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Entebbe NRM chairman shot dead during vote rigging protests January 26, 2021 Some of the protestors The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) chairman of Katabi-Kitubulu village in Entebbe, Eric Kyeyune has been shot dead this morning during a joint NRM-Democratic Party protest over alleged vote-rigging. Kyeyune was allegedly shot dead by the presidential guards, Special Forces Command (SFC) while protesting with other voters in the same area ov...

Daily Monitor Monday January 25 2021 Summary The congress man says Mr. Museveni’s tactics towards those who advocate for an inclusive democracy is dangerous & must be addressed by the global community. Advertisement The Majority leader of the U.S House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer has joined the growing list of U.S congressmen and activists to condemn the continued use of Uganda police and the army in partisan politics. “The Ugandan government continues to use state security in a partisa...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Summary One of the things Mr Museveni was angry about is sectarianism, and he said that Opposition politicians who are promising a new Uganda were instead introducing an old Uganda, which discriminated against Ugandans on the grounds of their tribes and religion. Advertisement President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni was clearly not happy when he addressed the nation on January 16 just hours after the Electoral Commission declared him the winner of the 2...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 An SFC commando in training. Human rights activists have petitioned an Israeli court to stop the Israeli government from selling arms to SFC particularly the Galil-Ace and Tavor assault rifles (inset). PHOTO / COURTESY. Summary The activists in the petition further detailed several quotes from President Museveni’s speeches over the last five years justifying use of force against civilians. Advertisement An Israeli court is on February 15 scheduled to start...

Elections

INSIDE THE TALLY CENTRE Inside the university, there was the security tent and two other big tents; one used as the tallying centre and the other for catering services. Behind the tents were several containers used as bedrooms for several commissioners and commission department heads. Temporary toilets supplied by Photogenix were all visible. The men and women at the entrance made sure persons entering had negative Covid-19 test results. About 50 metres from the first roadblock at the entrance,...

Uganda: Tension mounts as Museveni turns the screw Facebook Epajjar Ojulu reports from Kampala. Tension continues to grip Uganda in the aftermath of the controversial Presidential and parliamentary poll on 14 January. Massive arrests of opposition supporters and polling agents have been reported across the country. On Sunday soldiers gunned down two opposition supporters in the south-western Masaka district. Army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso told the media that the victims were fomenti...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 NUP candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (centre) is blocked by the army as he enters Kasese District in December 2020. Summary At the time of his emergence, analysts believed that NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi’s strength lay in the fact that he was relatively cleaner, at least politically, and unencumbered by the past. In a space of less than five years, he led demonstrations, came face to face with death on at least two occasions and was arrested o...

Daily Monitor Saturday January 16 2021 National Unity Platform party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (left atop car), and wife Barbara wave to the people of Kisoro during campaigns in the district on December 16,2020.Inset is Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOWA Advertisement After being in power for 35 years, President Museveni – at least officially – doesn’t show any sign that he is about to stop. Mr Museveni, who has tweaked his name to add Tibuhaburwa ...

Daily Monitor Friday January 15 2021 Journalists flee from teargas as they covered campaigns in Kampala on October 23. On several occasions, journalists were targeted as security clashed with presidential candidates and their supporters. PHOTO / ABUBAKER LUBOWA Summary From being jailed to getting teargassed, Daily Monitor reporters saw it all as they covered presidential candidates who have traversed the country for votes over the last two months. Advertisement My arrest was the turning point...