DENIVA Uganda, a local NGO has added its voice to the already raised voices calling for a special independent audit into the results of the February 18th presidential polls outcome to give the country a very clear picture of what truly transpired during the whole exercise. Addressing a news conference today in Kampala, the board member, DENIVA Uganda, Rubben […]
Opposition MP Paul Mwiru who lost in recently parliamentary elections in Jinja east municipality says he is worried that their petitions will not be heard fairly if handled by the judges who were appointed by president Museveni a few days to elections. Mwiru told journalists at parliament that some of the judges will have a challenge […]
Parliament has passed the private members bill known as the Children’s Amendment bill 2015. The bill was initiated by the shadow minister for children Affairs Bernard Atiku. The passed bill says that the adoption process of children shall take one year. Under the Children’s Amendment bill 2015, legal guardianship has been limited to only Ugandan citizens. This bill […]
Human rights organizations, Foundation for Human rights Initiative (FHRI) and Women Leadership Development (WLEDE) recommend that the security personnel desist from exercising excessive power over women engaging in politics as it is one of the deterrent for other women to actively participate in politics. According to a recent report on the just concluded parliamentary elections, the human rights organizations observe that […]
Parliament resumes today for the first time since the 18th February 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections that swept many ministers and members of parliament out of parliament. MPs return to parliament from recess for the 1st sitting of the third meeting of the fifth session of the 9th parliament after spending two months in elections. The order of […]
The Chief European observer Eduard Kukan flagged off 54 short time election observers to respective areas across the country to observe voting, counting and tallying. On Election day the mission will be reinforced by a delegation of 7 Members of the European Parliament and 26 locally recruited short-term observers from the EU diplomatic community in Uganda. […]
Workers representative in parliament Theopista Nabulya Sentongo agrees with the stand by Government not to allow any export of labor to UAE until they reach a final conclusion with the government of Dubai. The two Governments started negations on the issue of exporting labor following the decision by the government of Uganda to companies from exporting labor to Dubai. The companies exporting […]
The electoral commission chairman Dr. Badru Kiggundu says the EC will not apologize to the Forum for Democratic change presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye over his statement that Besigye should have been disqualified from the presidential race on the basis of running defiant campaigns. He revealed this while raising a peace flag with the Turkish Ambassador […]
The former Tanzanian president, HE. Ali Hassan Mwinyi has launched the EAC electoral observing group today in Kampala with a call for a serious role, and free and fair electoral process by the citizens of Uganda. According to Mwinyi who also heads the EAC electoral observing group, Uganda’s going through the electoral time is a sign […]
Environmental Civil Society Organizations are castigating the agreements that were reached upon between developed countries and developing countries during the December Conference of Parties (COP)21 Paris conference which the CSOs say were not binding and fear that the developed countries will not meet their obligations as agreed upon. But the head of the climate change department […]