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Despite global evidence that climate change-induced extreme weather events affect women disproportionately, the country’s policies are not gender-sensitive.

Daily Monitor Tuesday December 29 2020 Advertisement The year 2020, as former American President Franklin Roosevelt said of the 1941 attack on the Pearl Harbour, is a year which will live in infamy.  At no time in recent history, save the 1939-1945 period of the second world war, has the human race been tested and the world order turned upside down. The Corona virus continues its belligerently destructive path, testing science and shaking the foundations of our shared humanity.  That notwithstanding, the human race’s resilience and tenacity when faced with adversity, is remarkable. We fal...

Daily Monitor Saturday December 12 2020 Advertisement Disgruntled, bitter, angry. This is how many have described former Ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Matembe’s feelings towards President Museveni’s government. The former Mbarara Woman MP, who served in the same government for more than a decade, withdrew from elective politics in 2006 after a bitter fallout with Mr Museveni in 2003 over the removal of presidential term limits from the Constitution. It is, however, possible for one to forget that the former minister retired from active politics almost 15 years ago, because of consta...