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Presidential Petition PRE-TRIAL Agreed facts Fact 1: There was an election conducted by the EC on February 18 2016 Fact 2: On Feb 20, 2016, President Museveni was declared as validly elected President Fact 3: On Feb 20, 2016, the petitioner was declared to have polled 1.43% of the valid …

ANALYSIS| Ghetto President Bobi Wine…And why the urban poor hate Museveni Kampala, Uganda| HAGGAI MATSIKO | Sebataka Mulyamenvu’s home in Kisenyi I village in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, is just a few metres off  Kira Road; the neat duo-carriage city road lined with beautiful storied bungalows, flower gardens, and paved walkways. If you …

By Agencies The Swiss is a career sports administrator who can cite genuine achievements as the general secretary at Uefa and whose campaign showed he is shrewdly aware of football’s political heart: self-interest Clearly competent, professional, bristling more evidently with ambition than personality, Gianni Infantino is an archetype, a polished …

By Agather Atuhaire Voters punish incumbents but experts fear what that means for Parliament Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga, Justice Minister Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, Minister of Lands Daudi Migereko, Minister of Information Jim Muhwezi, Shadow Finance Minister Geofrey Ekanya, and ranking member Emmanuel Dombo had all been in parliament for at …

By Independent Team 13 killed in clashes blamed on EC’s mishandling of results announcement During the Feb. 24 national local government elections, the returning officer of Bundibugyo Daniel Nayebare appeared determined to run a transparent operation. He allowed the results of the elections to be relayed live on a local …

By Bonnie Agea Opposition candidate can do as they wish, but finally, the political ball game stops with Museveni In 1992, just six years after capturing state power, President Yoweri Museveni invited secondary students from the Lango sub-region for a political rally at Lira Technical College. The students who were …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Almost 2,000 assault rifles plus grenade launchers and heavy machine guns were seized by an Australian warship, the navy said Monday, part of international efforts to police the seas off Somalia. Sailors from Australia’s HMAS Darwin boarded the fishing boat that was “headed towards the …

By Agnes E. Nantaba James Onen a.k.a Fatboy has been a famous presenter on radio for most of his adult life. He spoke to Agnes E Nantaba about life in the limelight Any three things we don’t know about you? After over a decade on prime time radio talking about …

By Ronald Musoke Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, the President of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) talked to Ronald Musoke about why the way science is taught in secondary school needs to change. Why do we continue seeing high failure rates in core science subjects 10 years since the government …

By Haggai Matsiko And why the urban poor hate Museveni Sebataka Mulyamenvu’s home in Kisenyi I village in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, is just a few metres off  Kira Road; the neat duo-carriage city road lined with beautiful storied bungalows, flower gardens, and paved walkways. If you go to one …