As the world faces the rising effects of climate change, there is an urgent need to rally the population and governments towards promoting environmentally friendly farming practices (agroecology). The challenge is pressing in developing countries, where industrial agriculture characteris
Ms Denise Charity Atwine, a resident of Mende Sub-county in Wakiso District, did a self-breast check in 2018 and found a lump in her right breast. The lump was the size of a pea. She told her friend who had lost a mother due to breast cancer about the lump. Her friend recommended a d
Police in Lira District are holding a health worker over allegations of extortion of money from patients in exchange for medical services. Benedict Ogwal, a theatre assistant at Ogur Health Centre IV in Ogur Sub-county, Lira District was arrested on October 7, 2024 after some patient att
The Muhaire Education Trust Fund (METF) has called upon well-wishers and philanthropists to join it in funding the education of needy students across the country. Speaking to Daily Monitor yesterday, Dr William Tsimwa Muhairwe, the founder of METF, said this year the organisation was onl
Thirteen National Resistance Movement (NRM) party members seek to replace the late Kisoro District Woman Member of Parliament Sarah Nyirabashitsi Mateke through a by-election later this year. Campaigns ahead of party primaries started on Tuesday, a month after the ex-defense state minist
President Museveni has guaranteed to give Shs 2 billion to the Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO) of the womenâs council affiliated to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), the governing body of Muslims in the country. The money is geared towards backing the eco
Lord Jamar, an American rapper, DJ, record producer, actor, and podcaster, has expressed
Amidst all the news of corruption, misuse of public funds, incoherent census result numbers, disease outbreaks, war and deaths, the media, regardless of the perception of it being a harbinger of bad news, manages to deliver some rays of hope in form of positive happy-ever-after stories every
Police in the Busoga Sub-region are investigating the cause of a fire that engulfed homes in the Namutumba and Bugiri districts on the morning of October 8, resulting in the deaths of seven family members. In Namutumba District, a fire consumed a grass-thatched house in Buyoboya-Kibale V
How old were you in 1962? I was 14 and I was very lucky because I happened to have been raised in Katwe (a suburb in Kampala), so I walked to Kololo Airstrip where the Union Jack was to be lowered for the last time in Uganda at midnight. Everybody was excited. I witnessed the arrival
