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/ 23 February 2006
Ugandans flooded polling stations on Thursday to cast ballots in landmark elections dominated by a bitter battle between President Yoweri Museveni and opposition leader Kizza Besigye. Hundreds queued patiently, and not so patiently, in huge lines at many of the nearly 20 000 open-air voting centres organised for the nation’s first multi-party elections in 26 years.
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/ 27 January 2006
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni marks two decades in power this weekend, less than a month before elections seen as a key test of his once-sterling but now tarnished democratic credentials. Since winning the respect and admiration of the West with enlightened economic and social policies, he has now run afoul of democracy advocates with increasing intolerance of dissent.
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/ 30 November 2005
The deputy chief of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) said on Wednesday the rebels are ready to talk peace, breaking the group’s penchant for secrecy and drawing a cautious response from the goverment. Vincent Otti, the number two of elusive LRA supremo Joseph Kony, said his boss had authorised him to make the call for a negotiated end to the brutal nearly 20-year war.
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/ 11 October 2005
The Sudanese government has for the first time agreed to allow Ugandan troops to pursue members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in all parts of southern Sudan, Uganda’s army said on Tuesday. In a deal reached last week, Khartoum lifted restrictions on Ugandan military operations against the LRA in southern Sudan as long as they are coordinated with its army.
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/ 23 September 2005
The deputy chief of Uganda’s notorious rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Vincent Otti, is seeking political asylum in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda’s defence minister said on Friday. Kinshasa has yet to make any decision on the matter, the minister, Amama Mbabazi, told reporters in Kampala.
Hollywood star Forest Whitaker, who is playing Idi Amin in the screen version of the acclaimed novel The Last King of Scotland, says the late Ugandan dictator was no saint, but was not the monster that has been portrayed in the West. He says his research for the role in the film has changed his perception of Amin.
Ugandans trickled into polling stations across the country on Thursday to vote in a landmark referendum on restoring multiparty democracy after nearly 20 years. Amid opposition boycott calls and apparent widespread apathy, observers believe voters will endorse Uganda’s most sweeping political reforms in a generation.
Far from the capital where the merits of democracy are debated in earnest, the impoverished residents of war-ravaged northern Uganda see little point in this week’s referendum on restoring multiparty politics. Caught in a conflict nearly as old as the 20-year-old ban on political pluralism which President Yoweri Museveni now wants to repeal via Thursday’s vote, Ugandans are more concerned with peace than politics.
Ugandans go to the polls this week to vote in a referendum on scrapping a nearly 20-year-old ban on multi-party politics billed by the government as a bold step toward democratisation. But the electoral reform has been decried by the opposition as an empty gesture intended to cement President Yoweri Museveni’s hold on power.
Rebels hacked to death six people in northern Uganda overnight as the army detained two opposition politicians for alleged collaboration with the insurgents, officials said on Thursday. The six adults and children were beaten and stabbed with machetes and hoes when the rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army assaulted three villages.