Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Disappointments have continued emerging within the National Resistance Movement -NRM in Kyotera, bedeviling the party’s bid to dominate the next parliament. Just a few days to the general elections, another group of NRM cadres has come out to campaign for Democratic Party -DP’s Fortunate Rose …
Read More »Mityana municipality DP candidate abandons Mao, campaigns for Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Democratic Party-DP’s Abraham Luzzi who is contesting for Mityana municipality MP seat is campaigning for NRM’s candidate Yoweri Museveni despite the presence of his party’s president general Norbert Mao in the presidential race. Uganda will on Thursday 14th January this week hold general elections with …
Read More »Journalists won’t require media council accreditation to cover polls – EC
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Journalists who have not re-registered will now be free to do their expected duties during the elections without fear of arrest as the Uganda Media Council has directed in a circular to police all over the country. Although the Electoral Commission had earlier required journalists …
Read More »Uganda’s EC clarifies on phone, camera restrictions at polling stations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Electoral Commission has eased restrictions on use of cameras and other recording devices at polling stations on election day. Earlier this week, the chairman of the commission Justice Simon Byabakama had communicated new guidelines that would apply to the January 14, general election. Contentious …
Read More »UN High Commissioner for human rights condemns abuses in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has voiced concern over what it calls “the deteriorating human rights situation in Uganda ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for 14 January. In a press briefing, Ravina Shamdasani, the Spokesperson for the …
Read More »Hate speech threatens peace in Northern Uganda – IRCU
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) has discovered signs and events that are believed to be threatening peace in the coming week of the general elections. The signs were identified by senior religious leaders, members of the different security agencies, political party leaders and opinion …
Read More »VOTER EDUCATION: EC register has 18.1 million
📌 Total number of voters Uganda elections 2021 ✅ Number of Voters: 18,103,603 ✅ Number of Polling Stations:34,684 📌 Districts with highest populations ➡ Kampala 1,280,409 ➡ Wakiso 1,154,857 ➡ Kasese 384,058 ➡ Mukono 355,275 ➡ Ntungamo 268,541 ➡ Tororo 268,434 ➡ Luwero 257,115 ➡ Kamuli 236,917 ➡ Buikwe 235,640 ➡ Isingiro 233,099 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are 18,103,603 …
Read More »Presidential candidate Fred Mwesigye ends campaigns, goes into praying
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate Fred Mwesigye says that he has now ended his campaigns to join the spiritual world with intention to pray for peaceful elections due on January 14th 2021. The Electoral Commission set January 12th, 2021 as the official date for all the candidates to …
Read More »Deputy Mufti asks security to reduce on violence against civilians
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first Deputy Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Abdallah Semmambo has asked security to refrain from using excessive force while dealing with civilians. Semmambo was speaking at Gadhafi National Mosque in Old Kampala where he led a special prayer ahead of the national elections next week. …
Read More »Bobi Wine’s dangerous duplicity
What the evacuation of his family from Uganda before elections reveals about Uganda’s musician turned politician Kyagulanyi THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | In 2018, I appeared on Frontline program of NBS television with Bobi Wine. In the heat of the debate he said that if there were chaos …
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