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COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  Early morning of June 1, 2021, Uganda’s media was flooded with images, short videos and news of the death of Gen. Katumba Wamala’s daughter, his driver and the near miss of the former army commander himself. Still unknown people on motorcycles were responsible for this criminal …

An open letter to the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta: The case for more women in cabinet and a female Speaker of Parliament: OPEN LETTER | MAY 21, 2021 | The Women’s Movement of Uganda congratulates the people of Uganda and its leaders for a fairly successful election process and …

COMMENT | Theophilus Oladipo | On the 4th of May 2021, the sexual offences bill passed the third reading stage at the Ugandan Parliament. Since 2019, the bill has been a source of debate and worry. Apart from the fact that it needlessly confirms what has mostly been criminalized, it raises …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |   Last week, Daily Monitor reported an arrest of seven suspects in Rubaga found with electricity materials and gadgets worth over sh3 billion. It was earlier reported that vandalism was rampant in Kiboga district,  where electric wires, surge arrestors, polymeric insulators among other items were stolen. Responding …

The MetLife Mental Health Report,2020 indicates that, globally 41% of Employees regularly feel stressed, burned out and depressed at work COMMENT | Beatrice Mujuni  | The fancy office building with excellent lighting, a perfect view, air-condition, fire alarms, top notch security systems, squeaky clean tables and sparkling floors is literally a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Digital terrestrial Pay-Tv service, GOtv, in partnership with Voice of Africa (VoA) has kicked off its annual Ramadan giveaways that will include Iftar for several mosques, food items, prayer mats, GOtv decoders, T-shirts among others. The activations were launched at the Masjid Takuwa Mosque in …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  The news on the morning of 28th April 2021 was the fire at Budo Grace- girl’s dormitory. Luckily no life was lost. On the same day, another building at a school not far from Budo was also reported to be on fire. According to the Uganda …

    None of these vaccines has the ability to cause COVID-19 disease, but they may occasionally trigger side effects COVID-19 SPECIAL FEATURE  |  Linda Geddes |  Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognise a pathogen – such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 – without making you …

How attempts to tarnish the name and record of Paul Kagame soils the reputation of a British journalist THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Finally, I have finished reading Michela Wrong’s 516 memoir of Patrick Karegyeya; a former Rwandan intelligence chief who was killed on or about New Year’s …

Social instability, COVID-19, and governmental nonfeasance have made the United States an abyss of human rights abuses Beijing, China | COMMENT – Xinhua | The fine gloss that Washington has tried to put on its tainted human rights record was once again removed as the Report on Human Rights Violations in …