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Daily Monitor Monday February 01 2021 Advertisement                                                                        KAMPALA-  The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will this week deliver its verdict on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Dominic Ongwen on war crimes and Ugandans in northern region will watch  a live stream.   Ongwen is facing 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda during the 20-year LRA insurgency that  saw more than 100,000 people and over 1.8 million others disp...

Daily Monitor Saturday January 30 2021 Security personess inspect a truck that was impouded with suspected stolen animals in Nwoya District 2018. PHOTOS/ FILE Advertisement On April 8 last year, Moses Onono, a livestock farmer and owner of Homa Farm in Omel A Village, Paicho Sub-county, Gulu City, woke up to the sight of cuttings in his fence as he went about his routine checks on the herd. Inside the kraal, something was terribly wrong, 25 of his 38 exotic bulls were missing.    About 700 metres from the fence appeared fresh tyre marks of a truck that seemed to have made several turns and ...

Daily Monitor Friday January 29 2021 The vehicle of the NRM mobiliser that was set ablaze at Ayago Bridge in Nwoya District last week. PHOTO /DENIS OMONY. Summary Mr Owachgiu said unknown people ambushed him on his way from Migyera in Nakasongola District to Ayago Bridge in Nwoya. Advertisement The Nissan pick-up truck of Mr Charles Owachgiu was carrying Mr Museveni’s campaign posters. Mr Owachgiu said unknown people ambushed him on his way from Migyera in Nakasongola District to Ayago Bridge in Nwoya. He said a man with an AK-47 rifle pulled him out of the car and dragged him inside Murchi...

Why 12 MPs lost bid for re-election in Acholi Thursday January 28 2021 Summary The lawmaker reportedly started feeling unwell last Saturday, two days after he lost his bid to represent the people of Aruu County in Parliament. Advertisement On Tuesday, January 19, Mr Samuel Odonga Otto, the Aruu County Member of Parliament, was taken to Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Gulu Town after he collapsed while recording a statement at Pader Central Police Station in Pader District. The lawmaker reportedly started feeling unwell last Saturday, two days after he lost his bid to represent the people o...

Ongwen was known as one of the more ruthless commanders of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He is from northern Uganda. His family indicates that he was born in 1980 and that the rebel group abducted him on his way to school in 1990, when he was about 10. Senior LRA leaders gave him military training, and he eventually became an LRA commander. After LRA forces left northern Uganda in 2005 and 2006, troops under Ongwen’s command repeatedly terrorized communities in Congo’s Haut Uele and Bas Uele districts. His troops were responsible for some of the LRA’s most vicious ...