Tag Archives: Uganda

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans on Tuesday cast their ballots for chairpersons and councillors in 56 municipalities and city divisions. A key concern among the candidates and the election observers was the low voter turnout at the polling stations. A similar concern was raised at the Presidential and …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | The electoral political season is almost done. The victors are celebrating. The losers are counting losses. It’s more difficult for the losers. This is largely due to the nature of investment in the elections, both financially and emotionally. The biggest problem with African and …

Kasibante Asks Supreme Court to Open Up EC Electronic Voting Systems Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Supreme Court has begun hearing an application to order the Electoral Commission and President Yoweri Museveni to release key election documents and allow access to electronic voting systems used in the January …

  Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The tallying of votes from Wakiso’s recently concluded municipal elections has descended into chaos, marked by slow progress, emotional outbursts, heated arguments, physical scuffles, and raw anger. When the tally centre opened on Tuesday evening, several candidates, most of them from the National …

  Remand of MP and Bobi Wine ally revives fears of MP Ssegirinya’s torture and death COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Fears for the life of outgoing Butambala County MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi have intensified after he was charged with terrorism and remanded to Kitalya Prison, a move that has …

  What Uganda’s opposition lacks and how it has relegated them into a position of perpetual sore losers THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | In our column last week, we argued that how to challenge President Yoweri Museveni in an election has to respond to the specific ways in …

Freedom of speech, constitutional rights, electoral transparency and business loss Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On the evening of Jan 13, two days to a highly anticipated presidential election, Uganda went off grid as the government through the Uganda Communications Commission shut down the internet leaving millions of people …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Not all safaris are the same. Some are crowded and rushed, while others feel like stepping into a different world. In Uganda, the real magic happens when you move beyond the usual parks and follow routes that reveal the country slowly and beautifully. …

  THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | At the beginning of January, I drove from Kabale to Rukungiri, Bushenyi, Kaseese, Fort Portal, Kyenjojo, Mubende, Mityana and Kampala. Then in the last week of the election, I was joined by Prof. Melina Platas of New York University and Prof. Jude …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a congratulatory message to Yoweri Museveni on his re-election as president of Uganda. Xi said in the message that China and Uganda, bound by a long-standing traditional friendship, have in recent years firmly supported each other on issues concerning …