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How Muntu’s ANT is picking up the pieces from poll rubble Sunday April 18 2021 The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen Mugisha Muntu (C), with his supporters at Katabi Playgrounds in Entebbe during the just concluded elections. PHOTO | PAUL ADUDE Summary Turning the tide. Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) has been in existence for two years, but following a humiliating performance in the last general elections in which they didn’t secure a single...

Heart, vessel diseases leading cause of deaths, say experts Sunday April 18 2021 Surgeons operate on a patient at the Uganda Heart Institute at Mulago in Kampala on April 17, 2017 . Photos | Rachel Mabala Summary Dr Omagino, a cardiac (heart) surgeon, says the institute handles more than 20,000 patients with cardiovascular diseases annually, and that they have performed more than  7,000 heart operations since it started open heart surgery in 2007. Advertisement Diseases of heart and blood ves...

Daily Monitor Saturday April 17 2021 Summary Joseph Kasekende, who is a trained agriculturist and an extension service worker, went into the coffee nursery operation business in 1995 after undergoing a course in Robusta coffee cloning at Ntaawo Agricultural Research Institute in Mukono District. Advertisement For Joseph Kasekende of Bunyonyi Village, Miti Parish, Kalisizo Rural Sub-county, Kyotera District, coffee farming is a four-fold enterprise. His first enterprise is conventional coffee fa...

Daily Monitor Friday April 16 2021 Mr Kennedy Oyema, a security guard at the supermarket, told Daily Monitor that the Kabaka arrived at around 11am and spent at least 30 minutes in the supermarket. Summary Last week, at the requiem Mass of late Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga at St. Mary’s Cathedral Rubaga, Buganda Kingdom Premier Charles Peter Mayiga told mourners that Kabaka Mutebi had returned from Nairobi, Kenya, where he had visited his friends. Advertisement Business at a busy superma...

Bravo Acholi leaders on lowering bride price Friday April 16 2021 A dance troupe performs the Acholi Otole war dance during a cultural festival in Gulu Municipality in 2018. Such dances often accompany the Acholi traditional marriages. PHOTO/FILE/COURTESY/URN Summary Their son, Okot P’Bitek ,would have raised his hat to this, since he eloquently wrote about the economic strain of bride price on young couples wishing to marry, in his novel White Teeth. Advertisement I refer to the article abo...

Daily Monitor Friday April 16 2021 Buganda king Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II waves after arriving at his Mengo Palace for his 66th birthday celebrations on April 13, 2021. PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Summary According to the Katikkiro, king is getting the best care from health experts around him. Photos circulated on different social media platforms by kingdom officials on Friday morning showed the king and his queen being vaccinated, hours after he was on Thursday, seen shopping at a busy supermark...

We cannot ‘talk in whispers’ about poison anymore April 13, 2021 Written by Yusuf Serunkuma There is a viral video which once in a while appears on social media with General David Sejusa talking about the fear of poisoni...

Daily Monitor Sunday April 11 2021 President Museveni (left) meets religious leaders during the African Bishop’s conference in July 2019. PHOTOS/ FILE, RACHEL MABALA Summary Coming against a backdrop of unequivocal demands by President Museveni that religious leaders must leave politics to politicians, his revelations during Archbishop Kizito Lwanga’s funeral service at the Kololo Independence Grounds has only served to return the debate on whether or not religious leaders should be engagin...

Daily Monitor Saturday April 10 2021 Summary Mr Patrick Katagata says: Church and State should have good relations with one another and work together for the common good. Advertisement The State never said it had bad blood with  Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga but opportunist politicians jumped onto his demise suggesting foul play with the State first ‘suspected culprit’! Such politicians and their ilk premise[d] their claims on the fallen prelate’s unflinching boldness in pointing ou...

NUP lines up five as LoP debate heats up Saturday April 10 2021 National Unity Platform party president Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (left), addresses some of the party MPs at his home in Magere, Wakiso District on January 26. PHOTO/NMG Summary The Leader of the Opposition appoints and heads an alternative Shadow Cabinet whose duty is to challenge and influence government legislation on the floor of Parliament. Advertisement Being a party with majority Opposition MPs in Parliament, Natio...