UGANDAN ELECTION PUT BACK

THE date of Uganda’s presidential election has been put back by five days from March 7 to 12 after a meeting of representatives of all six candidates contesting the presidential poll. “We needed more time to hold the election as we had not printed the voter card and we had to incorporate the changes from the registers that had been displayed,” said the Electoral Commission. March 12 is the latest possible polling day allowed by law. – AFP