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There are a number of newspapers in Uganda today. New Vision is Uganda's leading English daily newspaper. It is a state-owned newspaper and has the largest nationwide circulation. The Daily Monitor is an independent English-language newspaper and second in circulation to the New Vision. The two papers dominate the print section of media in Uganda.
The Daily Monitor is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. Its name is shared by the Saturday Monitor and Sunday Monitor, which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited. [3] Daily Monitor averaged a daily circulation of 24,230 newspapers in September 2011. [4] By the fourth quarter of 2019, that figure had dropped to 16,169 copies daily.
Events. Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. January to June. 7 January Opposition leader Bobi Wine calls on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and other senior government officials for human rights abuses leading up to the 2021 Ugandan general election.
On June 1, 2024, the grand opening of Hamz Stadium in Kampala, Uganda, heralded a new dawn for sports and entertainment in the region. The event kicked off at 7:00 PM with a spectacular 10-minute fireworks display that lit up the Kampala skyline, creating an electrifying atmosphere.
In 2014, Uganda celebrated 50 years since the Uganda Martyrs were canonized and elevated to sainthood by Pope Paul VI on 18 October 1964. The Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine is a thanksgiving monument for their canonization. Official groundbreaking was on 3 May 2015 by the Papal Nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Michael A. Blume, and Cardinal Emmanuel ...
At the age of 18, he joined the Crusader, a tri-weekly in Uganda. When it closed a year later, he started working at the Daily Monitor as a reporter, assistant radio news manager, deputy sports editor, associate editor, foreign news editor, news editor, investigations editor, and managing editor. He is a winner of the Chevening Scholarship ...
From 2000 until 2001, he taught journalism at the Islamic University in Uganda. In 2004, he left the Daily Monitor to join The Observer, both as a reporter and as a shareholder. He was assigned the role of political editor at the Weekly Observer, serving in that role until 2011. In 2009, he was assigned additional duties as the editor ...
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is an Islamic extremist terrorist group originated in Uganda but is based in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group's insurgency began in 1996; it kills hundreds of civilians every year, mainly by attacking villages. The most deadly ADF attack in Uganda was on 8 June, 1998, when the group ...