Museveni’s violence and what it should teach us THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On Feb.17, the NRM government, in characteristic style, used military police to unleash violence against a group of activists escorting Bobi Wine to the UN Human Rights office to deliver a petition. It was …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, has threatened to withdraw his petition from the Supreme Court challenging the victory of his rival and incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni. Kyagulanyi said he has asked the party lawyers to make a …
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External agitation and pressure may sound like a benign and welcome ingredient to take down a brazen dictator. Kampala, Uganda | MOSES KHISA | In the past few months, Western media and academia have placed unprecedented, and somewhat bewildering, focus on Uganda’s 2021 general elections. It is puzzling because throughout …
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Why the crackdown on Bobi Wine supporters may backfire on Museveni and NRM Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On Feb.09, Lydia Nassolo emerged from Mityana’s newly constructed Kitalya Prison, 56kms west of Kampala City, and pondered her next step. Her husband, Umar Kagimu, was not in the detention facility. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Internet and social media services have been fully restored, ICT State minister of Uganda Ogwang Ogwang has just announced. It was switched off on the eve of the elections held on January 14, and Ugandans have been using Virtual Private …
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Court has set Thursday, February 11 as the day to meet with all the parties to agree on the matters that are going to be determined in the hearing. The court is expected to give its verdict not later than March 17. ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | It is almost 20 …
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So why did Bobi Wine go there? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.01 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results that declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner. In the petition, Bobi Wine who ran …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Court can’t reverse Museveni election win: So why did Bobi Wine go there? THE LAST WORD Africa’s democratic dilemma: How the Western world has decided our future for us and it seeks to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former National Unity Platform-NUP Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Thursday held a meeting with the European Union (EU) delegation. The team was led by the EU head of Delegation in Uganda Attilio Pacifici along with ambassadors representing nine european countries in Uganda. The NUP …
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There is a peaceful way forward to a permanent solution between Buganda and the government after elections COMMENT | ABBEY KIBIRIGE SEMUWEMBA | Thanks to President Yoweri Museveni’s speech after being declared the winner of the 2021 elections, Uganda’s post presidential election is fast turning into a debate on Buganda …
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