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Daily Monitor Wednesday January 27 2021 Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi (2nd right) shares a light moment with National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General Kasule Lumumba (left) and Minister for Presidency Esther Mbayo (right) during celebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of NRM Liberation Day at State House Entebbe on January 26, 2021. Summary The issue: NRM’s 35 years Our view: The architects of the Bush War should rethink their unique mission as self-professed compasses, to give national direction and create a Uganda with open political spaces for all. Advertisement The ru...

Tofail Ahmed , one of the organisers of the movement, takes a trip down memory lane to reflect on the significance of this occasion in the history of our independence struggle.   How do you recall what happened on this day and in the days before and after that? I feel at once pained, because of all the sacrifices that went into making our independence struggle successful, and extremely proud, because of what we achieved in the end. In hindsight, it was—all of it—worth it. For me, personally, those were the golden days of my life. I still vividly remember the events that led to this momen...

The Ghana Girl Guides Association has unveiled a new national logo for its transformational programme in the lives of girls and young women across the country as part of the 100-year anniversary celebrations.

Daily Monitor Thursday December 24 2020 Mr President, much as you have registered multiple successes in implementing the 10-Point Programme over the years, there are some perennial failures that you need to urgently address for the greater benefit for our beloved country. Despite the fact that you deserve credit for successes in security, energy, and tourism, you deserve condemnation in equal measure for the failures in service delivery and abating corruption. This because the buck stops with you as the head of government. Although 69 per cent of the citizenry believes that the fight against...

Daily Monitor Saturday December 19 2020 Summary The former Rakai District Woman MP was once a strong supporters of President Museveni. However, when she spoke out against the changing of term limits, she was fired. Advertisement Talking to former State Minister of Internal Affairs Sarah Kiyingi, you notice that she regrets ever venturing into politics. When she returned from the Netherlands in 1995, after living there for more than four years, running for political office was the last thing on her mind. Her plan was to join the academia as an assistant lecturer at Makerere University. But, sh...