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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political leaders in Uganda have expressed their concerns about unequal access to the media and police brutality as the country prepares for 2021 general elections. The politicians demand the leadership of the Uganda’s Electoral Commission to engage in dialogue on how to run political campaigns. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Resistance Movement- NRM Electoral Commission officials in Sembabule district have found a hard time to present results from the parliamentary party primaries. Three top contenders for parliamentary party tickets in the district have rejected the poll results saying they are doctored. They are …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There were chaotic scenes at the NRM Electoral Commission in Kampala early today as police battled with a candidate who wanted his opponent’s candidature cancelled. Charles Ocaya, a candidate in the NRM primaries for Chwa West constituency in Kitgum district was forcefully evicted from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Candidates from the National Unity Platform-NUP have boycotted a re-run of parish youth elections in parts of Kabalagala, a suburb of Kampala. The candidates said they could not take part in a process that is characterised by chaos. The NUP candidates had invited their …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission-EC has cancelled the elections for leaders of the parish youth committees in Entebbe Division B over chaos. The Division has three parishes which include Kigungu, Kiwafu and Lugonjo-Nakiwogo. On Wednesday, the village youth committee leaders from the division were expected to vote …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Tanga Odoi, the chairperson of the NRM Electoral Commission has said that candidates involved in election violence risk being disqualified from the party primaries. Speaking to journalists at the NRM Electoral Commission at Plot 13 Kyadondo road in Kampala on Tuesday, Odoi said …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Democratic Party (DP) President Norbert Mao has announced that the party will meet the nomination fees for all its flag bearers and also print campaign posters for them. But there is a catch. DP secretary general Gerald Siranda says that anybody who will be …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Retired Captain Ruhinda Maguru on Friday picked presidential nomination forms. Dressed in a yellow shirt, dark blue trousers and a dark blue tie with white dots, Maguru arrived at the Electoral Commission offices. Maguru came to light in 2010 when he filed a petition in …

Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The display of the National Resistance Movement- NRM party register in Luweero district has failed to start. On Thursday, the Deputy Chairperson of National Resistance Movement Electoral Commission John Arimpa Kigyagi announced that the display of the register will start today and end on Tuesday …