Daily Monitor
Sunday May 09 2021
Some youth prepare to leave Entebbe airport for employment in Dubai, UAE on October 22, 2019. Photo/Abubaker Lubowa
Summary
President Museveni promised a lot in
kisanja hakuna mchezo and is making even firmer promises as he prepares to swear in for another term. We attempt a quick stocktaking of his previous five terms in office. I have never seen South Koreans exporting labour. The only South Korean I have seen (exported) is (former United Nations secretary-general) Ban Ki-moon. Their country is half the size of Uganda but you don’t see them (exported). I am now for the South Korean approach” President Museveni.
Daily Monitor
Monday May 03 2021
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The disease and lockdown have starved the market of animals.
Traders have predicted that the prices will more than double in the coming months due to shortage of livestock, as consumers find solace in the once luxurious poultry meat.
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Meat, a delicacy for most Ugandans, is becoming unaffordable, due to its soaring prices, Daily Monitor has established.
Traders have predicted that the prices will more than double in the coming months due to shortage of livestock, as consumers find solace in the once luxurious poultry meat.
The cattle shortage has pushed beef prices from Shs10,000 to Shs16,000 per kilogramme in several districts, including Tororo, Masaka, Arua, Kasese, Masindi, and Gulu.
Daily Monitor
Friday April 23 2021
A family that was displaced off Lusanja land in October 2018 sets up a temporal shelter. PHOTO /Abubaker Lubowa
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President Museveni has promised to dismantle “the old and barbaric land laws” that for long have hard-pressed Ugandans through rampant illegal evictions.
Without disclosing the specifics of the planned constitutional amendments to the Land Act, the President, with the support of NRM MPs-elect, undertook to implement the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire report on land matters in order to cure both current and historical land injustices in the country. He cited the Mailo Land tenure that the British colonialists handed to Buganda chiefs and their collaborators.
Daily Monitor
Monday April 19 2021
Our view:
There is urgent need to sensitise men about the importance of supporting their pregnant wives in all ways possible.
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Kiyoni Health Centre III in Kyankwanzi District has prioritised attending to spouses, who show up at the facility, as a way of encouraging husbands to escort their expectant wives for antenatal healthcare visits.
It is reported that those who do not come with their partners are attended to last even if they came in early.
In our story of April 16 titled, “Hospital prioritises couples for antenatal care services”, the officer-in-charge of the facility, Ms Justine Nakigudde, said the reason they require both spouses present during antenatal care is because they sometimes carryout tests such as HIV/Aids, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases that may affect the baby if both parents are not treated.
Poverty bites as locals in oil fields wait for pay-out
Monday April 19 2021
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As government continues to prospect and explore oil wells in parts of western, central and northern regions, scores of homesteads that have been displaced by the quest to have oil exports ready by 2025 have lost farmlands.
In Kakumiro District in western Uganda, more than 200 people affected by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have cited delayed compensation of their properties in the wake of signing of the tripartite pipeline between oil companies and Uganda and Tanzania governments.
Daily Monitor has established that the affected persons are mainly from Mpasana, Kisiita, Katikara, and Ntoroko sub-counties in Kakumiro.