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Bobi Wine gains as Besigye, Mao, Akena kill their parties Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The 2021 general elections have come at the best time for the leaders of Uganda’s three main political parties; the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the Democratic Party (DP), and the Uganda Peoples Congress …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seguya Hillary Innocent Taylor, a Harvard university student who lost a case against President Yoweri Museveni  two months ago has turned to the East African Court of Justice for redress. Seguya, a student of International Relations at Harvard University sued the president for blocking him …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The secretary-general of the National Resistance Movement Justine Kasule Lumumba has asked the police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest any member of the National Resistance Movement [NRM] found flouting the COVID-19 guidelines. Speaking at the party headquarters, Lumumba said belonging to the ruling …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has in a missive released on Tuesday night, urged Ugandans to continue to maintain discipline in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. “After a long absence, here is my “missive” to my fellow countrymen, countrywomen and especially, the Bazukulu,” he …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has asked the government to provide an evaluation of the four months COVID-19 lockdown. In March, President Museveni announced a lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. It involved the closure of public places such as schools, worship …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has said that President Yoweri Museveni is yet to assent to the Traditional and Complementary Medicines Act, 2019, a year since it was passed by parliament. The Act was passed on 5th February 2019, and it among others …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Close to 50 arcades have so far adapted to the standard operating procedures set by the government as a precondition for their reopening. The government had maintained lockdown restrictions on arcades because of  difficulty to avoid close contact between people in the wake of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Court of Justice has dismissed with costs the consolidated cases filed by seven opposition politicians challenging the removal of the age limit law from the Ugandan constitution. The politicians are Winfred Kiiza the Kasese District Woman MP, John Baptist Nambeshe the …

  How a scientific election opens opportunities for the opposition in Uganda to perform better THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | There is a popular Chinese saying that a wise person looks for an opportunity in every problem while a stupid looks for a problem in every opportunity. …

How unscientific reality is messing up ‘scientific election’ Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On June 16 the Electoral Commission issued new guidelines for what has come to be known as “scientific elections”; a series of activities to be conducted mainly digitally via electronic media leading to the general elections …