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- The home of NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi is under siege, according to NUP officials. The party's treasurer, Benjamin Katana, has also criticised the Electoral Commission for announcing results without specifying their polling stations.
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- Sarah Bireete remanded until after elections
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- 18 days ago
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- Ms Sarah Bireete, Director of the Center for Constitutional Governance, has been charged with unlawfully obtaining and disclosing national voters' data without Electoral Commission consent.
She has been remanded until January 21,2026
📹Abubaker Lubowa #MonitorUpdates
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- Your votes will be stolen if you go home after voting- NRM candidate
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- 20 days ago
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- "Don't go home after casting your ballot. Stay at least 20 metres away from the polling station. We have many people waiting to steal your votes. If you go home, it means they will come and steal it (the election). I'm calling upon the people of Isingiro not to go home after voting,"- NRM flag bearer for Isingiro District Woman MP seat, Ms Lilian Ruteraho.
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#UgandaDecides2026
📹 Julius Byamukama
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- Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is not a god, EC boss Simon Byabakama should be embarrassed- Miria Matembe
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- 24 days ago
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- WATCH: "What right does the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba have to enter the office of the Electoral Commission and give orders? Why should he think he's a god in this country? As for the chairman of the Electoral Commission [Justice Simon Byabakama], he should be ashamed and embarrassed. He knows all the laws. He was DPP, he was a judge, he knows what free and fair means, and he knows what elections mean. What right does he have to tell Ugandans not to enjoy the one single right they are exercising?"- former Ethics and Integrity Minister, Ms Miria Matembe.
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#UgandaDecides2026
📹Cosline Nakahiira
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- Byabakama receives presidential ballot papers ahead of Jan 2026 polls
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- 26 days ago
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- Officials from the Electoral Commission, led by their chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama at Entebbe International Airport to receive the presidential ballot papers for the 2026 General Election.
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#UgandaDecides2026
📹Abubaker Lubowa
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- IPOD condemns electoral violence
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- 27 days ago
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- "As the IPOD, we stand together and support candidates whose ideas are to create stability in Uganda, peaceful security, development, wealth creation, economic growth, empowerment, job creation, service delivery, market and commercialisation, as well as strategic governance. We condemn the violence that has been recorded in the various parts of the country as we move forward to end the campaigns."- the Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) Council Chairperson and DP Secretary General, Gerald Siranda, in a joint statement with a section of political parties that subscribe to the organisation.
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#UgandaDecides2026
📹Busein Samilu
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- Bobi Wine reads Kabaka's Christmas message to supporters
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- 28 days ago
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- Supporters react as National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, arrives at Tanda grounds in Entebbe Municipality to address a campaign rally. Earlier, he read the Kabaka's Christmas message to supporters at Makindye-Ssabagabo in Wakiso District.
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- Priest abducted by UPDF finally brought to court, remanded till next year
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- 28 days ago
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- Fr Deusdedit Ssekabira's case to be forwarded to the Anti-Corruption Court, says his lawyer, Alexander Lule.
Fr Ssekabira, who has been missing for weeks following his abduction by UPDF soldiers from Masaka District early this month. He is accused of money laundering after he allegedly concealed Shs500 million, which the state claims he knew or suspected to be proceeds of crime. Nearly a fortnight after Fr Ssekabira was abducted, UPDF, through its spokesperson
@ChrisOMagezi
, admitted holding him on charges of "violent subversive activities"
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- 36 Bobi Wine supporters denied bail in Mbarara
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- 29 days ago
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- The Chief Magistrate's Court in Mbarara City has also declined to grant bail to 36 of the 38 National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters arrested on November 7, 2025, when security operatives intercepted the party's presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, as his convoy made its way to a scheduled campaign rally in Bwizibwera, Mbarara District.
The presiding grade one magistrate, Alex Baguma, said the accused persons who have been on remand for over a month do not have identification documents as a requirement under bail guidelines.
Two of their co-accused, who had been nominated as NUP candidates in Rwampara District, were recently released under unclear circumstances after they reportedly denounced the opposition party and agreed to defect to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
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#UgandaDecides2026
📹 Cosline Nakahiira
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- Kampala flooded after Monday downpour
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- 29 days ago
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- Several Streets in Kampala City have been left flooded following a downpour on Monday afternoon.
