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3 weeks ago | 
monitor.co.ug | Philip Wafula |Mercy Nalugo |Tobbias Jolly Owiny
Cardinal Kevin Farrell will be in charge of organising the conclave
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
In late 2003, Josephine Anena (not her real name) and her elder sister, both born in captivity, returned home together with their mother, who was abducted aged just 13 in 1997. However, their mother’s family, located in Acholibur, Pader District, could not accommodate them or welcome their mother since their paternity was unknown. “The family had conditioned me to first return the girls to their father or his family, in case he is still in captivity or dead.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
The wobbly pattern of cotton production in Uganda has brought to question the feasibility of a 2018 directive by President Museveni to restrict the importation and sales of second-hand clothes. In the Financial Year (FY) 2019/2020, Uganda produced 173,457 bales (32.08 million tonnes) of cotton. This fetched $42.36m (about Shs155b), a significant slump from $57.83m (about Shs212b) realised from sales of 189,444 bales (35.04 million tonnes) of cotton in FY 2018/2019.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
What you need to know:The event, which brought together his friends, business partners, and key government officials, raised over Shs1 billion for the construction of the sisters' new residence. Gen Salim Saleh's 65th birthday celebration turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu (LSMIG).
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
What you need to know:The event, which brought together his friends, business partners, and key government officials, raised over Shs1 billion for the construction of the sisters' new residence. Gen Salim Saleh's 65th birthday celebration turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu (LSMIG).
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
At exactly half past 7pm on September 3, 2024, Derrick Omona, riding a motorcycle, slowly snaked his way through the muddy and pothole-riddled Awach road to reach Abera Forest junction (tarmac). Carrying three bags of charcoal, Omona—in tandem with another rider, who ferried another two bags—got past Unyama Trading Centre. Under the cover of darkness, they effortlessly reached the Industrial Area village in Bardege-Layibi Division in Gulu City.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
The demand for meat by the oil and gas companies could triple from an annual average of 568,000 kilogrammes at the current development stage to more than 1.9m kilogrammes once production kicks off in the next few years, experts have estimated. While the meat demands stand at 567,827kgs in the first year of the development stage, Monitor has established that the number could jump to more than 1.3 million and 1.9 million kilogrammes in the production stages one and two, respectively.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
The iconic Pece Stream, a vital wetland within Gulu City’s central business district, is under siege from rapid urbanisation and contentious political developments. As a key biodiversity area into which 85 percent of the city’s waterways drain, the wetland supports numerous aquatic and bird species. However, its future is at risk amid disputes over a proposed fuel station.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
When the only radiotherapy machine at Mulago National Referral Hospital broke down in the early 1990s, all roads led to St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu City since it was the only facility with an active and functional radiotherapy unit in the country. This meant that the unit would absorb and handle patients not only from Uganda but also from Western Kenya, Rwanda, Eastern DRC, and Sudan, who depended on the Mulago facility.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
monitor.co.ug | Tobbias Jolly Owiny
Victoria Lakati, a mother of three, sits in the company of seven other women on a set of benches at Awich Health Centre III at Palabek Refugee Settlement in Lamwo District. As a counsellor under the refugee welfare committee in the settlement, Ms Lakati’s routinely conducts counselling and health talk sessions with refugee women at the settlement riddled with ever-increasing gender-based and sexual violence.
