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Hon. Dr. Chris Baryomun appointed as the new Minister of ICT and National Guidance. (COURTESY PHOTO) Yoweri K. Museveni who is running for the sixth term as the President of Uganda has appointed his new 2021/26 Cabinet. The newly appointed Cabinet comprises of 25 Ministers and 50 State Ministers. In the new Cabinet, Hon. Dr. Chris Baryomunsi has been appointed as the Minister of Information, Communications Technology, and National Guidance. He will be assisted by Ms. Joyce Ssebugwawo as the State Minister for ICT and National Guidance. Baryomunsi and Ssebugwawo replace Judith Nabakooba and Pe...

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Daily Monitor Monday April 12 2021 Summary The Amnesty International Reports says Opposition politicians, journalists and others were arrested, detained while exercising their various rights.  Advertisement The Ugandan authorities have continued to restrict the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, with security forces using excessive and unnecessary lethal force to kill Ugandans, a new report released by the Amnesty International states. The State of world’s Human Rights 2020/2021 report states that at least 66 people were killed by security forces from March...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 27 2021 Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah (left) and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga chairing plenary sessions of Parliament. Photo/ David Lubowa Summary Among the teams canvassing votes for the two rivals for the Speaker of Parliament job are MPs who were defeated in last month’s election but are still considered influential. Advertisement Underground work for the Speaker of Parliament job is fiercely going on, with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah having already formed core teams to reach out to MPs-elect ahead of the election scheduled for May 20. ...

Facebook pages associated with seven Uganda-based news websites were removed for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on 8 January, six days before the country’s presidential elections. Journalists, editors, and founders of the websites were included in the large network that Facebook linked to the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology’s Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC). In total, the corresponding Facebook pages of the seven websites had more than 119,000 total followers. Two of the linked websites, gorillanationug.com and pfu.co.ug, were inaccessible...