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One of the biggest reasons for the erosion of NRM’s (and UPDF’s) popular image in Buganda has been the unfair treatment and excessive abuse of human rights, including shooting people dead...

Daily Monitor Monday January 25 2021 People wave at President Museveni during his victory drive on Masaka-Kampala highway last Thursday. Critics say the victory drive was a testament of the President’s fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi. PHOTO/KELVIN AYUHAIRE Summary  President Museveni’s victory drive last Thursday from his countryside home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District, through rural central Uganda en route to Kampala was, to polit...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Summary With both presidential and parliamentary elections concluded, Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering. Advertisement Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering. FDC When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) honchos sit down to do a forensic analysis of the recent elections, the outcome will be straightforward: not what they wanted. For the firs...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 The late Bishop Kaggwas potrait placed near his casket before the burial at Bukalasa Seminary on January 23, 2021 PHOTOS/ GERTRUDE MUTYABA Summary Rev Fr. John Baptist Kikomeko, who was a private secretary to the deceased, said the Bishop was a good time keeper and sometimes he could arrive at venues before the organisers. Bishop Kaggwa was ordained a priest in Rome on December 12, 1971, at the age of 28. After his doctorate studies, he was appointed vice re...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Summary I can remember vividly the weekend before that reactionary putsch took place. My uncle, Lt Col Michael Ombia, had just returned to Uganda from a one-year course at a Staff College in the UK. Advertisement Tomorrow, January 25, marks the 50th anniversary of a military coup d’état which brought to power Gen Idi Amin Dada who ruled Uganda with an iron hand for eight years until he was overthrown in April 1979 by Uganda exiles backed by the Tanzania P...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Summary One of the things Mr Museveni was angry about is sectarianism, and he said that Opposition politicians who are promising a new Uganda were instead introducing an old Uganda, which discriminated against Ugandans on the grounds of their tribes and religion. Advertisement President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni was clearly not happy when he addressed the nation on January 16 just hours after the Electoral Commission declared him the winner of the 2...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Musician Moses Ssali, aka Bebe Cool (centre), gives out NRM t-shirts in November 2020. The ruling party used celebrities to campaign for candidate Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE Summary As a communications practitioner, I know the power opinion leaders have in shaping public agenda, I also know how brands benefit from endorsements. However, not everyone is an opinion leader, Abiaz Rwamwiri writes. Advertisement The National Resistance Movement (NRM...

Elections

After another Museveni ‘victory’, Uganda is at a tipping point Rosebell Kagumire © The upcoming polls have been clouded by uncertainty and already marred by violence [Baz Ratner/Reute... Elections billboards for Ugandas President Yoweri Museveni, and opposition leader and presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, are seen on a street in Kampala, Uganda January 12, 2021 [Baz Ratner/Reuters] In Uganda, history is once again repeating itself – a st...

Daily Monitor Friday January 22 2021 Summary Mr Peter Mulira says: The mistake we make is trying to solve nationalities issue through political parties.   Advertisement It is claimed by some scholars that the population of the African continent 125,000 years ago was one hundred and twenty- five thousand people, which multiplied to around four million people by the end of the stone age. These ancestral Africans evolved and moved about the continent slowly populating it. Although initially it w...