Journalists covering the #KawempeNorthByElection are under attack—openly and without restraint. This blatant harassment threatens both press freedom and the credibility of the electoral process.

Kawempe North by-election: Tension as military arrests journalists, MPs monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

NMG journalists Lubowa Abubaker, Dennis Kabugo and Raymond Tamale Lwanga, who have been covering the #KawempeByElection, are missing. It is believed that they were arrested by security personel. NBS TV journalists Francis Isaano and Hakim Wampamba were also arrested. #NTVNews

We have taken the difficult decision to temporarily withdraw our Daily Monitor NTV UGANDA journalists from covering the Kawempe North by-election for their safely because they are being targeted and attacked by armed soldiers and undercover security operatives.

NMG journalists Abubaker Lubowa, Denis Kabugo, and Raymond Tamale have been released, limping and visibly injured. Some of their personal belongings were stolen or destroyed. #NTVNews

"The canes I got today were more than the canes I got in my primary." Raymond Tamale Lwanga, one of the NMG journalists, paints a picture of what went down before they were abducted during the Kawempe North by-elections. #NTVNews

NMG journalist Abubaker Lubowa recounts his arrest by security officers while covering the Kawempe North by-election. #NTVNews

Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI news.un.org/en/story/2025/… youtube.com/watch?v=nCavth…

Ndorobos of Bukwo: 25 years waiting for government's relocation promise youtu.be/o-PfKa2fT1U?si… via YouTube

UPDF Kills two terrorists in Munyonyo Kampala, Tuesday, 3 June 2025 A UPDF counter-terrorism unit this morning intercepted and neutralized two armed terrorists in Munyonyo, an upscale city suburb. It was an intelligence led operation, and the security services are on heightened

Damn, now I feel old. I remember I watched this movie 4 times in one day the first time I watched it in '93. Almost wore out the poor VHS tape with all the rewinding. The dinosaurs looked so real. Effects still hold up today.

Have you ever been in a situation where everyone seems to be bashing something and yet, try as you might, you fail to see the justification for all the hate and you retreat because now you feel you are the one that is not discerning or classy enough to fit in with the cool kids?

What a DNA Test Revealed About My Identity as a Ugandan — and a Human youtu.be/OZcjioToTf0?si… via YouTube

Samuel Baker extolling the virtues of local potent gin in Bunyoro in 1864. From "A History of Bunyoro-Kitara" by A.R. Dunbar (1965)

Written by Charles Onyango-Obbo in 2007. 19 years later, NMG (Daily Monitor, NTV UGANDA, SPARK TV, 933 KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, The EastAfrican) is still getting battered, but it fights on. It will outlast its detractors.

Uganda’s Crested Crane faces threats, conservation efforts underway youtu.be/lvSYh2AfWv4?si… via YouTube

A doctor arrives late to the ward and finds his patient missing... monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/co…

An insightful one from Timothy Kalyegira. Toward post-election authoritarianism monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazin…

Here is what the NMG Uganda will live and die for monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/ed…

Is Museveni’s $1.5bn ‘mega airport’ project a real deal? theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business-t…