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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.
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.
Andrew Mwenda (born 1972) is a Ugandan print, radio and television journalist, and the founder and owner of The Independent, a current affairs newsmagazine. He was previously the political editor of The Daily Monitor, a Ugandan tabloid, and was the presenter of Andrew Mwenda Live on KFM Radio in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. [1]
100,000–500,000 killed. The Ugandan Bush War was a civil war fought in Uganda by the official Ugandan government and its armed wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), against a number of rebel groups, most importantly the National Resistance Army (NRA), from 1980 to 1986. The unpopular President Milton Obote was overthrown in a coup ...
David Kato. David Kato Kisule ( c. 1964 – 26 January 2011) [2] was a Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement [3] and described as "Uganda's first openly gay man". [4] He served as advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).
The Uganda Martyrs are a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity in the historical kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. [2] [3] They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda.
General elections were held in Uganda on 14 January 2021 to elect the President and the Parliament. The Electoral Commission announced Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, the incumbent ruling since 1986, as the winner with 58.64% of the votes although the U.S. State Department qualified the electoral process as "fundamentally flawed" and Africa Elections Watch said they observed irregularities.
Nkumba University ( MA) Robinah Nabbanja (born 17 December 1969) is a Ugandan educator and politician who serves as the Prime Minister of Uganda, having been nominated to the office on 8 June 2021. She was formally confirmed by the Parliament on 21 June 2021. [1] She replaced Ruhakana Rugunda, who was named to the post of Envoy For Special ...