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By Isaac Mufumba But opposition lacks candidates to fill the gap in the troubled constituencies In the run up to the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in January 2010, a group of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) elite vigorously lobbied for support against a motion to introduce universal adult suffrage …

By Isaac Mufumba The party has no budget, trading arm or known financiers Seven years after the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) was registered as a political party, it has no annual budget nor a clear financial system to guide expenditures on its activities. The NRMs Deputy Spokesman Ofwono Opondo’s …

Situation may get worse in 2011 when opposition enters race Kampala, Uganda | BY THE INDEPENDENT TEAM | Dan Mugarura, the Chairman for Electoral Affairs of the main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), is a very worried man. ‘If you can shoot your own child and wife, …

By Bob Roberts Katende   Between June 25 and 26, the NRM party delegates from across the country draped in yellow outfits gathered at the Mandela National Stadium Namboole for their National Conference. The conference reviews the party’s performance and strategic planning for the future. Instead, the conference ended up …

By Independent Team   Top party chiefs plot his downfall Shs7.5bn for delegates sparks chaos at Namboole conference  The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General, Amama Mbabazi, has shown that he has the proverbial nine political lives, but it will take more than that for him to shed off the …

By Isaac Mufumba Last week members parliament went native. They nearly had a fist-fighting in the House. The opposition MPs broke a door of the parliament to force themselves inside after being blocked from re-entering the House where they had walked out to protest the Deputy Speakers refusal to allow …

By Independent Team Justice Kanyeihamba opposes political party representatives for EC This March might turn out to be the most important month in the run up to the February 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections. Whether the 2011 outcome will be good or bad depends on the outcome of four Bills …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati An inside look at thetop positions in most government bodies While opening the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party National Executive Council meeting at State House Entebbe on January 12, President Yoweri Museveni warned delegates that his government will not tolerate anybody propagating and practising sectarianism. ‘We …

By Independent Reporters Members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) chapter in the USA spent what was supposed be a gala evening crestfallen when President Yoweri Museveni cancelled his attendance at the last minute. Museveni’s absence however did not deter some Ugandans from holding placards and demonstrating for most of …

By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori Following the September 7-12 riots that rocked the city and its suburbs after the police stopped the Kabaka from visiting Kayunga, The Independent sought views from prominent Baganda and other senior citizens on what this violence means for the NRM-Buganda relations and how best the …