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Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Eratu, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party candidate in the Serere County by-election on Tuesday held door-to-door campaigns to lure potential voters. Eratu and his campaign team reached out to voters in their homes and business premises. He said that door-to-door is one of …

Kampala, Uganda | THEvINDEPENDENT | Makerere University Guild aspirants are struggling to reach out to students using virtual campaigns the only allowed format a few days before their elections. The Makerere University Council backed down from its earlier decision and allowed students to hold Guild elections which were suspended in July …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political candidates vying for the Busongora South parliamentary seat have embarked on door-to-door campaigns to lure potential voters. Political campaigns end today, ahead of the by-election on Thursday. The National Resistance-Movement-NRM party has formed groups spearheaded by persons that are attached to ethnicities in the …

Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have declined to release a sound truck belonging to the National Unity Platform-NUP candidate Harriet Nakwede, for the Kayunga LC V chairperson by-elections. Police and the army intercepted the sound truck at around 8pm on Monday evening as the NUP team was returning from …

Damascus, Syria |  XINHUA | The Syrian presidential campaigns have officially started on Sunday as posters of President Bashar al-Assad and the two other candidates filled the squares and streets in the capital Damascus. Under the theme “Hope is in Work,” Assad has started his campaign where his posters, most …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has called for a halt in the campaigns for Speaker and Deputy Speaker in the National Resistance Movement -NRM party, saying the Central Executive Committee-CEC will resolve the matter. Yesterday, President Museveni summoned front runners for the NRM speakership race to State House …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On December 30th, 2020, Bony Obicho, 25, a mechanic who was working on National Unity Platform-NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi damaged campaign cars was among the more than 100 campaigners who landed at Kalangala island where the pop-star-turned-politician had gone to campaign. A father of two children, …

Lusaka, Zambia | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Zambian government on Monday expressed concern that abuse of cyberspace has continued despite heightened campaigns against the vice. Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya said the government was concerned with the rampant abuse and called for concerted efforts from all stakeholders to ensure that citizens …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The morning of December 27, 2020, was like any other daybreak for Ashraf Saif-Allah Kasirye, a reporter working with and for Ghetto Media, an online TV affiliated with the National Unity Platform former presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert. By December 27, Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 65 percent of all Covid-19 deaths in Uganda occurred during the recent campaign season. This accounts for 215 out of the 327 deaths recorded in the country since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease almost a year ago. The deaths occurred between November …