VIDEO: Millions of Kenyans vote in general election Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The Independent Electoral and Boundaries commission extended voting beyond 5pm in several counties as many Kenyans remained in the queues. There were delays in the delivery of polling materials in many places, and huge turn up …
Read More »Justice Kavuma declines to step down from Kato Lubwama’s election case
Kampala, Uganda |GODREY SSALI | The Deputy Chief Justice Stephen Kavuma has refused to step down from hearing a case in which Rubaga South MP Paul Kato Lubwama is seeking to block the filing of an election petition against him. Isaac Kimaze Ssemakadde , the lawyer representing Kato’s political rival Habib …
Read More »Kenya since 2007-2008 post-election violence
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Below are key dates since post-election violence in Kenya in 2007-2008 left more than 1,100 dead, the worst violence in the east African country since independence in 1963: – 2007-2008: post election violence – On December 27, 2007, outgoing president Mwai Kibaki is proclaimed winner again …
Read More »VIDEO: Activist Rwigara says Rwanda election was pre-determined
VIDEO: Activist Rwigara says Rwanda election was pre-determined Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Former Rwanda Presidential Aspirant, Diane Shima Rwigara, has told NTV that most people voted for President Paul Kagame in big numbers in the recent elections in Rwanda because of fear of reprisals from the regime. In a …
Read More »VIDEO: Kagame throws victory party, thanks Rwandans for trusting him
VIDEO: Kagame throws victory party, thanks Rwandans for trusting him Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA |President Paul Kagame has thanked Rwandans for showing the entire world that they still trust the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RFP) to lead them for seven more years. The President-elect of Rwanda made the remarks at …
Read More »Kenya opposition says US, Canadian poll advisers deported
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Two foreign nationals working on the opposition’s poll campaign are being deported from Kenya, the opposition and the US embassy said Saturday, just three days before a general election. In a tweet the US embassy in Nairobi said an American and a Canadian had been detained …
Read More »Senegal ruling party coalition claims election landslide
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | The ruling coalition of Senegal’s President Macky Sall won a widely expected landslide in a legislative election, his prime minister said Monday, bolstering Sall’s prospects for re-election in 2019. The Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition swept all but three of the country’s 45 electoral departments, …
Read More »In Senegal, Sall faces 91-yr-old ex-president and jailed mayor
President Sall faces double challenge as Senegal elects MPs Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Senegal holds a legislative election on Sunday following a campaign gripped by tension between the rival coalitions of President Macky Sall, his predecessor Abdoulaye Wade and Dakar’s detained mayor. The election is seen as a crucial test …
Read More »DR Congo opposition unveil plans to force Kabila out
Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | The Congolese opposition on Saturday unveiled a rolling programme of strikes and civil disobedience aimed at forcing President Joseph Kabila from power. The announcement was made after two days of opposition talks in Kinshasa amid concerns that Kabila, in power since 2001, is seeking …
Read More »Kenya MP faces contempt charge for ethnic comments
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenyan police said on Friday they had arrested an opposition parliamentarian on suspicion of “ethnic contempt” over a public address he made ahead of next month’s tight presidential election. Junet Mohammed, a high-ranking member of leading opposition candidate Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement, was taken …
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