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
With barely a month to Uganda’s 62nd Independence anniversary, a concerned citizen calling himself a historian, has asked the court in Kampala to issue orders to the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to immediately remove from all roads and streets within
The last time Babirye Nisha talked to her husband on the evening of May 27 he sounded melancholic: he complained of starvation and severe beating inside Ngenge Prison in Kapchorwa District. During the conversation by telephone that lasted for about a minute she
'Police shall not allow any form of demonstrations in crowded cities and towns to disrupt lawful activities'Uganda’s police has made it clear it will not allow protests in crowded places. And in neighboring Kenya where protests have created a
Daniel Arap Moi was born into a low-income peasant family in the Rift Valley of British colonial Kenya. Daniel Arap Moi is one of post-independence Africa’s longest-living leaders. However, his ignominious resignation at the end of 2002, 24 years after taking
Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, presides over the HouseThe August House Speaker, Rt Hon. Annet Anita Among, seems to be afflicted by a fear of the unknown or a person of double standards, as seen by her persistent suppression of House members from deb
A National Unity Platform(NUP) top man in Europe has finally released top concealed secrets regarding the man recently paraded in the media claiming to have falsely been used by the party to accuse the government of torturing him for politically motivated reason
Justice Minister Norbert Mao has recommended the removal of soldiers associated with the Fisheries Protection Unit from all water bodies in response to a petition from fish maw traders associations. The traders accuse the soldiers of the unit of engaging in torture and brutal arrests.Minis
Dr. Kizza Besigye, a former presidential candidate, took to his X account trashing Moses Simbwa who during the National Resistance Movement’s liberation day celebrations in Jinja openly confessed to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni that he was used by the opposition to defame the government wit
The Leader of the Opposition, Joel Ssenyonyi has described as illogical, the claims that opposition supporters are being abducted using drones and firearms, only to be subsequently held in government prisons and safe houses.""Is it conceivable that the opposition is employing drones a