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📹Abdul-Nasser Ssemugabi
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- Court sets ruling date in Walukaga's Busiro East MP disqualification petition
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- 1 month ago
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- The High Court has set December 22 to deliver its ruling on a petition filed by NUP flagbearer for Busiro East parliamentary seat, Mathias Walukagga, who is challenging the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to disqualify him. Walukagga argues that the EC acted without jurisdiction by reviewing and rejecting academic documents that had already been verified by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE).
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- Gen Moses Ali makes another rare public appearance
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- 1 month ago
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- Second Deputy Prime Minister and Adjumani West Constituency MP, Gen Moses Ali, appears at a public rally in Ukusijoni sub-county, marking his return after a significant absence. His arrival was met with an enthusiastic welcome from supporters, who had been actively campaigning on his behalf as he was away for treatment.
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- Nandala campaigns at night in Bushenyi, blames poor roads
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- 1 month ago
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- The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, on Wednesday campaigned at night in Bushenyi District, despite the Electoral Commission’s (EC) recommended 6pm deadline. According to the EC guidelines for the presidential elections, campaigns are to be conducted between 7am and 6pm. The guidelines require candidates and their agents to ensure all campaign activities fall within these hours.
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- Bobi Wine blocked from accessing Elegu, preaches patriotism, unity
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- 2 months ago
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- WATCH: National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, preaches unity, patriotism after being blocked from accessing Elegu border town in Amuru District, where he was scheduled to hold a campaign rally today as he looks for votes ahead of the 2026 General Election in which he's seeking to unseat President Museveni who has been in power since 1986.
"Never let anybody make you hate your country. Never get tired of loving Uganda. Even if they bring the military to you, never lose hope. Uganda is our country. Don't allow anybody to divide you."
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- Bobi Wine accuses military of confiscating his campaigns sound system
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- 2 months ago
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- "We have been campaigning under challenging conditions. Now we're heading to Nwoya and then later to Amuru. We have been informed that the army has confiscated our sound system in order to frustrate our rally in Elegu. According to the Electoral Commission programme, we're supposed to campaign in Nwoya and Amuru. During the 2021 elections, we were blocked from accessing Nwoya," National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, tells journalists before setting off for his campaign trail in Northern Uganda.
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#UgandaDecides2026
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- Controversially reconstituted General Court Martial illegal- Besigye lawyers
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- 2 months ago
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- “Brig. Gen Richard Tukachungurwa is worse than Freeman Mugabe” ~ Mr Erias Lukwago, the Kampala Lord Mayor, who doubles as incarcerated veteran opposition politician, Dr Kizza Besigye's lawyer, reacts to the new leadership of the controversially reinstated General Court Martial.
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- Several missing as boilers in Jinja wood factory burst into flames
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- 2 months ago
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- Several workers are missing at Nile Plywoods (U) Ltd factory in Jinja, a manufacturer of wooden-based panels and wood-related products in Uganda, after one of the boilers burst into flames.
The police fire brigade and other firefighters are trying to contain the raging fire that has spread in the boiler section.
Mr Nicholas Sunday, Kiira regional fire officer, says the cause of the Thursday afternoon is still a subject of the police inquest.
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- I did it! Byakagaba owns up crackdown on Bobi Wine supporters in Mbarara
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- 2 months ago
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- The Inspector General of Police Abas Byakagaba reveals that he authorised the arrest of supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential flag bearer Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by stage name Bobi Wine.
Addressing journalists on Monday at Uganda Police Force headquarters in Naguru, a Kampala suburb, IGP Byakagaba discloses that the individuals that law enforcement agencies violently arrested on November 7, 2025, had been under surveillance for alleged breaches of electoral laws and guidelines in different parts of Uganda.
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- Hundreds of NUP supporters welcome Bobi Wine to Kawempe
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- 2 months ago
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- The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, Bobi Wine welcomed by hundreds of supporters at Kawempe Growers playing ground as he starts his campaign activities in Kawempe South, Kampala.
