Derrick Kiyonga is a journalist for Monitor Publications Limited, a Nation Media Group company, with a focus on local news in Uganda, specifically in Kampala. He covers a wide range of topics including politics, current affairs, and social issues, providing insightful analysis and reporting on significant events and developments in the region.
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Derrick Kiyonga's focus is on local politics and government affairs, primarily centered around Uganda, especially Kampala. His coverage attributes show a strong emphasis on government announcements, evolving stories, breaking news, and legal policy regulation.
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Leader of the Opposition Parliament Joel Ssenyonyi. PHOTO/FILE
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Critics have deemed the charge of terrorism, which according to Ugandan laws carries a maximum penalty of death, as a political charge
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Ingrid Turinawe, for years, had embodied what ‘foot-soldering’ is in Uganda’s Opposition ranks, but after the fallout that emerged in the run-up to the 2021 elections in her FDC she decided to be...
Former Leader of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga (right) takes his party president Robert Kyagulanyi (left) on a tour of Masaka City in May 2023. PHOTO/ Courtesy of @MathiasMpuuga on X
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Sources say it was this acidic tongue of his that ultimately ended his 13–year–old tenure as President Museveni’s press secretary
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Seventeen years after it was formed, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is headed for its second—and quite possibly most consequential—split after Mugisha Muntu walked away with luminaries like Alice Alaso in 2018.
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Lugya Bbosa Tabula, who was arrested on allegations of being the mastermind of killing clan head Daniel Bbosa Kakeedo on February 25, claims the leadership of the clan was supposed to be in the...
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Two months ago, in a move that was aimed to show that he has more allies within the Opposition beyond his party the National Unity Platform (NUP), Mr Mathias Mpuuga, the Nyendo-Mukungwe lawmaker, visited Richard Lumu, who represents Mityana South on a Democratic Party (DP) ticket.
By: Derrick Kiyonga
NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi, Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda and Lawyer George Musisi. Photos/Courtesy
By: Derrick Kiyonga
Decolonisation, which among others translates to changing pedagogies to be more inclusive and revising curricula to be alive to the knowledge from the global south, has dominated the bill in African ivory towers for some time now. It has also been the pet subject of lawyer Isaac Kimaze Ssemakadde, whose promises to decolonise Uganda’s legal system have been persistent.
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