List of Uganda articles
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GettyImages-511149324 crop This Time I Decided to Vote
Here's why it meant so much for one writer in Kampala to vote in Uganda's seriously flawed election.
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Riot police advance towards a crowd of opposition supporters in the centre of Ggaba, a suburb of Kampala, on February 18, 2016, during Uganda's national elections. Voters refused to use a polling station at Ggaba after an unsealed ballot box was found among voting materials, and police moved in to disperse the crowds as they began to protest. Voting in Uganda's national elections was due to begin at 07:00 am (0400 GMT) but was stalled for several hours in some polling stations in parts of the city and the surrounding Wakiso district, where ballot boxes and papers did not arrive on time. / AFP / Will Boase (Photo credit should read WILL BOASE/AFP/Getty Images) Candidate Arrest, Social Media Blackout, and Clashes Mar Election Day in Uganda
Longtime President Yoweri Museveni is widely expected to win re-election, through means fair or foul.
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A Ugandan military UPDF officer (L) disperse supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye who had gathered in large numbers to welcome him back to Kampala from Nairobi on May 12, 2011 where he had gone to seek medical treatment for injuries sustained after he was attacked by state security personnel during an opposition demonstration. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni vowed to stamp out "disrupting schemes" on May 12 as he was sworn in for a fourth term while masses of opposition supporters welcomed home his rival, Kizza Besigye. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Is the U.S. Military Propping Up Uganda’s ‘Elected’ Autocrat?
Ugandan forces have used U.S. aid to fight terrorists. Will they also use it to crush opponents of the president?
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (C) and his wife Janet Museveni wave from to supporters from atop their car as they arrive for a rally of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala on February 16, 2016. Uganda's presidential contenders held their final campaign rallies on February 16, a day after opposition supporters clashed with police leaving at least one person dead. Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is widely predicted to win a fifth term in power in polls, and warned at a rally against voting for his rivals. / AFP / Isaac Kasamani (Photo credit should read ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images) A Real Debate Before Uganda’s Fake Election
Longtime President Yoweri Museveni made history by facing his challengers in a televised showdown. That doesn’t mean this week’s elections aren’t already rigged in his favor.
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GettyImages-510415398 crop The Man Who Overstayed
Uganda’s long-time president is certain to win the upcoming election — again. So why is everyone campaigning so hard?
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A picture taken on January 29, 2016 shows a sign post in the Ziika forest in Uganda, near Entebbe. The Zika virus was first discovered in April 1947 after testing a macaque monkey in Ziika forest, Uganda by the scientists of the Yellow Fever Research Institute. The virus is spread by day time active mosquitos. The Zika virus is "spreading explosively" in the Americas and the region may see up to four million cases of the disease strongly suspected of causing microcephaly according to the World Health Organization. Microcephaly is a condition causes babies to be born with an abnormally small head and a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome. / AFP / ISAAC KASAMANI (Photo credit should read ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images) Uganda Discovered the Zika Virus. And the Solution for It.
The African country has shown that not all crisis management is made the same.
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Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: (FILES) This file picture taken 29 June 2006, five kilometers south of the town of Bunia, Ituri District, about 3,000km east of the capital KinshasaA young militia fighter waiting to hand over bullets at a United Nations disarmament point. Delegates from 20 African countries gather in Kinshasa from 12 to 14 June 2007 for a UN conference on the reintegration and disarmament of former combatants in the world's poorest and most violence-wracked region. AFP PHOTO/FILES/STUART PRICE (Photo credit should read STUART PRICE/AFP/Getty Images) Making a Murderer in Uganda
Kidnapped by rebels when he was 9, Dominic Ongwen grew up to command fighters who slaughtered, raped, and pillaged. Is he guilty of heinous crimes — or was he a hostage the whole time?
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Kampala, UGANDA: Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni greets supporters as he, together with his wife Janet, arrives at the final election rally in Kampala 21 February 2006. Ugandans go to the polls to cast there vote 23Febraury in the country's first multi-party presidential elections since 1980. Musesveni is presidential candidate for the ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM) the main challenge is from Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change leader (FDC) . AFP PHOTO/ALEXANDER JOE (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images) The Battle for Uganda’s ‘Museveni Babies’
An entire generation of Ugandans has grown up under one president. Now they’re the principle battleground in an election that could end the aging strongman’s rule.
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Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguessou casts his ballot on October 25, 2015 in Brazzaville. People in the Republic of Congo began voting in a referendum today on whether longtime President Denis Sassou Nguesso can seek a third term in office that has sparked clashes in the oil-producing country. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Africa’s Softer, Gentler Coups d’Etat
Across the continent, military takeovers are out and nasty legal maneuvering is in.
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GettyImages-457482188crop Ugandan Men Can No Longer Get Their Livestock Back After a Divorce
Uganda's top court outlaws refunds for the so-called "bride price."
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jaffar ‘This Man I Call Father’: My Facebook Friendship With Idi Amin’s Son
Meet Jaffar Amin. He does voiceover work, likes MC Hammer, and posts family histories on Facebook. Oh, and his dad was Africa’s most notorious dictator.
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119822967_kony2green To Forgive a Warlord
The wheels of justice are turning for Joseph Kony's top deputies. But could rehashing the worst days of the Lord’s Resistance Army at The Hague tear Uganda apart?
