Soumaila Cisse who is Mali’s top opposition leader has made it clear that he would reject the election results which he described involved accusations of fraud, violence and low turnout. Ballot counting was conducted yesterday across the vast West African country where one poll worker was reportedly killed and hundreds of stations closed due to […]
With the Kenyan general elections less than a month away and campaigns in full gear, the eight presidential candidates have prepared manifestos outlining their agendas for the next five years. The candidates are hoping to convince the people to stand by them and assure them a victory in the August 8th elections. Two of these […]
Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) President, Joseph Bbosa has confirmed that before the end of this year, the party will have held its presidential elections with a committee to lead the process yet to be named. According to Bbosa, a team from the party will soon be moving around the country meeting members to forge a […]
The nine Supreme Court judges have unanimously accepted the 5 amendments to candidate Amama Mbabazi’s petition challenging President Museveni’s re-election. The ruling read by Chief Justice Bart Katureebe comes after the Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana and lawyers representing Yoweri Museveni, objected to the amendments presented earlier by Amama Mbabazi’s legal team. Mbabazi lodged the initial […]
Six presidential aspirants for the 2016 race have expressed interest in vying for the biggest post of leadership in Uganda as they picked nomination forms from the electoral commission headquarters in Kampala today, among them being the former premier and secretary general for the ruling party, Hon. Amama Mbabazi, Prof.Venacious Baryamureba, Fredrick Kunya, John Mutono […]
Opposition MPs condemned the arrest of the former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi and Dr. Kiiza Besigye. They denounced the actions of police as the NRM party MPs celebrated Mbabazi’s blocking from going to Mbale for a consultative meeting with his supporters. The shadow Minister for Internal Affairs Mohammed Muwanga Kivumbi told parliament that the actions of […]
The leaders of Muslims communities in Uganda have congratulated the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt for having won the presidential elections. The Muslim Brotherhood member Sheikh Mohamed Morsi was on Sunday declared the new president of Egypt replacing ousted Hosni Mubarak. Sheikh Nuhuur Muzaata of the break way Muslim faction in Kampala says the Muslim community […]
In Senegal opposition won presidential elections. “Can opposition in Uganda do what the members of opposition in Senegal did?” The former spokesman of DP, Mwaka Lutukumoi whom we are told he is now a spy asks. Mwaka says that opposition parties need less bloodshed but total mobilization of grassroots voters amidst ‘bogus’ electoral Commission’ the […]
Scenes of jubilation and joy played out as hundreds of Makerere University students poured onto the Democratic Party headquarters to celebrate Democratic Party (DP) candidate Ivan Kata’s victory in the Guild Presidential elections. The students paralysed business and blocked business at city house as they descended from the university through william street. Kata won […]
The Vice Chairperson of NRM in charge of eastern region, Captain Mike Mukula has reaffirmed his commitment to contest in the 2016 Presidential elections on an independent ticket. The informers have reported to the president that Mukula is planning to take party in elections of NRM party structures but when it comes for president polls […]