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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate Nobert Mao says that his government will consider elevating Kasese into a mineral district upon his election as the Head of State. Kasese, a town north of Lake George in Western Uganda is endowed with a rich natural resource base. It was developed …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Democratic Party-DP leaders in Lwengo, Masaka and Bukomansimbi districts are hesitant to embrace the candidature of their party President-General in the forthcoming general elections. Mao is among the eleven presidential candidates who were nominated by the Electoral Commission to contest for the country’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | DP party general Nobert Mao has been dully nominated by the Electoral Commission to contest in the 2021 general elections. Norbert Mao has called for an end to tribalism in Uganda’s politics. He says that he intends to lead a campaign based on values and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party is confident on presenting its presidential candidate Nobert Mao for nomination on Tuesday afternoon. Until last week on Friday, many had thought that DP the oldest political party in the country had chickened out of 2021 elections. In the background, the party …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Differences in political ideology and brands are threatening alliances by opposition political parties ahead of the 2021 general elections. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, the presidential candidate for Alliance for National Transformation-ANT says that an alliance is not feasible at the moment because other parties have …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A shift in government priorities, occasioned by an outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, affected funding to political parties and organizations, according to the Ministry of Finance.   The funding enshrined in the Political Parties and Organizations (Amendment) Act, is contributed annually by the government towards the …

Bukomansimbi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party is entangled in yet another row, following the endorsement of a parallel leadership structure in Bukomansimbi district by Party president Nobert Mao.  The Party president administered the oath for another set of party leaders on Friday, discarding the structures inaugurated by the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party (DP) has suggested that Parliament postpones the 2021 general election until the COVID-threat of 19 is no longer a factor. They argue that in the event that the elections are not postponed, the government can consider ignoring the risk of infection …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has quashed the recent elections that were conducted by a section of Democratic party members to purportedly fill up vacant positions in the National Executive Committee. DP members led by Rajab Ssenkubuge convened a meeting on March 13, 2020, …

Masaka, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The suspended National Organizing Secretary of the Democratic Party Suleiman Kidandala has insisted on supervising the ongoing elections of party structures further compounding woes that have hit the party in recent months.    Kidandala was suspended by an extra-ordinary meeting of the Democratic Party National …