and i have been in touch with some ugandans on social media today.ne said the social media tax makes it difficult to communicate with loved ones. people are only online when they finally manage to pay the tax, which is periodic. others are getting around that tax by using a virtual private network, or a vpn. and andrew wrote to me, in my opinion, this tax is nothing but a political move to try to gag or at least punish the most critical segment, the educated middle class. i will protest this tax for as long as i am able to. now, according to the government's own communications commission, the number of users has dropped by three million. that was between september and october. so, it would be even fewer users now. brent: it sounds like a good way to create a society of internet haves and have nots. all right. alex forrest whiting, alex, as always we appreciate it. tonight, there are renewed efforts to free a soccer player from a prison in thailand. hakeem al-araibi faces extradition back to his home country bahrain, and he does not want to go home. h

with some ugandan's on social media today catty may marry messages she said the social media tax makes it difficult to communicate with loved ones people are only online when they finally manage to pay the tax which is periodic now all this on getting around that tax by using a virtual private network or a v.p.n. and andrew wrote to me in my opinion this tax is nothing but a political move to try to gag or at least punish the most critical segment the educated middle class i will protest this tax for as long as i am able to now according to the government's own communications commission of the number of users has dropped by three million that was between september and october so it will be even fewer uses now it sounds like a good way to create a society of internet haves and have nots all right alex force why it is always alex we appreciated what tonight there are renewed efforts to free a soccer player from a prison in thailand. are even faces extradition back to his home country bahrain and he does not want to go home he was arrested more than two months ago in bangkok where he was

media companies like facebook whatsapp instagram and each person who uses it has to pay two hundred ugandan shillings a day that's round about five cents in terms of your raise and they also have to pay a one percent tax on the payment transaction itself now that doesn't sound like a huge amount of money but for many people they don't very much and the african technology consulting company called policy has done carried out their own research and they said that around forty percent of people that they spoke to were paying about six percent of that monthly pay just on this tax alone which just gives you an idea of how much it's costing you can do so it's expensive it was big the reaction well there was a lot of protest at the time that has died down to what it appears to on the surface but actually people are still very angry and i've been in touch with some ugandans on social media today cut to me mary messages she said the social media tax makes it difficult to communicate with loved ones people are only online when they finally managed to pay the tax which is periodic now others are getti

followed a number of criticisms that he had made about social media and in an open letter to all ugandans explaining why they were introducing this tax he wrote social media chatting is a luxury by those who are enjoying themselves all those who are on malicious so as well as science in his critics it's also a way for the government to make some cash because they need it so how does it work well it's cool it's a tax on over the talks of his that that's anything from say listening to a voicemail message over the internet to accessing social media platforms facebook what instagram and it means that users have to pay two hundred whew ganton shillings a day in tax that's around about five cents five year a sense plus another one percent tax on the payment transaction itself not by not sound like a huge amount of money but for many people it is and in fact the african technology consulting company policy has been carrying out its own research and it found that for a quarter of people that they spoke to this was six percent of them monthly just on this tax alone ok so we can understand then why

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this has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. one of the biggest challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. fish from outside the capital kampala. to fish farming you have to keep flushing your points all the time so you can imagine the amount of money that we spent just to make sure that we had what i'm reading into that different point every ten thousand. she's taking part in a union funded project called v h one she and the other fish from us are learning about a new technology. it was developed by a team of european and african scientists the project is led by professor young from the university of kansas way in germany the team has come up with a new system green use west water in order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. one develop a system for the market it's called research aquaculture so this is to make. hundred percent water reuse recycle so it's environmentally very friendly because there's no water going through and there's no nothing spoiling the environment and we make use of renewable energy in order to redu

co and also guarantee an extension of the proxy leaders because of the region basically who's the ugandan president when he's pro president but much more so kabila is in a state in which he couldn't really get in the other way except by these. state has vowed to confront iranian influence in the middle east and expel every last iranian boot from syria my pompei are made the comments during a keynote address at the american university in cairo which outlined the u.s. administration's policy for the region charles stratford has. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was touring the middle east almost described as a mission focused on shoring up support among arab allies against iran. since withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal last year the u.s. has increased pressure on teheran which he accuses of being a destabilizing force in the region many middle east experts say pushing iran into a corner is a dangerous move but in the egyptian capital cairo america's top diplomat didn't mince his words the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve econom

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congo and also guarantee an extension of the proxy leaders because of the region basically who's the ugandan president during his pro president but much more so kabila is in a state in which he couldn't really get any other way except by these and so what what would he be asking for protection for him. to protect him his family and by extension protection for him and the interest that actually kept him in power for the zones how concerned are you that this that there could be more violence as a result of this if people do believe that it wasn't a fair result and then what will happen i think that is probably the more important thing and at the moment because it is a position versus a position. you can say he has got the advantage that he's got the name of his father his father was extremely popular opposition leader and in fact a lot of the votes that he would have got on married anyway would have been as a result of his father so partly because of that maybe to me mean that there's a possibility that there would have composition they were to talk acetic as they did talking to for you but i

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