The Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) has expressed worry that the election violence that was exhibited during the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries may spill over into the general election. The fear was highlighted by the IPOD Council Secretary Generals who had gathered to condemn the acts of violence and argue for violence free electoral processes within political parties…
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President Museveni has once again accused Parliament of setting up huge salaries for legislators which has attracted many people leading to election violence. Museveni made the remarks while addressing the NRM Parliamentary aspirants and other officials from the districts of Mbarara, Sembabule, Isingiro, Kiruhura and Kazo following the violence that was exhibited in the areas during the party primaries. Museveni…
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Regional organizations working with traders along the borders have called upon the East African Community partner states to consider reopening up borders so as to allow cross border trade as a way of rejuvenating the lives of people that have been affected by the COVID-19 lockdown measures. In March 2020, the six EAC partner States order for the closure of…
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A section of Members of Parliament (MP) have come out to express concerns over delay by the Electoral Commission to procure the E-verification voter system as a tool to curb the malpractices and multiple voting ahead of 2021 general elections. While at the NRM party headquarters on Monday, President Museveni directed the electoral commission to first track the procurement of…
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Women’s Probono Initiative has officially closed a public interest case against a US Missionary Renee Bach in which she was accused of illegally administering treatment and causing death of two children. In 2019, the lawyers on instructions of a one Zubeda Gimbo and Annet Kakai filed a case before the High Court in Jinja under Misc Cause No. 003 of…
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Three Justices of the Court of Appeal led by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny Dollo have set free the former Tabliq Sect leader, Amir Umar Mohammed Yunus Kamoga and 5 others who had been sentenced to life and 30 years imprisonment respectively in August 2017. The Muslim clerics are now free men after the Court of Appeal overturned their conviction…
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Ruparelia Foundation through Kampala Parents’ School has today donated 10 computers to African Institute for Investigative Journalism to facilitate home-based learning as schools remain closed due to coronavirus. African Institute for Investigative Journalism is a media organization focusing on providing investigative journalism at home on the African continent. The donation was made by Rajiv Ruparelia one of the directors of…
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