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Daily Monitor Friday January 15 2021 Summary Mr Peter Mulira says: Moshi is the immediate cause of our present predicament where the gun is the master.   Advertisement One Thursday afternoon in March 1979, Robert Sebunnya, presently the Presidential Adviser on Buganda Affairs, came to me in Nairobi to inform me that I had been selected to be in the delegation of one of the Anti-Amin groups at the Moshi Conference. The Moshi Conference of all anti-Amin Ugandan groups was a brain-child of Presi...

Land Security for Rural Women January 13, 2021 By Agnes Mirembe and Sylvia Nalubega | ARUWE Uganda Women in their rice farm securing their production for food and income. Photo by Francis Matovu, ARUWE Uganda 2019. Nagawa, a 39-year-old farmer in Kasubi village, Gayaza Sub County in Kyankwanzi district Uganda awoke to the total destruction of her three-acre maize garden. She had received a loan of 500,000 Uganda shillings ($135) to set up her garden. The loss of food and potential income was de...

Five things to know about Uganda Top Searches Five things to know about Uganda AFP / Jan 14, 2021, 09:46 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail Security forces patrol the streets near opposition leader Bobi Wine headquarters in Kampala, Uganda KAMPALA: Ugandans go to the polls Thursday to choose a president and lawmakers in the countrys general election. Here are five things to know about the East African nation: Uganda is landlocked, straddling the equator roughly 800 kilometres (500 miles) inland...

Daily Monitor Thursday January 14 2021 A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda on January 14, 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP Summary The voting was set to begin at 7am and end at 4pm, according to the Electoral Commission (EC). The central region together with the capital Kampala account for 5.6 million voters. Five of the presidential candidates hail from the western region. Museveni has, in each of the past five elections organised by his government since 1996, won in the ...

The East African Thursday January 14 2021 Billboards of Ugandas President Yoweri Museveni who is running for his 6th presidential term are seen on a street in Kampala, Uganda, on January 4, 2021. PHOTO | AFP Summary President Yoweri Museveni, who took power at the head of a rebel army in 1986, has tried to position himself as something of a regional statesman and peace broker. Uganda has a long history of accepting refugees from over its borders, and hosts more civilians fleeing persecution tha...

THE STANDARD By Judah Ben-Hur | January 14th 2021 at 12:41:12 GMT +0300 Activist and Businessman David Matsanga. [File, Standard] Ugandan activist David Matsanga has painted a gloomy picture for the country as they engage in their most competitive poll in 34 years.  Speaking to KTN News on Thursday, Matsanga, the Chairman for the Pan African forum, hinted at the possibility of a lower voter turnout than that of 2016 which saw 60 per cent of registered voters cast their vote. Elections billbo...

Daily Monitor Thursday January 14 2021 The wall of Ugandas Electoral Commission in Kampala, Uganda on January 4, 2021 describes how to mark a ballot paper. Summary The first kind of general election to be held in Uganda was organised by the British Colonialists in 1961. In April 1962, the second election organised under the parliamentary system was held. UPC won 37 of the 82 seats in Parliament, followed by DP with exclusion of Buganda with 24 seats. The 1996 General Election was the first unde...

Daily Monitor Thursday January 14 2021 Advertisement Voting in the opposition stronghold of Masaka has been delayed this morning as the country goes to the polls. Despite delay in delivery of election material to polling stations, the Electoral Commission is yet to clarify if voting times will be extended. The delay comes at a time when the communications regulator ordered the suspension of all internet gateways from Wednesday. There are many of reports of failing biometric voter verification k...

Bobi Wine, the ghetto president rattling Ugandas Museveni AFP 1/13/2021 AFP © SUMY SADURNI Bobi Wine has been arrested numerous times since 2018 and says he was sometimes tortured Ten years ago, ragga singer Bobi Wine, sporting dreadlocks and oversized black sunglasses, regularly appeared in music videos surrounded by women, driving a Cadillac with a joint hanging out of his mouth. Today the star, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is an MP dressed in dark, tailored suit...

Bobi Wine (right) is the closest challenger of President Yoweri Museveni (left) [File: Reuters] Ten years ago, ragga singer Bobi Wine, sporting dreadlocks and oversized black sunglasses, regularly appeared in music videos surrounded by women, driving a Cadillac with a joint hanging out of his mouth. Today the star, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is an MP dressed in dark, tailored suits who is fighting to become president of Uganda in Thursday’s election. The 38-year-old former pop star...