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#UgandaDecides2026
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- Minister Jeje Odongo accuses supporters of NRM candidate of defacing his campaign posters, violence
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- 2 months ago
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- Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen (rtd) Jeje Odongo, who is fighting to retain his parliamentary seat for Orungo County in Amuria District, as an independent candidate, has decried the defacing of his campaign posters by alleged supporters of his rival, Ms Teddy Anyuk, who is the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party flagbearer. He says it had escalated into a series of violent confrontations between supporters of rival camps.
"People were now saying 'we must defend ourselves' and they were running into their houses to bring out pangas"
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📹John Ken Odele
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- Kampala salesman remanded to prison over defrauding Lucy Nakyobe Shs218 million. ⁹
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- 2 months ago
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- A 53-year-old salesman was on Friday charged before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court over allegedly defrauding a senior government official of Shs218 million under the guise of selling her land in Buikwe District.
According to the charge sheet, Kaddu and others, still at large, between 2018 and 2025 at Crested Towers in Kampala, allegedly obtained Shs218 million from Lucy Nakyobe, the Head of Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, by falsely claiming they were selling her 23 acres of land in Lugazi, Buikwe District.
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📹Juliet Kigongo
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- Kampala floods after downpour
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- 2 months ago
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- Shops, roads flooded in Uganda's capital, Kampala, following Wednesday afternoon downpour.
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- Ailing NUP's Saudah Madaada evacuated from court to Mulago hospital
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- 2 months ago
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- One of the remanded NUP supporters, Saudah Madaada, has been evacuated to hospital after her health condition deteriorated while in the holding cells of Chief Magistrate's Court in Kanyanya, Kawempe Division, Kampala where they appeared for bail application. Ms Madaada and several other opposition party supporters have been on remand for months following their arrest for staging a birthday parade for the party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, in February 2025.
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- Tororo-Busia road project affected persons protest delayed compensation
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- 2 months ago
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- Project Affected Persons (PAPS) in Busia District have blocked Busia -Tororo Road Works, protesting delayed compensation.
The protesters say they were evaluated in 2021 by UNRA and told to open bank accounts, but since then, they are yet to get their compensation after the government evicted them from part of their land for the road works.
The victims are from the villages of Kateke, Amagoro, Okame Amagoro, Kareu, Okame Abochet, Abochet A and B, Agoriata and Akipeneti all in Buteba Sub-county, Busia District.
The protest paralyzed tarmacking works for hours , forcing the police and ministry of works officials to intervene.
📹David Awori.
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- Minister Musa Ecweru withdraws from Amuria MP race
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- 2 months ago
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- State Minister for Works, Mr Musa Francis Ecweru, has formally withdrawn from the Amuria County parliamentary contest, ending weeks of political tension and speculation in the district.
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- Ssenyonyi denies getting service award, claims Mpuuga and other commissioners bagged Shs400m each
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- 3 months ago
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- "I have been informed that some weeks back, the 4 commissioners of Parliament ( Solomon Silwany, Hon Esther Afoyochan, Prossy Akampulira Mbabazi & Mathias Mpuuga) received a second service award of 400m shs each, which was channeled through the Parliamentary SACCO so as to avoid having a clear paper trail. This money, apparently, was intended to see them through the campaign season"- Joel Ssenyonyi
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- KCCA boss inspects water-flooded shops in Kampala
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- 3 months ago
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- "Our technical team is on ground to assess the extent of the damage and thereafter will submit its report to the relevant authorities which will inform our next step," says KCCA executive director, Hajjat Sharifah Buzek after leading a team from the Authority to inspect shops that were flooded following Friday morning downpour.
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📹Ibrahim Kavuma
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- Uganda receives 60,000 voter verification machines ahead of 2026 polls
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- 3 months ago
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- Uganda's Electoral Commission last night received a consignment of 60,000 biometric verification machines that will be used in the 2026 General Election. The EC chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, says the machines will be used to verify voters to avoid ballot stuffing, which has bedevilled previous elections.
