Browsing by Author "Onyango-Obbo, Charles"

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    A 300% rise in divorce reveals the revolution Museveni lost
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-18) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    On January 26, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Museveni marked 40 years in power. Following victory in the disputed January 15 vote, the countdown to May has begun, when Museveni will be sworn in to begin march towards 45 years in office.
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    An open email to Daniel Kalinaki.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-08) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    A boy Daniel, I read and reflected on your column, " From Mochi to Namuwongo" back, what should the monitor do" (Daily Monitor, April 21). I have a few things to say about it.
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    Bobi Wine's flight reveals the unfinished nation.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-03-18) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    After two months in hiding, National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, fled the country last week. His departure followed a disputed January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni was declared the victor by a too-shiny 72 percent of the vote.
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    Coffee man Rugasira, a new world, and the election that disappeared.
    (Daily monitor, 2016-12-28) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    As the strange and laughable events of 2016 come and go in Uganda, the cancellation of the December 16 election for the Uganda National Chamber of Commercial is definitely among the top six. Trade and Industry minister Amelia Kyambadde scrubbed the event, citing "serious" "national security threats and concerns", following a letter from the current chair of UNCC Olive Kigongo.
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    Kabalega's 1879 breakthrough shows we can fix housing gap
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-19) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    Charles Onyango-Obbo, argues that the 2050 generation will not ask whether we handed out tractors. They will ask whether we built the system that allowed them to own one —and a home besides.
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    Nasser road and the revolution in fake.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-15) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    The ghost of gamal Abdel Nasser sometimes walks through the noise of Kampala. He pauses amid the roar of industrial printers and the weave of motorcycles, wondering how his name came to define this strain of Ugandan chaos.
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    Why Masaka always burns to save Uganda
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-25) Onyango-Obbo, Charles
    Exactly 49 years ago last night, the combined forces of the Tanzanian People’s Defence Forces and Uganda exile groups, the Uganda National Liberation Front/Army, dealt a decisive blow against the regime of Field Marshal Idi Amin in the Battle of Masaka (February 23 and 24, 1979).