Saudi Arabian man was killed on Tuesday by an elephant in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park. Ayman Sayed Elshahany was, together with his three colleagues, travelling from Masindi through the park to Arua when the incident happened. According to a statement by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), Mr Elshahany and his colleagues stopped along the way … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda’s coffee exports surged 28 per cent in December compared to the same month last year. The surge was boosted by higher yields from newly maturing coffee trees, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority said in a report. The east African country shipped 536,889 60-kg bags of coffee during the month, … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda announced Tuesday it was suspending mandatory Covid testing at the border with Kenya after the measure caused huge truck queues, disrupting fuel supplies across the country. The crisis has led to panic-buying and skyrocketing prices at the petrol pump, with one minister warning traders not to take advantage of the … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda has protested Kenya Railways Corporation’s (KRC) decision to offload 40 containers destined for Kampala at the Kenyan side of the Malaba border crossing in total disregard for transit railway cargo operation norms. Kenya this week started trial runs for express freight train service from the port of Mombasa to Malaba … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda is set to destroy over 400,000 doses of expired Covid-19 vaccines at a time when less than half of the targeted 22 million people have been vaccinated. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said the vaccines had been supplied to the northern part of Uganda, but were not used. The expired … Read more
By Theodore Jones – Armed groups have killed seven civilians and three members of the security forces in eastern DR Congo, where a clinic was set ablaze, local sources said on Thursday. Two soldiers at Butembo, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Beni in North Kivu province, were killed by “Mai-mai militiamen,” said Colonel Donat … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has ordered his supporters to wear the red beret, resurrecting the battle between the army and his camp on the dress code nearly a year later. “As the leaders of NUP, we shall resume the wearing of the red … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda is set to immunise about eight million children below the age of five during the polio vaccination campaign which kicks off today. While speaking to DAILY MONITOR after flagging off the immunisation equipment at Kololo airstrip, the Minister for Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, said the exercise would be conducted door-to-door … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan writer and critic of long-ruling leader Yoweri Museveni has been charged with communications offences related to tweets critical of the president and his son, the charge sheet showed on Tuesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been in detention by the military since Dec. 28 when armed men broke into his house and … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda ended the world’s longest school closure on Monday, ordering millions of students back to the classroom nearly two years after learning was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some 15 million pupils have not attended school in Uganda since March 2020 when classrooms were shuttered as Covid-19 swept the world. … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday received his Covid-19 booster shot as the country recorded a surge in coronavirus cases. The president, who is fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca, said he was advised by his doctors to get a booster dose of Pfizer to enhance his immunity against the virus that has … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Lawyer of Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has said his client was tortured while in a week-long detention to an extent that he is urinating blood. Mr Eron Kiiza said Mr Rukirabashaija’s legs are swollen and his clothes are blood stained. “A search is ongoing at Mr Rukirabashaija’s home in Iganga. He … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Prsominent Ugandan novelist and government critic Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, has been arrested in Kampala, his lawyer said Wednesday, prompting calls by rights activists for his release. “Armed men claiming to be from the Uganda Police Force” broke into Kakwenza Rukirabashaija’s home on Tuesday, his lawyer Eron Kiiza said, adding that he had … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan police on Monday announced that there will be no fireworks allowed to usher in the New Year over the weekend. Fred Enanga, police spokesperson told reporters here that for the second year running, fireworks are canceled due to the uncertainties caused by COVID-19. Enanga said the public is urged to … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan police in Kassanda District have started investigating the murder of Emmanuel Deus, a cashier at GEM James Gold Processing Company. On Saturday, Deus was allegedly beaten to death by a group of six Tanzanian nationals in Bukuya Town Council, Kassanda District. According to police, the victim met a group of … Read more
China on Tuesday donated relief food worth 2 million U.S. dollars to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to help feed school children in the semi-arid northeastern Uganda also known as Karamoja. Zhang Lizhong, Chinese ambassador to Uganda, said at a handover ceremony that China is committed to supporting Uganda’s future workforce because without the … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan military has urged the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) holed up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to surrender under the amnesty law, adding they would not be charged for the offenses committed. “We encourage others who wish to surrender to Uganda especially the Ugandans, to do so because … Read more
Democratic Republic of Congo’s President, Felix Tshisekedi, said he would ensure that Ugandan troops’ presence in Congo, where they are fighting an Islamist militant group alongside Congolese forces, is for a limited period. Uganda and Congo launched a joint operation against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group allied with Islamic State, but have … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan military bolstered supply routes into the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, where the army has established an advance base to chase down Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels implicated for fatal attacks in Kampala. In the settlement of Mukakati, just before the entrance to Virunga Park in the DRC’s east, … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – In a bid to step up its campaign against armed conflict, Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has issued a two-month amnesty for those in possession of illegal firearms and small arms. The Uganda National Focal Point on Small Arms and Light Weapons launched the 2021 Africa Amnesty Project on November 24 … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda has moved more troops and equipment into eastern DR Congo, including armoured vehicles, witnesses at the border claimed, on the third day of an operation against the Allied Democratic Forces ADF rebel group. “At around 4 p.m., we saw another Ugandan army column cross,” said Tony Kitambala, a freelance journalist … Read more
By Mbafan Ade – Twitter announced on Thursday, that it has deactivated over 3,500 accounts in six countries, including Uganda, China, and Russia, for spreading pro-government misinformation. In a statement, Twitter said that the vast majority of the accounts were part of a network that “amplified Chinese Communist Party narratives relating to the oppression of … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda and its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), commenced a coordinated aerial assault against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on Tuesday, a terror group blamed for atrocities in both Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aircraft attack, according to both countries’ spokespeople, will target the group’s … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Ugandan police killed five suspects and arrested 21 others on Thursday as part of an investigation into twin suicide blasts claimed by the Islamic State that killed four people, according to an official. The blasts on Tuesday were the latest in a series of strikes in the East African country, which … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Malaria cases in Uganda dropped by 8.7 per cent in the financial year 2020/21, a report indicated on Thursday. The annual report, issued by the ministry of health last Wednesday, said malaria cases dropped to about 13.6 million in 2020/21 from 14.9 million in 2019/20. The deadly disease remained the leading … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Regional leaders have condemned the terror attacks in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, while promising to work together to combat the scourge. Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, condemned the event, which left three people dead and more than 30 injured, and pledged the continental body’s cooperation in protecting the … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Twin explosions were heard on Tuesday morning in the Ugandan capital Kampala, according to local media report. Local newspaper, Daily Monitor, said that two explosions were reported respectively near the parliamentary building and opposite the central police station in Kampala. Local television stations telecast live pictures of cars burning and ambulances … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Uganda’s Ministry of Health has collected 1,904,140 doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the Canadian government. “This first transfer of Canadian-funded vaccines to Uganda is a watershed moment and a tangible symbol of global solidarity in action,” said Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda’s Minister of Health, in an interview with … Read more
By Jacob Kubeka – Thousands of Congolese citizens who fled to Uganda for protection on Monday have begun to return home after learning that the delicate security situation had “somewhat normalized.” Some of the refugees observed crossing back into Uganda on Tuesday morning at Bunagana informed a Daily Monitor reporter that they had not eaten … Read more
By Kwanta Douglas – Gunmen captured at least two towns along the Uganda-Rwanda border in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Monday, according to a local authority and an activist group. The assistant to the administrator of Rutshuru territory, Lt.-Col. Muhindo Luanzo, blamed rebels from the M23, a rebel organization that took huge swaths … Read more