DISPATCHES
After two weeks of house arrest the military siege around opposition leader Bobi Wine's home has been gradually lifted and he responded by filing a challenge on 1 February at the Supreme Court to the election results giving President Yoweri Museveni 59% of the votes in the 14 January elections...
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DISPATCHES
After a High Court ruling on Monday (25 January) ordering police and army officers to leave Bobi Wine's home which they had surrounded since election day on 14 January his National Unity Platform is mulling its response to what it says is President Yoweri Museveni's stolen victory at the polls...
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Although President Yoweri Museveni won the presidential election with 59% of the vote on a 57% turnout according to the electoral commission over a dozen of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) government cabinet members lost their seats while Bobi Wine's (Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu) National Unity Platform took over 90% of the seats in Buganda and became the largest opposition party...
President Yoweri Museveni has been reshuffling his security chiefs after rivalries broke into the open threatening the cohesion of the state's repressive apparatus...
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Vol 61 No 21 |
- TANZANIA
- UGANDA
East Africa's leading resource nationalists – President Yoweri Museveni and John Magufuli – have signed one of Africa's biggest oil pipeline deals as they campaign fiercely in national elections...
The hopes that the political sensation Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine could rally a national alliance against President Yoweri Museveni have been thwarted by political differences...
Kizza Besigye who has challenged President Yoweri Museveni in four presidential elections says he will not run next year...
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Their relationship goes back at least to 2012 when Kagame flew in a Gainjet Gulfstream 450 to Luton airport in southern England to attend a summit on family planning alongside the then Prime Minister David Cameron Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and the US philanthropist Melinda Gates...
For her opponents including Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni she continues to take the stance of the civil society activist instead of adapting to international protocols (AC Vol 54 No 11 Talking Tinyefuza)...
Vol 61 No 13 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Group's report has clearly riled Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...
Last year President Uhuru Kenyatta allocated to both Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardiit land in Naivasha to construct their own dry ports...