Ikebesi Omoding

From the Outside Looking After prevaricating for several days, the Government has agreed to take deported illegal immigrants from the United States. It follows a US news report by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) that Presidents Donald Trump and Yoweri Museveni had reached a deportation deal as part of their drive to step up expulsions of migrants to countries where they do not have citizenship.

Not many young United States (US) of America politicians have recently attracted as much limelight as has 33-year-old Mr. Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The New Yorker and Queens resident assemblyman hit the US and international spotlight last month, when he won the Democratic Party primaries to stand for mayor of New York in November, later in the year. Now, coming visiting Uganda, Mamdani is back in the country to celebrate his marriage to Ms.  Rama Duwaji, with family and friends.

“We had to run away at night from home [Manyatta – kraal setting] because cattle rustlers came and took our cows. I was with my mother. We walked to Kangole [Trading Centre], then Katakwi (Town Council), [in the neighbouring Teso sub-region]. After two days of loitering around, we found ourselves in a truck.