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“I saw African presidents on a bus attending the Queen’s funeral, President Museveni was missing. He also missed his daughter’s giveaway. I want to know if he’s okay, given his advanced age. You know you people removed the age limit so we have to keep checking on him."
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QUOTE: "Our leaders have stolen everything from us (Ugandan youth).I think if it were possible, they would even steal our age"- Ugandan musician, songwriter and dancer, Priscilla Zawedde aka Azawi (
@AzawiOfficial
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Quote: "Many Ugandans no longer feel that they can make it in Uganda because our leaders have stolen a lot that's meant for everyone. That partly explains the huge number of young girls leaving the country to go and work as housemaids in Arab countries. It's unfortunate that
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QUOTE: "I know our president is of advanced age. The law doesn't stop him from delegating but issues of defence and security are very serious matters. You can't run this country that way; where your wife says, 'Darling, can I be the one to speak about the attack in Kasese?'
'Okay
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"Rt Honorable Speaker, I'm told part of the reason we had the Kiteezi landfill collapse is corruption in
@KCCAUG
. Mr Speaker, we (MPs) don't even know the budget for this
@Parliament_Ug
. But I'm told there is a huge budget for Parliament to move around and hold plenary sessions
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"Recently when news came out that I was set to graduate, the usual detractors got busy and made every effort to stop me. Some people, ostensibly working for the regime and other detractors, went as far as petitioning the National Council for Higher Education. NCHE officials went
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The 10-year-old pilgrim, Catherine Ninsiima, who walked from Bushenyi District to Namugongo, Wakiso District to commemorate June 3 Uganda
#MartyrsDay2023
has been handed Shs2.36 million which was raised by well-wishers on Twitter and Facebook. Ninsiima's mother was also given a
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"I heard someone saying that LGBT, homosexuality & abortion are human rights which must be respected universally. I just want to assure you, they can never be accepted in Uganda.The
@Parliament_Ug
I lead will never pass laws that are against our values"-
@Thomas_Tayebwa
at ACP-EU
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BREAKING: Ugandan athlete Peruth Chemutai,22, wins gold in the women's 3,000m steeplechase at the Olympics
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BREAKING: Ugandan athlete Jacob Kiplimo wins gold in the 5000M at the Commonwealth games in Birmingham
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"....The presidential convoy is the most public revelation of a president’s sense of his/her power, state of mind, and insecurities. There was the Xi Jinping Standard: At home, Jinping’s convoy is on average 10 cars.
Now the world’s second-largest economy, and Africa’s all-season
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PHOTOS: US President Joe Biden is helped up after falling during the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy, just north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, on June 1, 2023.
Biden is the oldest person ever in the presidency and is seeking a second
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VIDEO: Manchester United's Andre Onana may never forget Uganda.
Onana departs Namboole after Zimbabwe Vs Cameroon.
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@DavidAjuna1
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National netball team She Cranes have finished 5th at the 2023 Netball World Cup in South Africa, becoming Africa's number 1.
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QUOTE: “One of the things they’re (donors) threatening is to kill our 1.2 million people who have been surviving on Pepfar funds to buy drugs for HIV/Aids, so that we don’t buy the drugs for our people and they die. This is a simple matter which we can fight but parasites can’t
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“There are people in this Parliament who claim to love President Museveni more than Dr.Kizza Besigye who treated him when they were fighting in Luweero. Even if you are one of them, you cannot justify the President keeping 266 vehicles at his residence (State House) & 400
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MP Ssemujju Nganda: When I look at Hon Rukia Nakadama and Hon Judith Nabakooba, they are beneficiaries [of Karamoja iron sheets]. I still think they are suspects, maybe their charges have been withdrawn. Can Parliament be briefed, who is still a suspect, who do we congratulate
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PHOTOS: NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as
@HEBobiwine
, graduates today with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Cavendish University in Kampala.
#MonitorUpdates
📸:
@NUP_Ug
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UPDATE: NTV Uganda and KFM Radio host Faiza Fabz, and 3 others -detained over the March to Parliament protests- have been remanded to Luzira Prison until July 30, 2024.
They have been charged for being a "common nuisance, idle and disorderly."
#MonitorUpdates
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🤔And so, we ask: What would happen if the Museveni of 1986 met the President Museveni of 2024?
#MonitorQuery
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🤔What should the Namboole Stadium management improve immediately to make your matchday experience better?
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Uneb: One candidate wrote on page 2: Dear Mr examiner, you are still wasting time on me when there are more serious candidates? I'm the stone that the builder refused. Another candidate decided to copy and rewrite questions.
