We have noted the rise of youth groups acting as vigilantes and political foot soldiers, particularly in the central region" ...

Security forces in Uganda arrested over 300 supporters of opposition leader Bobi Wine during ongoing election campaigns. Wine ...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reiterated that the foundation of Uganda's long-term political stability lies in improving household incomes, not in political competition.

On the morning of December 1, 2025, a convoy of police trucks wound through the streets of Mbarara, ferrying what appeared to be a sea of supporters toward La Rooftop Lounge. From there, they were set ...

Too much of anything is bad” is a common saying we have all grown up reciting right through school to our day-to-day living.

Civil society groups have warned that Uganda’s democracy is under threat from the growing commercialisation of politics, calling for urgent reforms to regulate campaign financing ahead of the 2026 ...

As Uganda approaches the 40th anniversary of National Resistance Movement (NRM) rule, the country stands at a historic inflection point. Four decades in power is no ordinary milestone, it marks both ...

With an “insatiable curiosity about the world,” Zohran Mamdani walked into the Daily Monitor newsroom in Uganda in 2007 as a teenager with the hopes of becoming a “top reporter.” Mamdani’s father had ...