Tension is running high in Kampala and Jinja over a month after President Yoweri Museveni lifted restrictions on social media and the internet imposed ahead of the 14 January election...
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Although National Unity Platform leader Bobi Wine dropped his Supreme Court challenge against the official declaration that President Yoweri Museveni had won 59% of the votes in the 14 January presidential elections he insists his party and its allies are gearing up for another season of activism...
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President Yoweri Museveni's decision to order the suspension of the European-funded Democratic Governance Facility risks further provoking the European Union into imposing sanctions against him...
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After two weeks of house arrest the military siege around opposition leader Bobi Wine's home has been gradually lifted and he responded by filing a challenge on 1 February at the Supreme Court to the election results giving President Yoweri Museveni 59% of the votes in the 14 January elections...
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After a High Court ruling on Monday (25 January) ordering police and army officers to leave Bobi Wine's home which they had surrounded since election day on 14 January his National Unity Platform is mulling its response to what it says is President Yoweri Museveni's stolen victory at the polls...
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Although President Yoweri Museveni won the presidential election with 59% of the vote on a 57% turnout according to the electoral commission over a dozen of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) government cabinet members lost their seats while Bobi Wine's (Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu) National Unity Platform took over 90% of the seats in Buganda and became the largest opposition party...
President Yoweri Museveni has been reshuffling his security chiefs after rivalries broke into the open threatening the cohesion of the state's repressive apparatus...
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Vol 61 No 21 |
- TANZANIA
- UGANDA
East Africa's leading resource nationalists – President Yoweri Museveni and John Magufuli – have signed one of Africa's biggest oil pipeline deals as they campaign fiercely in national elections...
The hopes that the political sensation Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine could rally a national alliance against President Yoweri Museveni have been thwarted by political differences...
Kizza Besigye who has challenged President Yoweri Museveni in four presidential elections says he will not run next year...
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Their relationship goes back at least to 2012 when Kagame flew in a Gainjet Gulfstream 450 to Luton airport in southern England to attend a summit on family planning alongside the then Prime Minister David Cameron Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and the US philanthropist Melinda Gates...