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JUST IN: "We don't want your pro-gay money. We want and love our country more than money," over 100 students from at least 13 universities across Uganda sing as they approach Parliament in a peaceul March "to thank the House and President Museveni for signing the
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PHOTOS: Detained NTV Uganda and KFM Radio presenter Faiza Fabz, and 3 others gesture as they are led to a police vehicle, after they were remanded to Luzira Prison until July 30, 2024.
The four accused were charged with being a "common nuisance, idle and disorderly," following
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JUST IN: President
@KagutaMuseveni
has assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
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BREAKING: Joshua Cheptegei wins the men's 5,000m Olympics gold.
#MonitorSport
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"I want to inform everybody, starting with Ugandans, that Uganda will develop with or without loans," President Museveni tells the World Bank which has suspended offering new loans to Uganda demanding that the anti-gay law is struck down.
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Wednesday edition of Daily Monitor...
Be sure to acquaint yourself with the latest news all-round. The e-paper is also accessible via
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JUST IN: The U.S State Department has blocked Speaker of Parliament Anita Among, Minister of State for Finance Amos Lugolobi, former Minister of Karamoja Affairs Mary Goretti Kitutu, former Minister of State for Karamoja Affairs Agnes Nandutu and former Deputy Chief of Defence
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JUST IN: About 150 students of Nakanyonyi Senior Secondary School in Nagalama, Mukono District have been evacuated to hospital over suspected food poisoning. Samples of the food they ate have been taken to Government Analytical Laboratory in Kampala for testing as investigations
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PHOTO: Uganda's long-distance athlete Joshua Cheptegei becomes the 4th man in history to win 3 straight 10, 000m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
He ran Sunday's race in 27:51.42 to get Uganda’s 1st medal at this year's championships.
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A police dog traced suspected thieves who broke into the Kaliro District MTN service centre to a police station reception.
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@HEBobiwine
: "Throughout my tour of Western Uganda, I was given a spear and shield. But here (in Mayuge) you have given me an oar to propell a boat.
But when I return, I'll be handing over the lake to you and my first directive (as President) will be to order all soldiers to
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BREAKING: Peruth Chemutai earns Uganda first gold medal in
#Olympics
2020 after winning the women's 3000m steeplechase final August 4, 2021
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@NUP_Ug
president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi's gateman and gardener, Sharif Higenyi, is among 1,862 graduands at the Kampala International University's 28th graduation ceremony today. Higenyi is graduating with a diploma in Public Administration.
"A security guard by night, gardener
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WATCH: Ugandan Manchester United fans who attended Cameroon Vs Zimbabwe Afcon qualifier at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole react during the match on September 10, 2024 in show of support for the Cameroonian Manchester United goalkeeper, André Onana.
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"The public has every reason to be angry with all of us but the solution is not getting rid of Among. In a Parliament where MPs connive to share Shs 170 billion meant for closed cooperatives and another group share iron sheets meant for poor people in Karamoja, a service award
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@NUP_Ug
president, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias
@HEBobiwine
takes a boda boda ride after planting a banana stem in Katwe, Rubaga Division, Kampala District in protest of the sorry state of the roads across the country.
This was after Mr Kyagulanyi escaped from his home in
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@KagutaMuseveni
: I want congratulate our Ugandan [religious] leaders for rejecting homosexuality. These Europeans have a problem, they want to turn abnormal to normal and force it on others. We shouldn't normalise homosexuality.
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#JananiLuwumDay
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UPDATE: Renowned businessman, Apollo Nyegamehe, popularly known as Aponye died Thursday evening after the car in which he was travelling rammed into a stationary lorry along Mbarara-Kabale highway in Ntungamo District. His driver and two other occupants were rushed to Itojo
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A traffic officer intercepts a car without license plate at Aga Khan Primary School on July 12, 2023.
On interrogation, the driver (a lady) reportedly told the officer that the car is one of the many owned by her husband before she drove off.
“I have seen it many times. It always
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UPDATE: Apologize or leave Uganda, Gen Muhoozi tells US ambassador in escalating row
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@NUP_Ug
supporters swim through a swamp in Mayuge after security operatives blocked the road in attempt to stop them from joining
@HEBobiwine
’s procession
📸
@abubakerlubowa
#MonitorUpdates
#UGDecides2021
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PHOTOS: Opposition NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine at Nsambya Hospital on September 4 after he was injured by a suspected teargas canister during clashes with Ugandan security officers in Wakiso District on Tuesday (Sept 3, 2024).
