Uganda – Kenya border villages in Karamoja and Sebei Sub-regions are still the hotspots where girls and women are being mutilated, Monitor has learnt. The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) point focal person for Moroto District, Mr Moses Loru King, said cases of FGM at border villages h
Before the September 14 burial of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei at her ancestral home in Bukwo District in Eastern Uganda, pleas were being made for some kind of desperate implementation to end Gender-Based Violence (GBV) being directed towards successful female athletes. Cheptegei,
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Police in Kyotera district are investigating an armed robbery in which assailants stole 150 million shillings from Pulinali Semanda, a 53-year-old businessman and owner of Zavuga Coffee Investments.The incident oc
Corruption in Uganda has a thriving soft life despite the endless haranguing by President Yoweri Museveni.Museveni and his audience have lost count of the number of times he has promised to do something about corruption. He has talked about corruption (ev
Police in Kampala have apprehended 30 individuals for engaging in unlawful demonstrations against the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).Hundreds of people gathered outside Chinese embassies and financial institutions in 10 countr
Simon Peter Mundeyi, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spokespersonThe Ugandan Department of Inspection and Legal Services, under the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, has deported over 300 illegal immigrants.This followed a six-month security operation targeting il
Kato John Ssenfuma, a 40-year-old teacher at one of the schools in Mityana, was arrested earlier this week on allegations of attempting to defile a 15-year-old girl, a student at the school where he teaches.The incident has become a public matter, sparking massive reactions, with the major
Police in Masaka City have arrested two women for allegedly stealing a newborn baby from Masaka Regional Referral Hospital. The mother of the baby, Ms. Charity Mbabazi, reported that two women unknown to her befriended her in the maternity ward on January 12, 2024. One of the suspects, Aisha Nalu
