Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade. Charles Onyango-Obbo, a writer for Uganda's largest newspaper, offers his thoughts on why few Africans are taking note ...

Private security guards will soon have the power to arrest and search citizens suspected of committing offenses should new regulations be enacted by Parliament. A report by the Teachers Service ...

Nairobi — President Yoweri Museveni, who was widely expected to run for a third term if his push to amend the constitution and scrap the two-term limits succeeded, is now sending out mixed signals.

On July 26, 2024, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) inaugurated its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force. Although the task force included some IT experts and academics, it was widely ...

From cancelled Masses to silenced bishops’ letters, the State now polices the sanctuary as it once did the street. The images from Uganda in recent weeks suggest a State no longer merely contesting ...

Last week's elections to the supreme organ of Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Kampala descended into chaos. Punches flew, chairs became missiles, and party loyalists ended up in ...

Retired General Mugisha Muntu, candidate for the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) in the January 2026 election, is widely considered to have no chance of victory. It is, by popular reckoning ...

Pinned on a noticeboard behind my old desk when I became editor of the Daily Monitor was a column by Charles Onyango-Obbo (COO), the founding editor, about the role of the newspaper. A lot had ...