THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
Good Morning !
🤗 Welcome to yet another beautiful Thursday.
We start with
📆 Today in History.
On this day in 1998 – Google was born. The internet company, which started as a University research project, was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
🌍And Elsewhere in Africa
The Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2025) is stating today in Algiers, Algeria. It is where senior African officials and business leaders gather to make trade and investment agreements.
Organized by Afreximbank in partnership with the African Union Commission and AfCFTA Secretariat, IATF2025 is the ultimate marketplace for African businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs.
⁉️ Banaye, It looks like we shall have over one million candidates standing in next year's elections!? ...Why are the numbers so big this time? What do you think?
Reply and let us know.
In the news
📰 Back in the day, Jinja used to be Uganda's Power house; roaring with hydro electric power - that powered hundred of factories making; sweet & sour beer, car tyres, garden boots , steel bars ...everything you can think of....but is it still the same?
Read this insightful daily monitor article to find out "How Jinja is reinventing itself as a key business hub in the region,"
📰 Did you know that the The Ziwa Rhino and Wildlife ranch is the only place with white Rhinos in Uganda?
Yes - and the Rhinos gave birth to 17 new calves. And to celebrate the new life - a Rhino Naming Ceremony will take place at the ranch on Monday 22nd September 2025
The ranch was yesterday visited by Lisa Chesney - UK's ambassador to Uganda - where she came face to face with the majestic Rhinos that had been declared extinct in Uganda in 1983.
She was hosted by UWA, UTB and ZIWA Rhino Sanctuary.
📰 Meanwhile, the race for Kampala Lord Mayorship has heated up after Beatrice Mao, wife to Justice Minister Norbert Mao, was successfuly nomitated by the EC yesterday.
She has promised unity for Kampalans. But will her rivals like incumbent; Erias Lukwago (PFF Party) and Ronald Balimwezo ( NUP) accept?
📰 Elsewhere, Burkina Faso’s has become the latest African country to outlaw homosexuality & LGBTQ practices. The Persons and Family Code law, which was passed last week introduces fines, prison sentences and sanctions for persons convicted.
That will be all for today.
But dont miss TUB - We review ' Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe' by Doreen Baingana
Cheers
The Sanyu Daily Team
💭 DAILY QUOTE
“I am deeply impressed by Uganda’s conservation efforts that have brought rhinos back from extinction to 48 individuals. I call on the global community to come to Uganda, name a rhino, and experience the incredible beauty of the Pearl of Africa.” Lisa Chesney - High Commissioner to Uganda.
