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  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Charles Ayume has floored Minister of State for Investment, Evelyn Anite in a heavily contested NRM party primary poll in Koboko “Thank you for believing in me and the legacy of my father. You have spoken loud and clear. I am humbled by …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of registered National Resistance Movement-NRM party members in Kitgum district have missed participating in today’s primary elections. In polling stations within and outside the municipality, a number of those who were supposed to vote after verifying their names earlier missed the exercise while others …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | There were mixed reactions in parts of Wakiso on the guidance given by National Resistance Movement-NRM chairman Yoweri Museveni, allowing non-registered members of the party to participate in the ongoing primaries. Museveni recently guided that all party members with cards, but whose names do …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Entebbe Municipality Deputy Mayor, Richard Ssekyondo and three others were on Thursday arrested for allegedly inciting violence. This was during the repeat elections for Entebbe Division ‘B’ Parish youth committee leaders.  The elections were cancelled on Wednesday due to acts of violence.   Ssekyondo, who …

Kampala , Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Voting for the NRM primaries Kampala Woman Member of Parliament in Nakawa East was characterised by delays in delivering election material and absence of polling agents. By 9:00 am, no voting point in the constituency had received voting materials. Many of the designated polling …

    Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Spokesman Ofwono Opondo has called for calm as fears of violence rose on the eve of Friday’s National Resistance Movement NRM party primaries. “My appeal to NRM members is that shame the naysayers by conducting free and fair elections,” he said hours to …

Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy deployment of police and the army in Sembabule district ahead of tomorrow’s National Resistance Movement – NRM party primaries. Armed security personnel are already patrolling the different areas of Sembabule to avert any cases of violence. The Deputy Inspector General of …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of NRM aspirants in Hima town council, Kasese district have showed dissatisfaction with the manner in which unknown persons are being added to the town council register. They accuse the Hima town council registrar Bernadette Nabukenya together with other persons within the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The chairman of the National Resistance Movement [NRM] Electoral Commission Dr Tanga Odoi has announced the cancellation of elections in Mawogola West County, Sembabule district over violence. The NRM tomorrow is holding nationwide party primaries to choose candidates for district and other Parliamentary seats. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Joint Security Taskforce has warned candidates and their supporters not to involve themselves in violence ahead of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party primaries on Friday. Speaking at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Polly Namaye, the Deputy Police Spokesperson said that the joint …