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#UgandaDecides2026
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- What Gen Muntu will do for Kalangala people if voted into power
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- 3 months ago
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- The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Maj Gen (rtd) Gregory Mugisha Muntu, today held a series of rallies in the Ssese Islands, Kalangala District, where he met with residents as he canvassed for votes ahead of the 2026 General Election.
Mr Muntu began his tour in Bugoma, located in Mugoye Sub-county, where he assured locals of his commitment to improving water transport and eradicating the deep-rooted corruption affecting the nation.
During his visit, he also highlighted plans to enhance both education and healthcare services in the region.
General Muntu strongly condemned widespread corruption, as well as armed personnel who abuse their authority by violating citizens' rights.
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- Dropped IGG Beti Kamya's next move
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- 3 months ago
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- “There is no job that doesn't have challenges. Even the job of the IGG has many challenges, but I think the biggest challenge is being under-resourced. That institution needs to be properly resourced,” said Beti Kamya, the former IGG, after her thanksgiving prayer service at Mackay Church of Uganda.
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- Kampala paralysed as revellers throng streets to mark city carnival after seven-year hiatus
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- 3 months ago
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- Business and traffic paralysed in Kampala as KCCA executive director, Sharifah Buzeki, leads a procession from Buganda Road to Kololo Independence Ground as part of the city carnival activities. The annual festival returned on Sunday after a seven-year hiatus.
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- TECH WAVE: Cloud computing
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- 4 months ago
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- Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics—over the internet (“the cloud”). It allows users and businesses to access and store data, run applications, and manage resources without needing physical hardware or infrastructure on-site. This model offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, making it ideal for everything from small startups to large enterprises.
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- How KOICA Projects Transformed Quality Health Care Services in Buyende
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- 5 months ago
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- Ep 6 #Election26
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- 7 months ago
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- In Episode 6 of #Election26, NMG journalists continue to share their perspectives and lessons in the different elections they have covered so far.
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- #Election26 - Episode4
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- In Episode 4 of #Election26, NMG journalist Derrick Wandera continues to share his firsthand recollections from the Jinja, Bugiri, and Arua by-elections — the drama and the surprises.
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- Election 26- Ep 2
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- 7 months ago
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- In Episode 2 of #Election26, NMG journalist Jeff Twesigye recounts how his colleagues went missing and how he narrowly escaped the violence that broke out during the chaotic 2018 Arua Municipality by-election. #MonitorUpdates
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- Election 26- Ep 1
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- 7 months ago
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- Election 26- Episode 1: In mid-August 2018, Independent candidate Kassiano Wadri and his main rival, the NRM’s Nusura Tiperu, were locked in a hot contest for the Arua Municipality seat, to replace the late Ibrahim Abiriga, who had been gunned down in Kampala, leaving the Arua Parliamentary seat vacant. At the tail end of the electoral campaigns, which drew the backing of President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling NRM party and Robert Kyagulanyi of the People Power movement, chaos broke out in Arua over the alleged stoning of the Presidential convoy. The events that unfolded that fateful evening sent aftershocks that reverberated for a long time. Join our team of journalists who were there and now bring you a recollection of those events and how they have impacted news coverage since.
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- Stop provoking security operatives, Bishop Odoki tells journalists, Opposition
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- 10 months ago
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- Rt Rev Sabino Ochan Odoki, the Bishop of Arua Catholic Diocese, suggests that the brutality meted out on journalists and opposition politicians by security operatives is a result of provocation.
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- Katanga murder: Defence lawyer grills prosecution witness
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- 2 years ago
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- Nakivubo stadium reopened in style
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Nakivubo war memorial stadium was reopened on June 1, 2024 amid fireworks and performances from several musicians in Uganda after nearly seven years of rehabilitation by businessman Hamis Kiggundu
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- Mathias Mpuuga should be removed, he has no integrity- Minister Namuganza
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- 2 years ago
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- According to State Minister for Housing, Ms Persis Namuganza, if there was a referendum about Parliament, Ugandans would vote to abolish the legislative body which has become “a shame and an embarrassment” to all citizens
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- Section of Soroti leaders threaten to block Bobi Wine over UK sanctions against Speaker Among
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- 2 years ago
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- A section of community leaders in Soroti City, Eastern Uganda have threatened to walk to Kampala and also block National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine from stepping in Teso sub region over UK sanctions against Speaker Anita Among.
