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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. Over the last decade, as Uganda's political opposition has gained strength, the Monitor has aligned itself more with the agenda of the opposition to counter the perceived ...
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.
The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, celebrated their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as "50 Golden Years", in 2010. [citation needed] As of 2016 NMG owned a 76.5% stake in the Monitor Publications Limited and 93.3 KFM, a Kampala-based radio
When Amin was deposed in 1979, the second Obote government named its paper Uganda Times. When the National Resistance Movement seized power in 1986, the name of the daily newspaper was changed to New Vision. The Uganda Argus and its successors always presented as the "official" newspaper of the government in power. Vision Group
Mike Mukula. George Michael Mukula, commonly known as Mike Mukula, is a Ugandan businessman, politician and a professional pilot. He represented Soroti Municipality from 1996 to 2016 in the parliament of Uganda. He owns a conglomerate of 28 companies under the Mukula Group of Companies. [1] He is a member of the ruling National Resistance ...
The Uganda People's Defence Force ( UPDF ), previously known as the National Resistance Army, is the armed forces of Uganda. From 2007 to 2011, the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated the UPDF had a total strength of 40,000–45,000, consisting of land forces and an air wing. [6] Recruitment to the forces is done annually.
The power station is located on the Victoria Nile, at the former location of the Karuma Falls. This location is approximately 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) upstream of where the Masindi - Gulu Highway crosses the Nile. By road, it is approximately 99 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Masindi [7] and 75 kilometres (47 mi) south of Gulu. [8]
As of June 2020, the number of mobile telephone customers were estimated at 25.5 million, as reported by the Daily Monitor newspaper. That figure had increased to 26.5 million at the end of September 2020. As of 31 March 2017, Uganda had the 18th highest Internet usage rate in Africa (out of 58 countries).