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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has vowed to canvass for votes in districts where political campaigns were banned by the Electoral Commission. On Saturday, Electoral Commission suspended campaign meetings of all categories of elections in 16 districts and cities in …

Kalangala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform-NUP party coordinators in Kalangala District are uncertain about the campaigns of the party’s presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi in the area. According to the Electoral Commission’s campaign schedule, Kyagulanyi is expected to campaign in the district, but coordinators led by Rajab Ssemakula note …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Elders and cultural leaders in the nine districts that constitute the Karamoja region in the north eastern Uganda have demanded to have a  meeting with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over land grabbing. The elders say they would like President Museveni to explain to them why …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Forum for Democratic Change –FDC party leaders and candidates in Kasese District have protested the suspension of mass political campaign activities in the district.  On Saturday, the EC suspended campaign meetings of all categories of elections in 16 districts and cities in the country due …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Medical workers are calling for the revision of the screening protocol for COVID-19. They want the health ministry to remove screening for temperature. According to the medics, high temperature should not be the most relied upon symptom of COVID-19 because the majority of COIVD-19 positive …

Lwengo, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate Retired Lieutenant General Henry Tumukunde Kakurugu has asked opposition supporters to form a joint votes protection taskforce to fail any attempts of rigging in the forthcoming general election. Tumukunde says in the previous elections, the opposition had few candidates who could hardly deploy …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party has suspended its campaigns in the Eastern region after Patrick Amurait, the party’s presidential candidate was hospitalized.  Amurait was admitted at Bugiri hospital on Monday after he was pepper-sprayed by police.  He was heading to Tororo district through …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) has cancelled the 2021 Presidential debate. The debate was originally scheduled for 3rd and 4th January 2021. Last month, IRCU postponed the debates citing lack of funds and the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, Joshua Kitakule, the Secretary-General IRCU says that …

Kalungu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP has rejected the police’s report on the death of one of the body guards to presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.   Francis Ssentaza Kalibbala, died on Sunday after he was allegedly involved in an accident at Busega roundabout while escorting an ambulance …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Senior officials of the World Health Organisation have warned that  there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.  In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, …