Washington, United States | AFP | At every campaign rally, Elizabeth Warren, Democratic candidate for the US presidency, waits to hear the first notes of Dolly Parton’s popular country tune “9 to 5” before striding energetically onto the stage to greet wildly enthusiastic supporters. The musical backdrop to this age-old campaign …
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COMMENT | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | Greetings to all of you Ugandans. On New Year’s Day I will make a broadcast where I will give a detailed report of whatever is happening. However, for today I wanted to salute the Electoral Commission for registering voters and also for extending the registration time …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission has further extended the period for the general update of the National Voters’ Register to December 23. Tomorrow was supposed to have been the close of the extended exercise but according to the Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, they “received several requests from …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women is to train over 6,000 women with political ambitions for the forth coming 2021 general elections. The women will be trained on how to network with influential people, debate eloquently and how …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents and LCI chairpersons in Nakikota parish, Luweero district have disagreed with Electoral Commission officials over registration of non-residents during the update of the nationals voters’ register. Last month, the Electoral Commission embarked on general update of the National Voters’ Register ahead of 2020-21 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Government and Allied Workers Union, has asked government to focus on improving the salaries of civil servants other focusing on elections. This comes a week after the Finance Ministry, said government will not be in position to meet salary enhancement requirements for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Kingdom Kattikiro (Premier) Charles Peter Mayiga has rallied Ugandans to verify their names on the national voter’s register and ensure that they possess National Identification Cards (IDs) ahead of the 2021 general elections. He has however been irked by plans by the Electoral …
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Algiers, Algeria | AFP | Algerians are due to elect a new president next month but a huge protest movement bitterly rejects the vote, fearing it will cement in power politicians close to the disgraced old guard. Candidates have been loudly heckled during rare and low-key campaign events and their posters …
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Windhoek, Namibia | AFP | Polls opened in Namibia on Wednesday for presidential and parliamentary elections in which resentment stoked by economic hardship and a corruption scandal could challenge the ruling party’s majority. The sparsely populated nation — where the Namib desert stretches along 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) of Atlantic coastline …
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Many times, both politicians and those who back them confuse two things – voters and supporters COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru | All factors constant, which of course never happens, politics is a game of numbers. More often than not, however, one and one add up to 11 instead of the modest …
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