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Daily Monitor Saturday February 06 2021 People take cover as police fires teargas to disperse a campaign rally in Mukono District on November 30. PHOTO/FILE Advertisement This signifies 59.35 per cent of the registered voters. In discussing the outcome of the elections and trying to explain the voting patterns, Dr Julius Kizza, a lecturer of Political Science at Makerere University, says the patterns appear to have been informed by the level of political awareness. “Rural voters who are predominantly poverty-stricken peasants voted for a presidential monarchy. By contrast, the urban-based v...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 24 2021 Summary With both presidential and parliamentary elections concluded, Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering. Advertisement Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering. FDC When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) honchos sit down to do a forensic analysis of the recent elections, the outcome will be straightforward: not what they wanted. For the first time since elections were organised under the multiparty dispensation, the FDC party has lost its ...

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 during campaigns, laid out what he claimed was a vision he has for not only East Africa but Africa a...

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“My arrest on December 30 in Kalangala District proved to me the saying that a dead journalist can...

Daily Monitor Tuesday January 12 2021 This photo taken on January 12, 2021 shows former presidential contender Dr Kizza Besigye addressing journalists at Hotel Africana in Kampala as presidential candidates Patrick Amuriat, Mugisha Muntu and Robert Kyagulanyi look on. PHOTO/ ABUBAKER LUBOWA Summary Mr Amuriat also asked Ugandans to protect their vote before urging the Electoral Comission to ensure that the January 14 poll is free and fair. Advertisement Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr Kizza Besigye has lauded opposition presidential candidates for bracing brutality mete...