By Joseph Were U.S. Secretary of State keeps his distance on African tour despite Uganda’s role in South Sudan As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set off for his five-nation tour of Africa on May 1, the expectation was that the conflict in South Sudan would dominate. It did …
Read More »Bitter truths about Ugandan doctors, nurses
By Ronald Musoke World Bank responds to ‘incompetent Ugandan doctors’ report On March 21, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council disputed a World Bank survey report which measured the competence of Uganda’s health service providers. The Service Delivery Indicators report had noted that “doctors in Uganda performed at about …
Read More »Football versus freedom
By Naomi Wolf When Coca-Cola, backed by the military, sets national policy, a darker page in the fight for freedom has been turned Last year, Brazilian authorities were taken by surprise when a wave of protests erupted during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament, a sort of warm-up to this year’s …
Read More »Under attack in South Sudan, Kony’s toilet armories, a journalist’s tears
By Patrick Kamara In our last episode, I described how in the early 2000s my then-editor at The Monitor newspaper, Ogen Kevin Aliro and his friend, then-Commander of the UPDF, Gen. James Kazini, flew me to cover the fight against Joseph kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in South Sudan. I …
Read More »Sitting is the new danger
By Agencies Get up! Study says sedentary time means less ability in everyday life It’s not enough for people to get regular moderate exercise as they age. Researchers say it’s also important not to spend the rest your time sitting too much. In fact, for every hour of sedentary behavior, …
Read More »What President Museveni should do next
By Kaggwa- Kavuma It is known that to develop a country you must economically empower the indigenous people It is generally accepted that each generation of people impacts society by it does and that the future depends on what each generation does in the present. I have full confidence in …
Read More »On Lincoln, Museveni, slavery, and gays
By Joseph Bossa A public letter to Andrew Mwenda Dear Mwenda, Museveni ain’t no Lincoln. I can no longer restrain myself and let pass without answer your opinion piece in The Independent of March 07-13, 2014 (Issue No 307) under the heading ‘’Museveni and Lincoln.’’ I first got acquainted with …
Read More »Emma Kato plays Justice Ssebutinde, Gen. Kazini takes me to South Sudan
By Patrick Kamara When I quit Voice of Tooro FM radio, I joined then-Monitor FM. Soon I became close to the then-Managing Editor of the Daily Monitor newspaper, the late Ogen Kevin Aliro. Kevin was a founding member of the Monitor Publications Ltd that had started operating in a rented …
Read More »Experimental drug offers promise in fight against measles
By Jean-Louis Santini An experimental antiviral drug taken orally could help contribute to the eradication of measles, an infection responsible for thousands of deaths per year, scientists have said in a report. The drug, so far tested on animals, has been effective on a virus closely related to the one …
Read More »Ebola virus circulating in Guinea is new strain: study
By Agencies The virus that has caused a deadly Ebola epidemic in Guinea is a new strain that emerged locally, possibly transmitted by fruit bats, virologists have said. The outbreak is the first to be recorded in West Africa, but researchers said the virus causing it did not come from …
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