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Has Democracy Failed in Africa?

Has Democracy Failed in Africa?

Out of 15 African countries which held elections in 2016, power changed hands only eight times. That’s according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. All eyes are set for the remaining elections this year. Four of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, […]

Uganda Stuck With Museveni Because Opposition Stuck With Besigye

Uganda Stuck With Museveni Because Opposition Stuck With Besigye

Given the high growth of visits to my page during the this festive season, I will be posting daily briefs on the crisis of the opposition in Uganda which I want to blame largely on Dr. Kizza Besigye. Indeed Uganda is stuck with President Yoweri Museveni in large part because the opposition is stuck with […]

Keep Calm and Love Trump – History Tells Us Good Could Come From This

Keep Calm and Love Trump – History Tells Us Good Could Come From This

So last week, that obnoxious man Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, and one of its suavest and most intellectual leaders exited the scene. Sometimes I felt Obama was a genetically modified politician, engineered to commit no social fault. As one article […]

Uganda Yearns for Another Liberation

Uganda Yearns for Another Liberation

On Sunday while at church, an announcement was made that on January 26, there would be no lunch hour mass for it will be Liberation Day. This is where our debate should begin from. Are we genuinely liberated? If we are liberated, what are we liberated from? Who are we liberated from? Don’t we have […]

Besigye Sworn as the president of Uganda in Kampala

Besigye Sworn as the president of Uganda in Kampala

In a day of dramatic events in Kampala, on the eve of President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration, opposition leader Kizza Besigye was ‘sworn in’ as the president of Uganda. Dr Besigye running on the Forum for Democratic Change party ticket received 35.61 per cent to Museveni’s 60.62 per cent of the vote, which he rejected, claiming […]

Uganda Police arrest the President Museveni’s Top Opponents Presidents

Uganda Police arrest the President Museveni’s Top Opponents Presidents

Ugandan police on Thursday detained two of the president’s top challengers, an opposition leader and a former prime minister who last month announced he would seek the presidency. Three-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who is frequently detained over his political activities, was arrested outside his home near Kampala, the Ugandan capital, as he headed out […]

Besigye Nominated as Uganda’s Presidential Candidate

Besigye Nominated as Uganda’s Presidential Candidate

The nomination in absentia of former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Kizza Besigye for the party’s presidential flag bearer was rocked with ugly scenes yesterday as police battled his supporters. Police fired tear gas, bullets and paper spray to disperse the supporters who kept chanting anti- government slogans. During the scuffle, a police officer […]

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