@HEBobiwine
tells Monitor
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QUOTE: "Ugandans would have to be taught how to fight against dictatorship. Don't fear anything. Idi Amin used to say he feared nobody but God; but where is he today?" - Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at a rally in Bushenyi (Uganda Times July 9,1980).
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UPDATE: "This is our 1986 moment."
Anti-graft protestors are back on Kampala streets, hoping to March to Parliament on July 25, 2024, demanding Parliament and President Museveni's government to act against corruption.
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📸Busein Samir
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📸 Traffic officers guide motorists at Nkumba University traffic lights along the Entebbe - Kampala expressway after the driver of a cement mixer truck UAN 836D lost control and rammed into the barriers in the middle of the road before falling onto a Mitsubishi RVR UBQ 371P on
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"Through my businesses, I employ over 400 people but even when I buy a watch, people think I have used taxpayers' money. So, if I can look after 400 families, why wouldn't I afford to buy myself something good and look nice? Some Ugandans want you to apologise for being happy,
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🤔FUFA has unveiled a new jersey for the Uganda Cranes. Your thoughts?
#MonitorQuery
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BREAKING: First son
@mkainerugaba
has been promoted to full General and dropped as Commander UPDF Land Forces,
@tbutagira
reports.
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UPDATE: Police officers are on Kampala Road encouraging traders to open their shops and abandon the strike. On July 31, most traders in the city centre closed their shops after a much anticipated meeting with President Museveni to handle their grievances flopped.
The police are
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Museveni: I don’t eat rice because I am not an Indian. I don’t eat bread because I am not European. I am indigenous. I saw Monitor laughing at me that how can you talk about eating cassava…But this Monitor...Monitor...Monitor...God is there.
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PHOTOS: Monitor cameras capture the arrest of female activist Nana MwaAfrica during the ongoing anti-graft March to Parliament protest in Kampala on July 25, 2024.
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@kakumirizi2002
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QUOTE: "I don’t think there is any other continent that prays more than the African continent. Prayers must be met with action..... You can't close your eyes and pray for your problems to be solved by God. God gives you the mean to face & solve your challenges"- Paul Kagame
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“We shouldn’t be fighting over such issues, we ought to respect each other because our common enemy is President Museveni. I am using one hand to fight the dictator and the other to fight my brothers within our party who keep tackling me down to frustrate my fight against the
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👀First wake up and read today's Daily Monitor that's also here on e-paper at:
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QUOTE: “I have been peeping through my car window as I travelled here for this function and I have kept wondering to myself how do these people (in Busoga sub region) live through this sort of poverty? I have screened through all these villages where I have passed but the houses
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"The doctors said he had water in his lungs. They have been sucking it out. However, today his health condition deteriorated and when they tried to suck the fluid out, it was blood”
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“You can’t criminalize an entire media house because of one person promoting homosexuality. If it was like that, we would have closed the whole of NRM following the iron sheets scandal,” MP Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda.
#MonitorUpdates
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“My suspension emanated from my criticism of the Speaker’s expenditures and the affairs of
@Parliament_Ug
. How can a local radio station be allocated billions of shillings when
@ubctvuganda
, a national television, is struggling financially? I would rather lose a job than bend low
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@KagutaMuseveni
: There’s a paper called Monitor, it’s full of foreign agents. We are analysing them, I have sent people to monitor them, now we know whom they are working for. This is where the anti-NRM agents base themselves [in the Monitor] with their headlines depicting a bad
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QUOTE: "The 186 MPs who appended signatures [on a motion to censure backbench commissioners] represent constituencies and each one of us has a minimum of 25,000 eligible voters. That is an equivalent of 4.6million voters in this country, who can determine the vote of the
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"This deployment is unnecessary because Parliament is a place where every Ugandan can turn to for redress. The more the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Commissioners, and MPs continue to bury their heads in the sand and try to cover those very serious allegations in this House, the more
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WATCH: What embattled president of the Uganda Netball Federation (UNF) Sarah Babirye Kityo said after her release on bail on December 1, 2023.
#MonitorUpdates
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PHOTOS: A truck carrying gravel has sunk four of its rear tyres into a pothole on Eighth Street, Industrial Area, Kampala, disrupting traffic flow. Traffic officers are at the scene guiding motorists as they plan to free it.
#MonitorUpdates
#KampalaPotholeExhibition
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"Where somebody has got your child into homosexuality, life imprisonment is not adequate since the person can go into prison & continue with life or maybe even homosexuality. The amendment I'm proposing is that these people should be castrated," MP Sarah Opendi
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According to eyewitnesses, the UPDF soldier (bodyguard) who shot Charles Okello Engola, was not hostile to civilians as he made his way from the Minister's home in Kyanja to a nearby salon, where he ended his own life. They say that he only asked them to get out of his way.
