Tag Archives: elections

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 …

Mpondwe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The closure of the Uganda- Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border at Mpondwe has left dozens of trucks stranded. DRC closed its border on Tuesday following the Wednesday general elections. Although the Kinshasa government declared that the border closure would take only 24 hours, …

Arusha, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT |  The East African Community (EAC) will not participate as an observer in the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due on Wednesday, December 20. The secretariat said in a brief statement that the DRC authorities had declined the EAC application to have …

CAIRO | Xinhua | Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) declared on Monday that incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi won the 2024 presidential election with 89.6 percent of valid votes. At a press conference in the capital Cairo, the NEA said the turnout reached 66.8 percent of the total 67 million eligible …

BAGHDAD, IRAQ | Xinhua | Iraqi security personnel cast their votes on Saturday in 15 of the country’s 18 provinces ahead of the provincial elections slated for Monday following a 10-year hiatus. The voting began after 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) when soldiers and policemen lined up to cast …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in Katonga Division faces a critical juncture ahead of its upcoming grassroots and party structure elections scheduled for the weekend. The already fragile unity within the party is at risk of further disintegration, raising concerns about the FDC’s future. …