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04 March 2011
By By Barry Malone | Reuters | Kampala ~ An Irish doctor, whose opponents mockingly referred to him as a white “ghost”, on Thursday became the first ever foreigner elected to political office in Uganda. Ian Clarke, 59, who grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland and came to Uganda as a missionary at [...]
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02 March 2011
Ugandan Presidential Elections: Ronnie Mayanja, Hosting NTV Talk Show, "Decision Uganda, 2011"
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23 February 2011
Obama ~ The United States applauds the people of Uganda for their participation in the February 18 presidential and parliamentary elections and congratulates President Yoweri Museveni on his reelection.
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20 February 2011
BBC | Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of presidential elections, extending his 25 years in power. He took 68% of the vote in Friday’s poll, the Electoral Commission announced, with his challenger Kizza Besigye on 26%. Mr Besigye alleges election fraud and has rejected the results. Mr Besigye earlier threatened to call [...]
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19 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Dispatch from Uganda ~ Here are some photos from the Uganda Presidential elections in which Museveni has a commanding lead with 68.71% of the Votes Counted. Museveni has 4,273,072 VOTES. Besigye 25.38%, with 1,578,618 VOTES. Polling Stations Counted 1,8725 out of 23,968 Polling Stations. Results are from NTV election analysis and [...]
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19 February 2011
By Tom Walsh | (CNN) ~ Ugandans voted Friday in a presidential election that could extend the term of the incumbent, who has been in power for 25 years. A new term would give President Yoweri Museveni five more years. This is the third consecutive time opposition front-runner Kizza Besigye has run against Museveni. Voters [...]
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17 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Kampala, UGANDA ~ With their Slogan, Turning on your world, NTV Uganda is changing the way news is gathered in Uganda. With an election coverage that will be sure to win an award for the best election coverage, the Network has set the bar as far as news coverage in the [...]
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17 February 2011
By Elias Biryaberema | KAMPALA (Reuters) ~ Uganda has ordered phone companies to intercept text messages with words or phrases including “Egypt”, “bullet,” and “people power” ahead of Friday’s elections that some fear may turn violent. An internal email from the state-run Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) with the order was leaked to the opposition coalition [...]
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17 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, UNAA Times Online | On February 18th 2011 Ugandans are headed to the polls to elect a new leader in what pundits have now described as the most expensive election in Uganda’s history. The campaigns brought to the surface several key issues and perhaps one area worth debating after the [...]
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17 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, UNAA Times Online | The recent events in North Africa and the debate that followed on various media outlets left me imagining about the possibility of a similar revolution in Uganda. Egypt and Uganda shared alot in common, not only does the Nile start in Uganda on it’s way to [...]
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17 February 2011
By Barry Malone ~ KAMPALA (Reuters) – Not many Ugandans expect a private audience with President Yoweri Museveni. Nor a phone call. So the ruling party’s so-called robocalling of voters has floored many ahead of Friday’s presidential poll. Political robocalls are used commonly in the United States ahead of presidential elections but are unheard of [...]
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17 February 2011
By Barry Malone ~ KAMPALA (Reuters) | President Yoweri Museveni says he might release an album after a rap he performed became a smash hit on Uganda’s radio stations and in its nightclubs. “I was very happy with the reaction of the youth because that means they are very thirsty for the music of their [...]
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15 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Dispatch from Kampala ~ Here are some snapshots of the Uganda Presidential Elections, featuring moments from the campaign trail of the 2 leading candidates, Kiiza Besigye and the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni. Ugandans head to the polls on friday to select a new president.
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15 February 2011
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandans will vote in a presidential and parliamentary elections on Friday that President Yoweri Museveni is expected to win, despite a fierce challenge from third-time rival and former ally Kizza Besigye. Apart from extending his rule to 30 years, the main prize for Museveni would be a chance to shepherd east Africa’s [...]
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14 February 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Dispatch from Kampala ~ Residents of Kampala are bracing themselves for the final week of campaigns as the Presidential candidates move into the city center in order to sell their campaign messages amidst defections of top cadres in various political parties. On the ground in Kampala, Ugandans are stocking up on [...]
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12 February 2011
By Josh Kron THE NEW YORK TIMES | Fresh battles between renegade soldiers and the Southern Sudanese military in recent days have left more than 100 people dead in Southern Sudan, sending tremors through a heavily militarized region that only days ago celebrated the final results of a referendum to separate from the rest of [...]
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09 February 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Southern Sudanese government minister was shot dead by his personal driver on Wednesday, an army spokesman said. The driver then killed himself, said Col. Philip Aguer. The cause of the shooting was not immediately clear but appears unrelated to Southern Sudan’s successful independence referendum from the north. Jimmy Lemi Milla, [...]
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09 February 2011
GULU (IRIN) – Hundreds of thousands of former internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda have registered to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on 18 February, but many doubt the outcome will improve their livelihoods. “Our cattle should be compensated [i.e. we should receive compensation for cattle losses], land mine victims are crying for [...]
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09 February 2011
KAMPALA (AFP) – The Ugandan government has created a climate of “oppression and despondency” that could spark an Egypt-style uprising, the country’s top opposition leader told AFP Wednesday, only days from elections. “I can’t tell you how many of our people are following the events internationally, in Egypt and elsewhere, but they don’t have to, [...]
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08 February 2011
KAMPALA (Reuters) – A man who ate a rat in front of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in 2005 is threatening to repeat what he says is a traditional form of protest used to bring change. John Ojim Omoding, 79, told the Daily Monitor newspaper that his grandfather ate a live rat in front of British [...]
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08 February 2011
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni over the weekend congratulated the people of southern Sudan upon attaining autonomy through the referendum that was conducted to secede from the northern part. Museveni said here on Sunday said, “I am glad we have come to the end of that big problem.” During the two decades of war between the [...]
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07 February 2011
By Fred Ojambo and Sarah McGregor | Ugandan police received “credible information” that “terrorists” are preparing to carry out attacks before national elections this month, said Major General Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police. Kayihura didn’t specify which group may be planning attacks in an e-mailed statement on Feb. 5. Uganda was hit by [...]
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19 January 2011
KAMPALA (AFP) – At least nine political “militia groups” are threatening to disrupt Uganda’s general elections next month, the country’s election chief said Wednesday. “Certain political parties and candidates have organised militia groups with the pretext of guarding their votes,” Badru Kiggundu, chair of Uganda’s Electoral Commission said.” “The following reported brigades and their leadership [...]
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17 January 2011
KAMPALA, (Reuters) | A row has broken out in Uganda over claims a son-in-law of President Yoweri Museveni offered a prominent opposition politician $630,000 to pull out of national elections next month. Francis Atugonza, a town mayor and trade spokesman for the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), says Odrek Rwabogo made the offer in [...]
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11 January 2011
KAMPALA (AFP) – Uganda’s main opposition group has threatened to pull out of next month’s general elections over rigging suspicions. “If it is clear to us that this election is a completely hopeless process, we could still pull out at any time,” presidential candidate Kizza Besigye said Monday while recording a televised electoral debate. Besigye, [...]
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05 January 2011
Yahoo News | KAMPALA (AFP) – Uganda’s parliament, dominated by ruling party loyalists, has granted the President’s office extra emergency funds one month ahead of a presidential election, opposition lawmakers said Wednesday. Parliament approved a request from President Yoweri Museveni’s office that more than doubled the amount initially assigned to the presidency in the country’s [...]
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