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JUST IN: The driver of a coaster has lost control and rammed into other cars at the traffic lights near Nkumba University on Kampala-Entebbe expressway, barely two days after the driver of a cement mixer truck lost control and hit a road barrier before it fell on a saloon car,
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QUOTE:"When I return home, my wife usually asks 'why do you seem tired?' What she doesn't know is that debating with
@NRMOnline
MPs is more tiring than carrying 100kg bag on your shoulders," Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemuju Nganda
#MonitorUpdates
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Shs5 million to start a business or Shs500,000 monthly salary?
#MonitorQuery
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BREAKING NEWS: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei strikes his first ever men's 10,000m Olympic gold
#MonitorUpdates
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UPDATE: Uganda starts its 2023 Netball World Cup campaign beating Singapore 79-37 in South Africa
*Final score:
🇺🇬She Cranes 79-37 Singapore🇸🇬
#MonitorSport
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PHOTOS: Passenger service vehicles and other saloon cars laden with sacks of grasshoppers (Nsenene) speeding towards Uganda's capital, Kampala along Mubende-Fort Portal Road on November 22, 2023.
According to one of the drivers, the insects which were previously a reserve of
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@HEBobiwine
: "I am not here (in Mayuge) to campaign and ask for votes because you already voted for us. I'm actually talking to you in my capacity as your president."
#MonitorUpdates
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UPDATE: US removes Uganda from Agoa trade deal
Details⬇️
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🚨BREAKING: Uganda's Victor Kiplangat strikes gold at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The 23-year-old long distance athlete won the marathon in 2:08:53 on Sunday.
#MonitorUpdates
📸AFP
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QUOTE: “When leaders become misleaders and mentors become tormentors, when freedom of expression becomes a target of suppression, opposition becomes our position"-
@HEBobiwine
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Rwanda has imposed a curfew on all "non-essential services" to reduce what the government calls "noise pollution", a move that has angered nightclub owners.
#MonitorUpdates
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VIDEO: Some of
@NUP_Ug
presidential candidate,
@HEBobiwine
's supporters wade through a swamp to circumvent a security checkpoint deployed to block them from accessing his campaign rally in Rukiga District on December 16, 2020
📹 DAVID LUBOWA
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National Unity Platform has opened a Leadership School aimed to equip young people from marginalized areas with essential leadership skills
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JUST IN: Anti-graft protests have broken out again in parts of Kampala as Gen Zs seek to March to Parliament.
Security officers have already started rounding up demonstrators who are insisting that "Parliament Speaker Anita Among must resign."
#MonitorUpdates
📹Busein Samir
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QUOTE: "We shall never see the Uganda we want until we develop a central nervous system that enables us to feel each other's pain" - lawyer David F.K. Mpanga.
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QUOTE: I’m aware of evil plans aimed at me. Well, I’ve made my humble contribution. I hope this country [Uganda] traces its soul. I hope a time comes when we ask ourselves: Is this the best we can be? I leave now, but: Silence all alarm birds, snakes will come in silence... It
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JUST IN: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania will jointly host the 2027 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) under the Pamoja project, CAF has announced.
●Morocco will stage the 2025 edition.
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“Usually at death, people will give flowery speeches, even those that will have made your life difficult. In fact, I've learned a lesson from Hon Oulanyah’s death, I will draw a list of those who will come near my body to speak,” ~ MP Ssemujju Nganda
#MonitorUpdates
#RIPOulanyah
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UPDATE: Protestors sing Ugandan anthem for a "corruption free Uganda," during a July 23, 2024 March to Parliament demo in Kampala.
#MonitorUpdates
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@kakumirizi2002
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WATCH: Human rights lawyer, Mr Eriah Nuwenuwe arrested at
@Parliament_Ug
as he tried to take part in the peaceful
#March2Parliament
anti-graft protest on July 23, 2024.
#MonitorUpdates
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@MuyoboKarim
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Woman abandons ‘Kakwenza’s twins’ at police, demands child support -
@JacobsOSeaman
writes
#MonitorUpdates
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🤔In your own words, how would you describe this August 6, 2024 effort by Uganda Cranes and Kitara FC forward Denis Omedi?
#MonitorQuery
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PHOTOS: Buhweju County MP, Francis Mwijukye, plants a banana stem on Mukalazi road in Bukoto, Kampala, on January 18, 2023, in protest of the poor state or roads in the city. A number Opposition leaders including Dr Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi, and Erias Lukwago among
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Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Uganda, the United Kingdom (UK) has warned.
#MonitorUpdates
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