At a time when political pressure, corruption allegations, sanctions, and growing public criticism continue to surround embattled Bukedea Woman MP Anita Among, many of her critics had hoped to see her political exit end in embarrassment and uncertainty.Instead, the outgoing Speaker is head
confidential dossier pieced together by covert intelligence shows that State actors put Anita Among under surveillance as early as 2021, when she was Deputy Speaker of Parliament.The voluminous collection of documents, a copy of which Weekend Monitor has seen, discloses that “a reliable
dramatic account shared by journalist Andrew Mwenda has sparked intense debate across Uganda’s political and social media spaces after he described an alleged high-level State House meeting in which President Yoweri Museveni confronted former Speaker Rebecca Kadaga over claims that she had soug
Uganda has demanded USD 4.3 million in compensation from Kenya for the families of three Ugandan geologists and two Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) officers killed by Turkana warriors in 2022. The figure was tabled at a high-level bilateral meeting in Kampala, following President Yoweri M
Former Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has once again found herself at the center of political conversation following her recent trip to Istanbul. Kadaga shared a message on X, formerly Twitter, describing a “crispy and cool morning” at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference
After reading on social media how money totaling Shs 4,190,000,000 was withdrawn within 8 hours, I feel perturbed, and my question is: did the previous Speakers know of this money being kept in the Parliamentary SACCO account? If they knew, what made them not use it the way the current leadership
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s political establishment was thrown into fresh turmoil on Saturday after the dramatic arrest of Parliament’s Director of Communication and Public Affairs, Chris Obore, in what insiders describe as an expanding anti-corruption crackdown targeting powerful figures li
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng is increasingly being mentioned in ruling party circles as a possible candidate for Deputy Speaker of Parliament in a major political arrangement aimed at balancing regional interests following the death of former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah.Highly placed NRM sou
As of Friday afternoon, majority, MPs had stopped taking phone calls from former speaker Anita Among. The reason is that they got reports that, as her close allies and aides get summoned to answer fraud-related questions, she must already be under 24-hour surveillance.The MPs are scared af
The Alliance for National Transformation spokesperson Gerald Karuhanga has defended his decision to contest the Ntungamo Municipality MP as an independent candidate, arguing that many Ugandans are more concerned about healthcare, jobs and education than political party affiliations.Gerald
