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Africa
Technical hitches and delays mar Uganda polls
Bobi Wine told reporters in Kampala that the Electoral Commission (EC) officials may have deliberately tampered with the kits to interfere with the voter identification process.
By Agencies
5h ago
Polls closed in Uganda on Thursday after a chaotic day of voting that took place under an internet blackout as President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his 40 years in power.
By AFP
10h ago
By Rosa Agutu
13h ago
By Fred Kagonye
16h ago
Museveni, 81, is widely expected to win a seventh term in office thanks to his total control of the state and security apparatus.
By AFP
17h ago
The Fongoli females are the only documented animals in the world to regularly hunt with tools, fashioning branches into spears for killing smaller primates known as a bush babies.
By AFP
18h ago
Polling stations in several parts of Uganda were still not open in many areas almost two hours after voting was due to start, AFP journalists and local sources said Thursday.
By AFP
20h ago
Still haunted by the tyrannical reign of Idi Amin, Uganda has been involved in several civil wars and regional conflicts since achieving independence from Britain in 1962.
By AFP
20h ago
Uganda is on edge as polls opened on Thursday, with President Yoweri Museveni expected to extend his 40-year rule amid an internet shutdown and a police crackdown on the opposition.
By AFP
21h ago
Heavy security, arrests, internet shut down and suspension of civil society groups mar exercise.
By Robert Kituyi
21h ago
During his bush war era, Museveni was insistent that Uganda needed a clean break from leaders who mistook the state for themselves and that power belonged to the people.
By Jacinta Mutura
23h ago
Uganda’s opposition Party, National Unity Platform (NUP) has alleged a plot to rig the Thursday elections, citing multiple irregularities just hours before polls open.
By Denis Omondi
1d ago
The United States said Tuesday it would end a special protected status for Somalis, telling them they must leave the country by mid-March under an escalating crackdown.
By AFP
2d ago
Since Israel recognised Somaliland, the self-declared republic on the Gulf of Aden has become central to a struggle over military access, ports and regional influence across the Red Sea corridor.
By AFP
2d ago
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