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By Flavia Nassaka Looking beyond the massive deployment and violence-wary population One of the tensest moments of the Feb. 18 presidential and parliamentary elections came just hours after the polls closed on Feb. 19. It was early morning and the chairman of the Electoral Commission, Badrukigundu, had earlier announced that …

By the Indepenent Team The UK newspaper, The Observer, gives its view on presidential elections in Uganda Yoweri Museveni has had a good run. Having seized power in Uganda in 1986, he has held the presidency ever since. As guerrilla leader turned politician-statesman, Museveni fitted the late 20th-century leadership profile …

How Museveni’s grassroots structures resisted Besigye’s campaign momentum Last week, Yoweri Museveni was reelected to a seventh (fifth elective) term of office as President of Uganda, defeating (or rigging – as his supporters claim) his main rival, Dr. Kizza Besigye. It was the most competitive election Museveni has faced since …

By Agnes E. Nantaba Crispy Kaheru is a Human rights defender and Coordinator of Citizen’s Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU). He spoke to Agnes E Nantaba about resurrected born-again living and working for a calling. Any three things we don’t know about you? I am born and bred …

By Mike Sebalu His actions leave many Ugandans in a confused state as to which Besigye to believe when it comes to his campaign I wish to congratulate candidate Yoweri Museveni of the NRM party who emerged the winner of the just concluded presidential elections. In the same vein, my …

By Haggai Matsiko The story hidden behind the numbers President Yoweri Museveni won the Feb.18 elections but he is still bristling with campaign trail frustration. The President, who won with 61% of the vote, has said publically that international election observers, who announced that he did not win fairly, are …

AFP Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling party is set to dominate parliament once again, according to results being compiled by the election commission after last week’s vote. However, at least 17 ministers lost their seats in the election that saw Museveni win a fifth term …

Paris, France | AFP | Numerous presidents, especially in Africa and Latin America, have sought to amend their countries’ constitutions in an attempt to hang onto power. Bolivia’s Evo Morales, who conceded on Wednesday he had lost a bid to seek a fourth term, is one of the few leaders …

Independent Reporter and AFP REPORTS JUST IN INDICATE THAT Opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been held by the Uganda Police after he attempted to march into the city from his home in Kasangati, 14km outside Kampala. Besigye had planned to march with his supporters to the Electoral Commission to get …

Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Saturday 2/20/2016 Uganda’s top opposition leader Kizza Besigye said poll results Saturday handing President Yoweri Museveni a fifth term should be rejected, in a statement issued while under house arrest surrounded by dozens of police. “The results of the presidential elections must be rejected,” Besigye’s …