/News/National/-/688334/688334/-/vgpkiq/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Karamoja+leaders+want+cement+trucks+off+route/-/688334/1410760/-/h0o816z/-/index.html Adding weight to the already bad roads in the sub-region, the chairpersons say the trucks should find an alternative route because their unregulated weight affects their roads. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410894/-/ahf9q2z/-/index.html The ruling NRM party went through a series of lobbying, tribal caucusing and internal party meetings yesterday ahead of voting for its representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Parliament+honours+Obwangor/-/688334/1410896/-/pn7926/-/index.html Obwangor’s death comes after two key figures passed on early this year before the country celebrates 50 years of independence in October. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Entebbe+bans+committees+over+illegal+land+deals+and+evictions/-/688334/1410738/-/pnvdd6/-/index.html Authorities in Entebbe Municipal Council and Wakiso have banned Entebbe land committees for allegedly supporting investors to illegally acquire land titles on people’s plots. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Coffee+farmers+blame+low+yields+on+bad+weather/-/688334/1410776/-/vsaw68/-/index.html Farmers say they have many responsibilities such as paying school fees which hinders them from getting money to expand coffee growing. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410752/-/ahfam4z/-/index.html Gen. Kayihura’s orders follow continued fights between Congolese government and rebel outfits in the eastern part of the country. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/HIV+Aids+inmates+in+Gulu+Prison+face+food+shortage/-/688334/1410770/-/eyfhr4z/-/index.html Prisoners living with HIV/Aids take more food than others yet the prison lacks the capacity to effectively cater for them. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Government+sued+over+nodding/-/688334/1410892/-/45eq4r/-/index.html Health Watch- Uganda, an NGO, has dragged government to court for allegedly violating the right of children affected by nodding disease in northern Uganda. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Despair+as+mental+symptoms+take+toll+on+nodding+children/-/688334/1410888/-/n0g6m0/-/index.html From nodding to seizures, parents of nodding disease patients in Acholi Sub-region are now grappling with mental symptoms, which make victims aggressive and seclusive. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410886/-/ahf9qvz/-/index.html The European Union yesterday said it welcomed amendments proposed to the controversy-ridden Public Order Management Bill by a House committee and asked MPs to “follow them with a sense of maturity that is featuring in the 9th Parliament”. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Red+Cross+joins+govt+in+measles+immunisation/-/688334/1410746/-/jlfahez/-/index.html The Uganda Red Cross Society has deployed 3,111 volunteers to support government in mobilising parents and guardians to participate in a countrywide mass measles immunisation slated for May 26 to 28. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Trainee+pilot+crashes+plane+at+Soroti+school/-/688334/1410900/-/7g6x68/-/index.html Word has it that the flying school has been hit by resignation of three instructors in the last three weeks, which would translate that the accident might have been caused by such deficiencies. The cause of the crash is, however, under investigation. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410884/-/ahf9qxz/-/index.html The findings reveal that the issue of quality in most schools remains unresolved and the government annually loses Shs20b to ghost teachers. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/One+in+three+adults+has+high+blood+pressure/-/688334/1410902/-/vu9uo4/-/index.html One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released last week. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410768/-/ahfal2z/-/index.html Recruitment of new staff in Luuka District has been halted following a council resolution suspending the services of Kaliro District Service Commission. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410904/-/ahf96kz/-/index.html With one officer nursing a bitten finger at Mulago Hospital, the police say the rowdy opposition crowd at Nakasero Market pounced on them. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Buganda+to+mark+Lubiri+massacre+on+Thursday/-/688334/1410748/-/v7g2fy/-/index.html It will be four decades since the attack on Mengo Palace (Lubiri) by Milton Obote’s army, but the horrific incident still lingers on in the minds of many Baganda. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410906/-/ahf96iz/-/index.html Kampala District Land Board has accused Kampala Capital City Authority top officials of influencing the board’s operation to execute opportunist interests of grabbing public land and people’s property. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Police+respond+to+NTV+Ingrid+Turinawe+arrest+video/-/688334/1410530/-/83p4jd/-/index.html Police has issued video footage of Ingrid Turinawe’s arrest that it says shows a different version of events from the NTV video footage that provoked outrage in April. 2012-05-21T16:06:26Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Karamoja+leaders+accuse+First+Family+of+land+grabbing/-/688334/1410032/-/q4jf50/-/index.html State House at the weekend denied claims by some politicians from Karamoja on Friday that “members of the ruling family” are involved in a land-grabbing racket in mineral-rich parts of the sub-region. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410034/-/ahfg61z/-/index.html Most of those implicated are said to have declared fake names, have expired passports, lost passports or conducted shady businesses that later exposed them. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1410036/-/ahfg5yz/-/index.html Parliament is expected to resume debate on the controversy-ridden Public Order Management Bill after opposition MPs last week asked for more time to allow them consult. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Christian+health+units+boosted/-/688334/1410072/-/gmuoxc/-/index.html Arrangements to re-equip 19 religious founded health centres countrywide are underway to improve HIV/Aids services in rural areas. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Ex+LRA+rebel+held+over+car+vandalism/-/688334/1410062/-/aqosjcz/-/index.html Former Lord’s Resistance Army rebel Denis Opio is among the seven suspected car vandals who were arrested in Muyenga, a Kampala suburb. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/200+displaced+as+rainstorm+hits+Nakaseke/-/688334/1409950/-/ufananz/-/index.html At least 200 residents in Nakaseke District have no shelter after their houses were destroyed by a rainstorm that also left at least eight people injured by debris on Saturday. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z