Category: Politics
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Reporting Under Museveni’s Darkness
On January 11, Facebook shut down accounts suspected to be pushing the governing National Resistance Movement’s propaganda. To retaliate, President Yoweri Museveni ordered the complete shutdown of Facebook in Uganda.
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Wambora Gets The Last Laugh
Whether you are for or against the 69 year old, you have to give the Embu Governor his due. As he embarks on his new role as CoG, with the possibility of winning a second and final term, observers will be keen to see whether legal and political challenges will follow Wambora into his new…
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Hurtling Towards The 2022 Abyss
As the country gets into premature presidential election campaigns, signs that the country is steadily but surely hurtling towards the early stages of the 2007/2008 nightmare are beginning to show.
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Reclaiming the Pulpit
The seeming unusualness in Rev. Wainaina’s delivery emanates from the fact that the Provost’s interpretation of the gospel isn’t hypothetically but is grounded in the context of the goings on in the country today – from grand corruption to political conmanship and brinkmanship.
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Museveni Gives Birth To A Better Version Of Himself
All indicators are that President Museveni was jittery about facing the first time MP in a free and fair contest if events preceding the elections and whatever happened on election day and thereafter are anything to go by.
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Uganda’s Election History Explained
The territory presently known as Uganda held its FIRST elections in 1957, during which exercise representatives from the Uganda Protectorate were elected into the colonial Legislative Council.
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Why The Ugandan Elections Matter
Beyond the arbitrary arrest, detention and charging of presidential candidates in the course of their campaigns, there have similarly been widespread reports of harassment, intimidation and the killing of aides and supporters.
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Why We Are Debunking BBI
Kenyans will be forgiven for being indifferent to the ongoing political theatre. The economy is limping, the pandemic is ravaging, the future looks bleak. And yet, as we’re often reminded, it is darkest before dawn. There are no prizes for guessing the cause(s) for Kenya’s darkness.
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How to count an election
2020 has the potential to be a much different election than America has seen before