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Catch all the news about Uganda’s presidential, parliamentary and local council elections.
A meeting between Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, his son, advisor and leader of the MK Movement, has become a talking point after photos from the convention. This State House meeting between Museveni and his son Gen Kainerugaba’s MK Movement Central Executive Committee (CEC) members is some sort of moment of truth for Ugandans and observers closely following the debate on transition and or succession from the nearly four decades of the NRA/NRM rule.
The fallout between Namyalo and Kitata is said to have been occasioned by some sort of power struggle between the two prominent ONC officials, with the PRO reportedly working to outshine his boss. Some reports even indicated that Kitata had attempted to meet Gen Museveni who was shocked and called Namyalo to understand why she sent the Lwengo LCV boss to represent her for an important meeting with the country’s number one.
It was, therefore, not surprising that social media tried to drag Che Otafiire, one of Kahinda Otafiire’s son, into the 2026 presidential race. Che is a soldier – just like his father, Museveni and his son Muhoozi.
Uganda will host the first East African Post-Election Conference, the African Electoral Alliance (AEA), which is organizing the event, has announced.
Officials at National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala have expressed their disappointment with the way Makerere University is handling students’ guild presidential elections for 2023-2024 after two of the main opposition party’s candidates were disqualified from the guild race.
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election.
A day after Philip Oucor, the official candidate of National Resistance Movement (NRM), lost the Serere County byelection, Capt Mike Mukula, the party’s National Vice Chairperson for Eastern Uganda, has rubbished allegations by the the ruling party’s Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Dr Tanga Odoi that his actions cost the NRM victory.
Emmanuel Omoding, son to former MP Patrick Okabe, has been elected Serere County MP, replacing his father who died in December 2022.
National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has reacted on court rulings favouring Mityana District Woman MP Jocyce Bagala, and his brother Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu.