Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Internet and social media services have been fully restored, ICT State minister of Uganda Ogwang Ogwang has just announced. It was switched off on the eve of the elections held on January 14, and Ugandans have been using Virtual Private …
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Court has set Thursday, February 11 as the day to meet with all the parties to agree on the matters that are going to be determined in the hearing. The court is expected to give its verdict not later than March 17. ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | It is almost 20 …
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So why did Bobi Wine go there? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.01 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results that declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner. In the petition, Bobi Wine who ran …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Court can’t reverse Museveni election win: So why did Bobi Wine go there? THE LAST WORD Africa’s democratic dilemma: How the Western world has decided our future for us and it seeks to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former National Unity Platform-NUP Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Thursday held a meeting with the European Union (EU) delegation. The team was led by the EU head of Delegation in Uganda Attilio Pacifici along with ambassadors representing nine european countries in Uganda. The NUP …
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There is a peaceful way forward to a permanent solution between Buganda and the government after elections COMMENT | ABBEY KIBIRIGE SEMUWEMBA | Thanks to President Yoweri Museveni’s speech after being declared the winner of the 2021 elections, Uganda’s post presidential election is fast turning into a debate on Buganda …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The lawyers representing the first runner-up in the recently concluded presidential elections Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, have finally got some relief after serving President Elect Yoweri Museveni with copies of the petition seeking to overturn his victory. The lawyers led by Anthony Wameli and Geoffrey …
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Kyagulanyi’s lawyers desperately hunt for Museveni to serve him petition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, runner-up according to the Electoral Commission in the January 14 presidential elections, have spent the whole day looking for the President-Elect Yoweri Tibahaburwa Museveni …
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Research shows why he is running out of options | THE INDEPENDENT | New research by professors from Makerere University Kampala and the University of Sheffield in the UK has been released in an attempt to explain how President Yoweri Museveni and the ruling NRM government are fighting to maintain …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers acting on behalf of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party residential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results. The petition raises 15 issues of electoral irregularities, 10 issues of electoral offences …
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