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Busia, Uganda | URN | The Electoral Commission cancelled the local council one elections in the three villages following reported chaos by voters at the polling stations in Busia district. The elections were cancelled in Solo B village in Western Division, Buwumba village in Dabani sub-county and Buhamuna village in …

    COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | Uganda will be in election mode again tomorrow, July 28th. This time we shall be electing the Local Council One (LC1) chairpersons across the whole country. This is after several postponements due to lack of money to fund the grassroots elections. The government …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Public officers in local governments, including teachers, health workers, administrative staff and extension workers who have not resigned 30 days before the election date of July 28th, are not eligible to contest in the coming local council polls. The minister of local government, Barugahara Balaam …

  The whole northern region of Tigray, which has been trying to recover from a brutal civil war that ended in 2022, has been totally excluded from the poll   NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Ethiopia’s general election takes place on Monday (June 1) as conflict rages in parts of …

  Oboth Oboth and the illusion of choice   COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Parliamentary elections are usually defined by late-night lobbying and shifting alliances, but the race to elect a new Speaker was effectively ended when Jacob Oboth Oboth secured an early endorsement from Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. …

    *⃣  Oboth Oboth 441 *⃣  Mwiru 60 votes *⃣  Mao 15 votes *⃣ Spoilt votes 3 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth has been overwhelmingly voted Speaker of Uganda’s 12th Parliament by over 400 votes at a special sitting at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds Three candidates were …

  COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | Now that the new president is sworn in for the 2026-2031 term, the end of the election period also marks the start of the new Kisanja’s work. In the concluding term, 2021-2026, we saw many achievements despite a few challenges, notably corruption. Some Ugandans …

  The long running show adds another season   COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | At exactly 11:50am, beneath Kampala’s unforgiving midday sun, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni took the oath of office at the Kololo Independence Grounds for another term as a 21-gun salute cracked across the capital, announcing not so …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Months after the conclusion of the 2026 general elections, Uganda remains locked in a digital standoff. While the Electoral Commission (EC) officially declared Yoweri Museveni the victor in mid-January, opposition figures have turned to X (formerly Twitter) to wage a persistent campaign for “granular transparency,” …

COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI |  In a little over a week, on May 12th, Ugandans will gather at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds and before their television screens to witness the swearing-in of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for an unprecedented seventh term. When he was first sworn in on January 29, 1986, Uganda …