Politics
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President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to run Daily Monitor newspaper bankrupt over a recent story indicating that his inner circle had received jabs of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine months ahead of health workers and other vulnerable groups. The Daily Monitor reported the story on 23rd February basing on an American newspaper- the Wall Street Journal […]
National Unity Platform, (NUP) leaders from Mukono District on Monday surprised their party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, by returning Shs25m meant for facilitation of polling agents during the recently concluded elections. In the run-up to the elections, money was a top priority for most leaders to either carry their party flag or […]
A joint Security Force made of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces and the Uganda Police last night vacated the home of former National Unity Platform presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine. The move comes barely a day after the High Court in Kampala ordered for the immediate withdrawal of security forces in and […]
All civil servants who are aspiring for parliamentary seats in the forthcoming general elections have been instructed to relinquish their current positions by July 12, 2020. The instruction was given by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government Ben Kumumanya through a circular to all Chief Administrative Officers and Town Clerks. In the […]
Local Defense Unit-LDU personnel have thumped the Mityana LC 5 Chairperson, Joseph Luzige. Eye witnesses say four LDUs roughed up Luzige on Tuesday evening when he confronted them for beating up a woman who was riding on a motorcycle past curfew time. “When the cyclist rammed into the LDUs who were patrolling Mityana town they […]
The Electoral Commission is seeking more time to implement an order to allow Ugandans in the diaspora and those in prisons to participate in electoral processes. The High Court in Kampala issued the order last month on the basis of a petition filed by lawyer Stephen Kalali who argued that the omission and exclusion of […]
As the debate on the recently released Electoral Commission revised roadmap that will see the 2021 elections held without mass campaigns rages, Norbert Mao, the DP president has said parliament should debate the possibility of postponing these elections. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network -URN today, Mao said if government insists that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is […]
Speculation as to whether there will be elections in 2021 is finally over with the Electoral Commission, the body charged with organizing elections in Uganda coming out today to announce a revised electoral roadmap. This is not going to be a conventional election like we have known it, where candidates traverse the country campaigning by […]