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  • November 26
  • Monitor Uganda: Town Clerk Accused of Disrespecting Council

    The Hoima Town Council speaker, Mr Jackson Amanya, has requested the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Walter Iriama to take disciplinary action against the acting town clerk for allegedly disrespecting the council.

  • Monitor Uganda: Sudanese Refugees Return to Arua

    Even after the civil war that ended in 2005, hundreds of Sudanese are resettling in Arua District despite the return of peace in their motherland, the deputy resident district commissioner has said.

  • Monitor Uganda: Govt Turns to Cyber to Fight Graft

    The government yesterday announced plans to post details of its contracts on the Internet and register service providers.

  • Monitor Uganda: Give Us Drugs, Kids Tell Govt

    Children yesterday appealed to the government to increase the provision and access to antiretroviral drugs in order to accelerate HIV/aids treatment.

  • Monitor Uganda: Nambooze Back Tuesday

    The Democratic Party spokesperson, who was taken ill to South Africa, is set to return home next Tuesday, the party president announced yesterday.

  • Monitor Uganda: Reinstate Graduated Tax, District Bosses Beg

    District leaders from the eastern region have asked the government to reinstate graduated tax.

  • Monitor Uganda: Time Up for Country's Water Thieves

    National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), has acquired equipment to detect illegal water connections that cost the institution about Shs25 billion water in losses a month, Daily Monitor has learnt.

  • Monitor Uganda: Kagina Calls for Tax Incentive Monitoring

    The Commissioner General Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has called for proper evaluation and management of tax incentives given to investors to ensure they are not misused.

  • Monitor Uganda: Telecom Companies in Rural Power Plan

    With unpredictable diesel supplies and high prices playing a major role, telecommunication companies are now turning to investing in power lines to extend electricity to their rural base stations, which they see as a cheaper power source compared to generators.

  • Monitor Uganda: Masindi Gets Shs1 Billion for Garbage Plant

    The African Development Bank and the government will fund the construction of a garbage recycling plant in Masindi District, Daily Monitor has learnt.

  • Monitor Uganda: Mao Takes Campaign to West

    Gulu District Chairman, Mr Norbert Mao, who is also aspiring for the Democratic Party (DP) presidency, has taken his campaign to western Uganda.

  • Monitor Uganda: Golfers Head to S. Africa

    Coach Amos Kamya will be hoping to enhance his credentials as a knowledgeable tactician when he leads the 4-man national amateur team to compete in the 72-hole International Teams Golf Championship in South Africa today.

  • Monitor Uganda: Bobby in Accident, Team Off Tomorrow

    Cranes coach Bobby Williamson was on Tuesday night involved in an accident on his way back to Sports View Hotel where the national team is camped.

  • Monitor Uganda: World Cup Trophy Tour Nears End

    The excitement and glamour associated with the World Cup trophy will soon come to an end. The trophy, on a 52 Africa-nation Coca-Cola-sponsored tour has already been to 43 destinations.

  • Monitor Uganda: It's Time an Iron Hand Came Down On Boda Bodas [opinion]

    For the past month, police have been playing cat-and-mouse games with boda boda cyclists over road safety requirements and this has drawn mixed reactions from the public. These cyclists are increasingly being detested by almost all road users ranging from motorists to pedestrians.

  • Monitor Uganda: Fufa Elections On

    Efforts by Kabale delegate Godfrey Kwizera to block Fufa's elective assembly slated for Saturday were rendered futile, following a decision by Kampala High Court Judge Vincent Zehurikize to dismiss his application.

  • Monitor Uganda: MAK to Honour Mkapa

    Ex Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa will tomorrow be awarded with a honorary doctorate degree at Makerere University. He becomes the tenth person to get the honour from Uganda's most prestigious university.

  • November 25
  • Af Conf Congo-Kinshasa: Explosive Report Threatens UN Authority in Region [analysis]

    The United Nations Security Council's tenuous authority in Africa has been further threatened by an explosive new report from a UN Group of Experts* showing wide-ranging violations of the arms embargo on Congo-Kinshasa by both Western and African states.

  • Monitor Uganda: Oil Prospects Excite Experts

    Uganda is in a pole position to become one of the top 50 oil-producing countries in the world in six years, according to experts.

  • UN News Sudan: Despite Progress, Challenges Remain on Child Soldiers, Says UN

    Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today.

  • Nation Kenya: Women's Effort to Fight Hunger Bearing Fruit in Daadab

    As Kenya contemplates a policy shift from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation, some women in North Eastern Province are ahead of the game: they have turned to rain water harvesting for food production and their efforts are bearing fruit.

  • IWPR Sudan: Land Rights Hinder Darfur IDP Returns

    Abdalla Adam, an IDP (internally displaced person) leader from Alryad camp in El Geneina, West Darfur, says that he desperately wants to return to his village, Mestarei, from which he was forced to leave in 2003, but cannot because others have occupied his land.

  • Citizen Tanzania: Heavy Rain Leaves Over 4,000 Homeless

    About 4,000 residents of Muleba District in Kagera Region, have been rendered homeless as a result of heavy rain that was accompanied with strong winds.

  • Monitor Uganda: Opposition Accuses Army of Rights Abuses

    The Forum for Democratic Change President, Dr Kizza Besigye has, in his first major press conference since returning from a 10-day tour of Karamoja, accused the Uganda People Defence Force of gross human rights abuses during the disarmament programme.

  • Monitor Uganda: Opposition Mounts Over Land Bill

    Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008.




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