On April 30, Britain announced its first-ever corruption-related sanctions against Uganda, targeting Ms Among, Ms Mary Goretti Kitutu, and Ms Agness Nandutu, both former ministers responsible for the restive mineral-rich Karamoja region. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes.
Ms Kitutu and Ms Nandutu allegedly stole a significant quantity of iron sheets from a government-funded housing initiative intended to aid vulnerable communities in Karamoja. Among was said to have benefitted from the stolen materials.
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- Fr Kasule slams politicians who betray supporters over 'small bribes'
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- 2 years ago
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- WATCH: Father Henry Kasule, the priest for Kyanukuzi parish, Lwengo District slammed politicians who betray their followers over "small bribes."
"Many people change. Politicians have let most of us down. They are so unreliable. They change over small amounts of money without minding about their followers. Please have some sense of shame. What's your value ?" Fr Kasule said during the burial ceremony of Pascal Ssekasamba, where Bobi Wine, Mathias Mpuuga, Abed Bwanika, and other politicians were in attendance to pay their respects in Masaka on May 18, 2024.
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🎥 Gertrude Mutyaba
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- Bobi Wine Vs Abed Bwanika, Mathias Mpuuga
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- 2 years ago
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- National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine versus Kimaanya-Kabonera Division MP, Dr Abed Bwanika and Nyendo/Mukungwe MP Mathias Mpuuga
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- MP Mwijukye attacked by stick-wielding goons, injured over church land fight
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- 2 years ago
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- Security operatives raid MP Derrick Nyeko's bedroom, wife says
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- NUP's Makindye East MP Derrick Nyeko's wife, Ruth Twagira Kirabo says police and the army raided her bedroom today without a clear explanation of their motive.
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- Court martials are scare crows to Uganda's freedoms- MP Ssegona
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "The Courts martial exist illegally. They do not fit anywhere within the constitutional framework of this country and therefore, have no mandate or jurisdiction to continue trying civilians and even soldiers in their establishments which they call courts. They are not courts of law. They are just ad-hoc establishments put in place as a scarecrow against freedoms. If you look at the General Court Martial it has no other business apart from trying politicians or people who express political dissent in this country (Uganda). They are just an extension of Museveni rule and NRM's coercive arm...Gen Museveni just uses it to silence political dissent"- lawyer Medard Lubega Sseggona who is representing former Nakawa Municipality MP, Michael Kabaziguruka, a respondent in a Supreme Court case filed by the Attorney General challenging the Constitutional Court judgment in which the army court was ordered to stop trying civilians on grounds that it was illegal.
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- Museveni, US ambassador discuss regional security
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- 2 years ago
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- President Museveni on Thursday met with the United States of America (USA) Ambassador to Uganda, William W Popp at State House-Entebbe to discuss his press team described as “various critical matters”, including the forthcoming population census, regional peace and stability, and socio- economic development.
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- UBOS enumerators tear appointment letters in protest ahead of national census
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- WATCH: Enumerators in Katabi town council, Wakiso District have protested saying they will not collect census data tomorrow, citing lack of facilitation and field equipment, including work IDs and jackets. They claim they were promised Shs50,000 for daily work, but their appointment letters say that the amount is for the 10 days they will be deployed to collect data.
Some of them were seen tearing their appointment letters in protest.
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- Creating hope for migrant workers
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- 2 years ago
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- Jane’s* uncle and mother knocked at every door for months to rescue her return from Saudi Arabia. The girl that had left for work was no longer reachable and her family feared for the worst.
However, despite securing several letters from the state, there was no Jane*. It was then that they were connected to Mr Charles Maina, whom they were told could be of help to them. It was later discovered that her phone had been confiscated by her boss.
When Mr Maina finally traced her, Jane’s* boss would be heard banging at the bathroom door she had hidden in from his beatings. A few minutes later, the connection was cut but not before Jane* told them that there was no hope of getting her home as her location was remote.
