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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Aspirants eyeing Parliamentary seats in Luwero district have started early campaigns ahead of nominations next year. According to the Electoral Commission Road Map, Parliamentary candidates’ nominations shall be held on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th of September 2025. Polling shall be held on a …

KIGALI | Xinhua | The National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Rwanda has announced that it will begin accepting nominations for the positions of president and members of the lower chamber of deputies from May 17-30. “We have started training on electoral laws and regulations governing the presidential and lower chamber …

Why Dr. Besigye’s party could be no more by 2026 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | 2024 is the year the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) marks twenty years. Ideally, it should have been a milestone for the first major opposition party in the era of multiparty politics. Instead the party …

ISLAMABAD | Xinhua | Just a day before Pakistan’s general elections, two powerful explosions hit election campaign offices in the country’s southwest Balochistan province on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people while injuring over 45 others, said police and hospital officials. The deadly bombings, targeting the offices of candidates contesting …

DAKAR | Xinhua |  Senegal’s parliament on Monday adopted a bill postponing the presidential election until Dec. 15 this year. Deputies from the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition and the main opposition Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) voted on the bill, which enjoyed majority backing. The bill was proposed by PDS …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local Council elections will have to wait for 180 more days (6months) due to lack of funds. This follows the tabling of the statutory instruments providing for the extension, on the floor of the House in a sitting. While chairing the sitting, Speaker Anita Among …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which removed him from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. Two weeks ago, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump, who is the 2024 Republican …

COMMENT | Jan-Werner Mueller |  More than two months after the decisive victory of pro-democracy parties in Poland’s general election, opposition leader Donald Tusk has finally been sworn in as prime minister. Initially, Mateusz Morawiecki, his predecessor from the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, had been reappointed by President Andrzej Duda, beholden to PiS, under the …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Luwero has summoned 37 bishops, including the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (COU), Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu to defend themselves against the cancellation of the election of Rev. Canon Godfrey Kasana Ssemakula as the fourth bishop of the Luwero …

London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans living in the diaspora have convened a conference in London to discuss possible ways of participating in national development projects such as the transfer of knowledge, skills, and technologies among others to promote gainful employment. The two-day conference dubbed the “Outreach Mission” is …