The Sanyu Daily | Thursday, September 11, 2025
Good Morning!
🤗 Another lovely Thursday is here.
And we'll start it with...
📆 Today in History.
In 2001 – Terrorists hijacked 3 passenger planes and crashed into the Pentagon and World Trade Center towers in America - killing 2,731 people.
And Elsewhere in UG
The National Budget Conference for financial year 2026/2027 is ongoing at Speke Resort - Munyonyo. Ministry of Finance uses this annual event to:
1) Communicate government's budget needs, priorities & guidelines 2) Receive feedback on the planned needs. And 3) Account for past budget performance
⁉️ Yesterday we had a question on environment. And we were overwhelmed by your responses...thank you so much. Here is the correct answer
B. The rapid rate of deforestation and wetland encroachment.
In the news
📰 Today, President M7 is hosting His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan - on his first official visit to Uganda since becoming king in February 2025.
They visit is about:
▶ Launching the new Aga Khan University in Nakawa, Kampala. A seven-story university center with a nine-story student housing complex, and a four-story ambulatory care facility.
▶ Groundbreaking for the Aga Khan University Hospital: a 101-bed referral and teaching facility that will be completed in 2027.
These two initiatives are Agha Khan's largest single investments in education and healthcare in Uganda to date.
What about older or ongoing projects?
With a century of work and projects spanning various sectors - They run:
▶ The Aga Khan High School, Kampala. Established in 1959 as Uganda's first multicultural school. ▶ The Bujagali Hydropower Plant and the West Nile Rural Electrification Company ▶ Kampala Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ▶and The Serena Hotels in Kampala - among others.
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) also works in remote, rural areas to support poverty alleviation through financial literacy training, community savings groups, and youth skilling.
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The Sanyu Daily Team
💭 DAILY QUOTE
"Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world" Prince Karim Aga Khan
