal?

So, how did they make this blend of home made launch?

Noc'la gaumoy

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den tisdag, 25 mars 2014 4:11 skrev Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com>:

Shipwreck on Africa's Lake Albert claims 98 lives: UN BYAFP    |    MARCH 24, 2014 , 5 : 36 PM GST     Share Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on googleShare on emailMore Sharing Services

Relatives and friends wait during the second day of rescue operations after a boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees capsized in Lake Albert along the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo border. Photo - Reuters

Kinshasa: At least 98 people died when a boat capsized at the weekend on Lake Albert, which lies between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday.  "Based on information UNHCR has received so far from the authorities and refugees, 41 people were rescued and 98 bodies recovered" after on Saturday's disaster, the refugee agency said in a statement.  "As many as 250 people may have been aboard the boat," added the UNHCR, which reported that the ill-fated vessel had been transporting Congolese refugees returning to their homeland from Uganda.  The UN agency said staff were "shocked and saddened" by the "tragedy ... in which a large number of Congolese refugees, including children, were drowned."  The boat that sank was "one of two that left from Hoima district on the eastern (Ugandan) side of the lake on Saturday morning, carrying refugees who had been living at Kyangwali refugee settlement but were heading back home to eastern DRC of their own accord," the UNHCR said.  Survivors were taken to the Bundibugyo district, to the southwest of the lake, where they have been taken under the wing of the Ugandan state and the UNHCR and its partner agencies, according to the statement.  Relatives have come from the DRC in a bid to identify family members at the district hospital. Navigation central Africa's Great Lakes can be as perilous as sailing in high seas when the weather is rough. Accidents often lead to very high casualty tolls, partly because of a lack of life-jackets and also because relatively few people know how to swim.  Saturday's disaster happened just days after the DRC authorities launched a campaign to enforce the wearing of life-jackets aboard all boats on the large nation's many waterways.  The UNHCR said that Uganda remains a haven for refugees. While most of the newly arrived ones have fled conflict in South Sudan, the country is still home to 175,000 Congolese among a total number of almost 329,000 refugees registered at the end of February.  The agency has in the past three months registered "a rise in the number of Congolese refugees spontaneously returning to the DRC", after the Congolese army last November won a major military victory over rebels of the Movement of March 23 (M23) in the troubled east.  Congolese people who decide to go home either cross Lake Albert or travel by road, the UNHCR added, stating that a campaign to warn refugees of the risks of taking to the water was already in hand.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

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