Camaraderie, hope and despair on Ugandan election day
ALICE McCOOL DESPITE a presidential campaign marked by homophobic rhetoric, LGBT+ Ugandans turned out to vote yesterday, with many hoping
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Internet blackout in Uganda
NITA BHALLA UGANDA’S ban on social media days before presidential elections shows a rattled president flexing power over the Internet
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Why Uganda’s ban on open-air campaigns could tilt the 2021 poll in Museveni’s favour
UGANDA is going to conduct its first digital and mass media campaigns ahead of its 2021 general elections. This comes
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Uganda bans social media ahead of election
UGANDA has banned social media, two days ahead of a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders,
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Facebook takes down Ugandan pro-Museveni accounts
FACEBOOK has taken down a network in Uganda linked to the country’s ministry of information for using fake and duplicate
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Uganda’s police chief: ‘beating of reporters for their own good’
UGANDA has space in its prisons to cope with any spike in arrests during next week’s presidential election and the
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Anti-gay rhetoric ramps up fear among LGBT+ Ugandans ahead of polls
HOMOPHOBIC comments by Uganda’s president and other politicians are making some LGBT+ Ugandans too scared to vote in elections scheduled
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Uganda opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine arrested, police fire teargas at protesters
UGANDA opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested in Kalangala in
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Uganda’s schooling system doesn’t politically empower young people
MORE than 20 years ago, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that: The lack of education stops a
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Uganda’s Bobi Wine released on bail as protest death toll rises to 37
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDAN pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at
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