NEWS UPDATES AT 12 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE. Former opposition leader Kizza Besigye has asked President Museveni to apologize to Ugandans for humiliating them. Museveni while closing the government campaign to distribute mosquito nets warned that those found to be misusing them will be arrested. Besigye claims the president should have guided and counselled people on the use of the nets other than threaten to arrest them. He says many people misuse the nets because Museveni has made them poorer. Authorities at Entebbe Airport have placed an unidentified woman traveling from Nigeria under isolation after she developed signs of Ebola. Ministry of health PRO Rukia Nakamatte says samples from the patient have been taken to the Uganda Virus Research Institute and that results will be out in 24 hours. The country has since put screening centres at all entry points. This is in the wake of the deadly Ebola outbreak that has taken 1126 lives in West Africa. Chaos broke out in the city centre this morning when arcade traders from Corner House, Gaza Land and Galiraaya buildings started protesting over abrupt rent increment. The demonstration now remains peaceful but the traders want fees revised. They are also very angry with increment of the fee for dirty, stinking toilets from UGX300 to UGX500. The US state of Missouri is sending the National Guard to the town of Ferguson as protests escalate over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Governor Jay Nixon signed an order to help restore peace and order and to protect the citizens of Ferguson. The decision was made as police clashed with angry crowds shortly before a second night under curfew began. Police in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, said they came under attack and had no alternative but to respond. Capt Ron Johnson said protesters had thrown Molotov cocktails and bottles at security forces, and set up barricades before the five-hour curfew began at midnight It seems phone batteries always die at the same moment you need to make an important call. Now a new gadget could soon mean shouting at your phone could charge it. Researchers in London have created a new technology that uses sound, such as chants at a football ground or chatter in a coffee shop, to charge up mobile phones. The sound vibrations triggered the movement of material in the solar cell that caused it to improve efficiency by up to 40 per cent. Developing this research further, Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy-harvesting prototype that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise. RADIOICITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
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