The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, has issued a clarion call to the people of Buganda, both at home and in the diaspora, to shift their focus from dependency on external aid to self ...

Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among has joined the "Buganda for Museveni" campaign, urging the people of Lwengo District to rally behind President Museveni in the upcoming 2026 general elections.

Kampala, like Rome, is built on seven hills, and to Ugandans each has its special significance. But none is so important as Mengo Hill, where a rambling brick palace on the peak is an object of ...

Charles Lwanga had been born in the kingdom of Buganda, raised to embrace the traditional folk religion of his tribe. He was a young man when the White Fathers had arrived in Buganda.

First Family turns to faith as rift with Buganda and Ugandans widens National May 27 Ugandans tell the Musevenis: Apology is nothing without change, action ...

On May 19 2025, I wrote an open letter to President Yoweri Museveni, published in the Daily Monitor, reminding him of Buganda’s central role in the history of Uganda.

Pastor John Wanyama of Revival Pentecostal Church in Busia, a border town between Kenya and Uganda, traveled with 500 fellow pilgrims. “Namugongo reminds us of the cost of true faith,” he said.

“Every sore on my feet is part of my prayer,” said Brenda Wesonga, a pilgrim from Bungoma, Kenya, who walked for three weeks, covering more than 300 kilometers, or 186 miles.

What you need to know: Mr Musa Nsubuga, the administrator of Namugongo Muslim Martyrs Site, told Daily Monitor that despite more than 100 Muslim martyrs being killed between 1874 and 1876, the ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity ...

Two people who the Ugandan army describe as "armed terrorists" have been killed in the capital, Kampala, as the country marks Martyrs Day - a Christian celebration to commemorate the faithful who ...

The Martyrs Day event, one of the largest Christian pilgrimages in Africa, draws millions of believers each year to honour 45 people, made up of 22 Catholics and 23 Anglicans, who were killed ...