[Monitor] By Damali Mukhaye

[Monitor] Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the METU bus industries have reportedly finalized plans for the company to assemble and manufacture buses to ease transport needs in the greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA).

[Monitor] President Museveni has deferred the signing of the National Social Security Fund Amendment Bill, 2019 due to conflicting information from the Fund and the workers' representatives.

[Monitor] The government has described as "absurd and regrettable" global reports that Rwanda eavesdropped on the telephone communications of top Ugandan security and political officials.

[Monitor] The World Bank, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has provided Shs1.2 billion to help five farmer groups in Tororo District set up value-addition facilities for cassava, maize and rice.

[Monitor] The government is set to reclaim land belonging to the Agriculture ministry, which has been allegedly grabbed in different parts of the country.

[Monitor] By Arthur Arnold Wadero

[Monitor] As Uganda gets ready for the first oil production projected for 2025, several activities such as construction of the East African crude oil pipeline, central processing facilities, oil refinery and oil roads have started gaining momentum in...

[Monitor] The Danish government has extended Shs5b support to Uganda towards the implementation of Covid-19 resurgence plan.

[Monitor] Shilla Omuriwe is no stranger to coaching men's teams but her new role as head coach of the Volleyball Cranes is a whole new challenge.

[Monitor] The United Nations incoming Resident Coordinator to Uganda, Ms Susan Ngongi Namondo, has urged government to support innovations and other creative activities as a major initiative to resuscitate the country's the economy and cushion the ci...

[Monitor] Government has started remitting Shs200 million to each of the 529 legislators and the 26 ex-officio members of the 11th Parliament, to enable them buy cars. The cash is part of the string of entitlements that legislators are entitled to th...

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Ten suspected leaders of different criminal gangs in Kampala have been arrested by the police in separate operations.

[Observer] Sustainable land management and climate-smart agriculture could propel Uganda to achieve sustainable green-growth, but only if the Ugandan government invests aggressively in it, a World Bank report says.

[Observer] Teachers are at it again! In their latest brush with the law, teachers have been accused by authorities at national examination body, Uneb, of orchestrating a grand scheme in schools that pushes pupils to cheat on the just-released 2020 pr...

[Observer] Perhaps one of the most widely-shared stories in the recent history of The Observer newspaper - especially in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic - is the story of David Ssenfuka, the herbalist who treats and actually cures cancer and diabe...

[Observer] On June 16, Alice Kaboyo's appointment as minister of state in the Office of the Prime Minister for Luwero Triangle-Rwenzori Triangle was roundly rejected by majority of MPs on the appointments committee.

[Monitor] Vendors at Masaka Central Market will have to wait a little longer to occupy the new market after the contractor failed to complete the project within the set deadline.

[Monitor] The absence of electricity and food has delayed operationalisation of the Covid-19 isolation and treatment unit at Pachara Health Centre II in Pachara Sub-county, Adjumani District, Daily Monitor has learnt.

[Monitor] The Ministry of Water and Environment has started the construction of a Shs6.6b water and sanitation facility at Elegu border town in Amuru District.

[HRW] This submission, based primarily on research conducted by Human Rights Watch, highlights concerns about Uganda's compliance with its international human rights obligations since its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2016.

[Monitor] Factories in Buikwe District have donated hospital beds, relief food and Oxygen to the State Minister in the office of the Vice president who later handed over the items to the district task force in a bid to boost their efforts against Cov...

[Monitor] The Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje, has criticised government's decision to give the Shs100,000 Covid-19 relief cash to vulnerable Ugandans to survive in the 42-day lockdown that was imposed to curb the rising infections an...

[Monitor] By Franklin Draku

[Observer] When we attempt to get it right with social distancing and the lockdown rules, we get completely off the rails when it comes to purchasing vaccines.

[Observer] In a new report, "Chased Away and Left to Die," human rights organizations found that Uganda's national digital ID system, which is key to how individuals access their social rights, leads to mass exclusion.

[Observer] Betty Namusisi, 23, is a mother of four children living in Namayuba village, Wakiso district.

[Observer] With only seven medals won in the country's 65-year involvement with the Summer Olympics, it is fair to say Uganda has hardly set the world's biggest games alight, writes MARK NAMANYA.

[East African] Power utility firm Umeme faces a second straight year of declining revenues after Uganda's energy sector regulator announced on July 9 that end-user tariffs for electricity will reduce in the third quarter of this year -- a relief for ...

[East African] A Ugandan weightlifter has been found four days after he disappeared from an Olympic training camp in Japan leaving a note saying he wanted to find work, police said Tuesday.