Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement has now secured a seat in the Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA council, thanks to a win by James Mukooza, a representative of the Kampala male elderly. Mukooza polled 13 votes to defeat independent candidate Hajji Juma Bbosa who got seven votes …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM party has won in four municipalities in Ankole. It won in Sheema, Ibanda, Ntungamo and Ishaka-Bushenyi municipality. Ibanda district returning officer, Danson Kamusiime Ruhemba announced Apollo Twine Kibeherere of the NRM party who was the interim mayor and was elected mayor …
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And why knock-out failed Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH WERE | President Yoweri Museveni won re-election for a sixth five-year term in the Jan.14 elections. He took 58.64% of the vote, way ahead of his nearest challenger; the Kyadondo East MP, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine who ran on the …
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He should be harmonising and reconciling a divided country, say critics Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Why exactly did President Yoweri Museveni sound angry just hours after being announced winner of the Jan.14 presidential election? Museveni, 76, beat 10 other contestants including a 25 year old novice. Museveni …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nicholas Kafeero, one of the survivors of the recent Nassana shooting is in pain with a bullet still stuck in his chest. Two weeks ago, a Uganda People’s Defense Force-UPDF soldier shot dead five people and injured four others critically. Lance Corporal Denis Omara, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobilisers in Mukono district have asked the party leaders not to attribute the party’s loss to Buganda. Following the poor performance of the NRM in Kampala for Presidential and MP polls, President Museveni said in a televised national address …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister for Presidency Esther Mbayo has asked the Catholic Church and Buganda Kingdom to stick to their core roles instead of meddling in politics. “Everybody should concentrate on what they are supposed to do. If you are the church concentrate on that, and if …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The defeated Kasese LC V chairperson Sibendire Bigogo Geoffrey of the Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party says the defeat in the parliamentary and local government council elections will strengthen the party. Bigogo on Wednesday lost the LC V seat to NRM’s Muhindi Bukombi Eliphaz …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldiers are under the spotlight for meddling in the just concluded local government elections in Bukomansimbi district. Residents accuse soldiers of disrupting the election to favour National Resistance Movement-NRM candidates. According to residents, armed soldiers raided polling stations in different parts …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Erastus Kibirango, the National Unity Platform candidate has emerged winner of the Luweero district chairperson’s race, further widening the party’s base in an area hitherto known as a stronghold of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party. Kibirango polled 44,206 of the total votes cast to …
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