National Resistance Movement (NRM) party officials have indicated that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) could lose out in the race to fill Uganda’s nine places in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Appearing on the NBS TV political show Frontline on Thursday night, the NRM Electoral Commission chairman Dr. …
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COVER STORY MPs catch Shs500bn ‘mistakenly’ given to defense budget: Museveni was planning to use money to buy spying equipment, say MPs NEWS ANALYSIS Why Kenya lost fight for AU top job: And why East Africa lost more over outdated voting habits at continental body THE LAST WORD Why …
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Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump reaffirmed Washington’s ‘One China’ policy on Thursday in his first conversation with Xi Jinping, an apparent effort to ease tensions after angering Beijing by questioning a major plank of Sino-US relations. During a phone call with China’s leader, the US president …
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Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The European Union announced aid worth 225 million euros ($240 million) for The Gambia on Thursday as President Adama Barrow warned that the nation was “virtually bankrupt” due to economic mismanagement by the former regime. The EU froze assistance to The Gambia in December 2014 …
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Cape Town, South Africa | AFP | A brawl broke out in South Africa’s parliament Thursday as guards exchanged punches with opposition lawmakers who shouted down President Jacob Zuma as he tried to deliver his state of the nation address. In chaotic scenes, guards in white shirts forcibly ejected about …
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Los Angeles, United States | AFP | A US court on Thursday unanimously refused to reinstate Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat. The ruling from the federal appeals court in San Francisco on …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Somali lawmakers were choosing a president under tight security Wednesday, with roads closed and residents urged to remain indoors over fears of a strike on the capital by Shabaab militants. Freshly elected MPs and senators held a first round of voting in a hangar at …
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Uganda is stuck with Museveni because the opposition is stuck with Besigye Given the high growth of visits to my page during the this festive season, I will be posting daily briefs on the crisis of the opposition in Uganda which I want to blame largely on Dr. Kizza Besigye. …
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The trouble with Besigye’s radicals Something must be wrong, totally wrong with Besigye faction of FDC radicals. Either they are few on the ground but noisy on social media. In which case M7 can afford to ignore them. Or they are many but lack both strategy and leadership to …
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VIDEO: Uganda’s Court of Appeal has stayed all proceedings in the Kato Lubwama election petition before the high court. Kato Lubwama petitioned the court challenging High Court Judge Margaret Ouma Oguri’s decision to allow Habib Buwembo, a voter in Rubaga South a go head to file an election petition challenging …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
