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Daily Monitor Saturday February 06 2021 Head of the EU Delegation to Uganda Attilio Pacific (front left) and other EU diplomats meet former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (front right), at Mr Kyagulanyi’s home in Magere, Wakiso District on Thursday. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Advertisement President Museveni’s letter dated January 2, in which he suspended the operations of the European donor-funded Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) project, appears to be just a cont...

  A book, "Surviving COVID-19: The Neglected Remedy" has been launched in Lawra to educate and motivate people to grow and consume locally nutritious foods for improved health against the worlds deadliest disease. The book; a mini barefoot guide for agroecology series, put together by the Natural Food Barefoot Guide Writers Collective 2020 for the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), was launched by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD); a member...

After Musevenis win, Ugandans gradually return to preelection normal By Halima Gikandi © John Muchucha/AP Ugandas President Yoweri Museveni attends the state funeral of Kenyas former president Daniel Arap Moi in Nairobi, Kenya. Despite failing to dislodge the long-time leader Museveni, opposition challenger Bobi Wine has emerged from Ugandas Jan. 14, 2021, disputed polls as the countrys most powerful opposition leader after his party won the most seats of any opposition group ...

The Global Energy Agenda This stylized image of the Abu Dhabi skyline was created for use by the Atlantic Council for its Global Energy Forum. The Global Energy Agenda can also be read as a PDF. Download the full paper using the button below. The 2021 Energy Agenda: The Atlantic Council surveyed hundreds of leaders in the energy field, and this report summarizes their responses. The energy agenda for 2021 should be to realize the opportunities created by COVID-19 to build a more sustainable ene...

Regardless of your level of enthusiasm for Star Trek: Picard, if you have any interest at all in the future of the Trek universe in the wake of Star Trek: Nemesis—specifically, the fates of William Riker, Deanna Troi, and yes, albeit tangentially, Jean-Luc Picard himself—you must read this book. I went in having watched, and re-watched, key moments of Picard, and having read and written about the first Star Trek: Picard novel, Una McCormack’s The Last Best Hope. While that knowledge...

Customers in the queue at the MTN shop Lugogo, Kampala, UGANDA, May 2020. Photo by Jacqueline Banya / ILO-Kampala via Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Last year in March, the Ugandan government joined the world’s fight against COVID-19 with strict measures and restrictions to control its spread throughout the country. As citizens turned to the internet as a lifeline to access critical news about coronavirus regulations, exchange opinions, and share local information, the government activated several d...

Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo granted Shs 15m cash bail December 31, 2020 Nicholas Opiyo appearing in court via video link from Kitalya prison Renowned human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has been granted a Shs 15 million cash bail after spending more than a week in custody. Opiyo, the executive director of Chapter Four Uganda, a human rights organization was arrested last week on Tuesday with two others from a restaurant in Kamwokya in Kampala on allegat...

English By Halima Athumani Share on Facebook Print this page KAMPALA, UGANDA - Ugandan soldiers arrested opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine during a campaign stop Wednesday in the Kalangala district. This is the third time Wine has been arrested since launching his campaign to unseat President Yoweri Museveni.  "Kalangala is not one of the districts where campaigns were banned," said Joel Senyonyi, spokesperson of Wines National Uni...

December 30, 2020 02:58:33 pm On Wednesday human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo was freed on bail. Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga of the High Court ruled that Opiyo may be released from prison after making a cash deposit and surrendering his passport. Opiyo’s arrest on December 22 for allegedly violating the Anti-Money Laundering Act sparked worldwide criticism and concern. Ugandan authorities determined that Opiyo received funds for his organization, Chapter Four Uganda, th...

9 min read We have not ramped up governance or the effective and efficient utilisation of human and material resources for the benefit of most Nigerians as one of the major inadequacies of the solution to the problem. Where are the Police in all this? We might as well call for the return of the military as the political master, since we believe the solution rest on their shoulders. What emergency power does the president need when he is never on ground? My attention was drawn to...