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Topic: Elections in Uganda

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Africa - UGANDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Candidates in both elections submitted petitions raising concerns of vote-rigging and allegations of intimidation and malpractice; the majority were dismissed by the courts.
		Although the parliamentary elections were conducted in an atmosphere of relative calm, there were allegations of election-related violence, harassment and intimidation by state agents, particularly in the north and west of the country.
		In accordance with the 1999 peace agreement between Uganda and Sudan, Ugandan children abducted by the LRA and held in LRA camps in Sudan continued to be returned and resettled in Uganda throughout 2001.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/afr/uganda!Open (1094 words)

	Uganda - Elections
		The DP won the 1961 elections by unexpectedly winning seats in Buganda where a few of its followers voted despite a mass boycott of the polls organized by the kingdom government.
		Postindependence elections scheduled for 1967 were "postponed" by Obote because of the crisis of 1966.
		Elections of resistance committee officials by voters in village and parish RCs were held only three weeks after President Museveni's announcement in most parts of the country.
	countrystudies.us /uganda/60.htm (1305 words)

	Uganda - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The area of Uganda includes Lake George and Lake Kyoga; parts of Lake Victoria, Lake Edward, and Lake Albert; and the Nile River from its inlet at Lake Victoria to Nimule on the Sudan frontier.
		Final details concerning the administration of Uganda were settled by a series of agreements in 1900, the most comprehensive of which guaranteed special status to Buganda, including the continuation of its social and political system.
		Britain's almost 70 years of rule in Uganda was thus a centralized European bureaucracy superimposed on a federation of kingdoms and tribes.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /uganda.htm (1128 words)

	uga008 "Ugandan elections must be properly monitored" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This was not the case in the March presidential election, when monitors mainly focused at the poll itself.
		International election observers, however, announced that the general picture of the Ugandan poll was that it had been run "in a peaceful and orderly way".
		Meanwhile, a key independent monitoring group last week raised concerns that voter turnout in the 26 June parliamentary elections may be low, and that much of the electorate was not adequately informed of the voting process, according to a UN media.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/uga008_monitor_elections.htm (715 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - Uganda \| PBS
		Uganda is still one of the poorest countries in the world, but it is also one of the greenest and most fertile.
		However, there is a political crisis stirring in Uganda which threatens the country's relative peace and stability, and ironically the man at the center of the storm is a longtime U.S. ally and distinguished statesman, President Yoweri Museveni.
		The 2001 presidential election, in which Museveni squared off against five challengers, was marred by accusations of unlawful arrests and beatings of the political opposition.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/uganda (2826 words)

	Politics of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Uganda takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Uganda is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		The head of state in Uganda is the President, who is elected by a popular vote to a five-year term.
		Uganda's legal system since 1995 has been based on English common law and African customary law (customary law is in effect only when it does not conflict with statutory law).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Uganda (784 words)

	::PeaceJournalism.com - The Peace Media Research Center's e-magazine::
		Although critics both inside and outside Uganda accuse the Movement of being a front for a one-party state, the fact that a significant minority of current parliamentarians were elected on a platform of opposition to the Movement system demonstrates the modest success of the system.
		Uganda remains a donor-reliant state and the international community has used that leverage to push for the development of a multiparty system.
		All of Uganda's successes during the past two decades could be ruined by a third Museveni term, they argue, although some feel that for a country that has thrived for so long under one president, the specter of new leadership is as unsettling as a third Museveni term.
	peacejournalism.com /ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=4113 (1197 words)

	Uganda's Presidential Elections - Council on Foreign Relations
		But Museveni's decision to run for a third term in the February 23 presidential election (ElectionGuide.org)—which he is expected to win—the imprisonment of his main political rival, and the festering conflict between government forces and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, have aroused international concern about the president.
		Observers in and outside Uganda worry the elections may reverse progress and create a scenario all too familiar in Africa: a power-hungry regime bent on self-preservation.
		One such case involved the BBC's Uganda correspondent Will Ross, whose one-year accreditation was shortened to four months after he reported on the deaths of seven civilians in a northern refugee camp.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9917/ugandas_presidential_elections.html (1739 words)

	SudanTribune article : Uganda’s elections show vitality and difficulty of elections in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After several democratic, but problematic, elections in a number of African countries, Uganda’s vote is important not only for 27 million Ugandans, but as a symbol for the rest of the continent.
		In Ethiopia, the freest elections in the country’s history were held in May, but were marred by widespread irregularities and then violent protests.
		International observers monitoring November’s elections in Zanzibar said voting there was mostly free and fair, but opposition leaders complained that their supporters were kept off the voter register and were denied the right to vote.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=14215 (753 words)

	Elections in Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uganda is officially a non-party democracy, but in reality it is a one party dominant state with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in power.
		The next elections are slated for 2006 when the political space will be opened up for a multiparty election style for the first time in twenty years.
		Though the 2001 elections were constitutionally supposed to be the last for Museveni, efforts are underway to change the constitution by 2006 to enable him run for another term of office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Uganda (665 words)

	Uganda-CAN » Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CNN is currently featuring a powerful video of northern Uganda's child "night commuters;" up to 40,000 children are forced nightly to leave their rural homes and walk miles to sleep on town streets to avoid kidnapping.
		The plight and misery of children in northern Uganda was the object of a message sent 23 February by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, to the Church of Uganda and the Uganda Joint Christian Council.
		In light of recent claims that the Government of Uganda (GoU) is guilty of genocide by its neglect in northern Uganda, the Uganda Conflict Action Network is commissioning a legal study to determine the nature of abuses.
	www.ugandacan.org /archive/1/2006-02 (8341 words)

	UGANDA: parliamentary elections National Parliament, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elections were held for all the seats of the new Parliament provided for in the October 1995 Constitution.
		Elections to this body were postponed several times before finally taking place seven weeks after President of the Republic Yoweri Museveni - in office since January 1986 and governing under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) - had been returned over two challengers.
		In accordance with the decision taken in June 1995, legislative polling was held on a non-party basis, President Museveni himself being of the opinion that a multiparty system aggravated tribal divisions.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2329_96.htm (276 words)

	Uganda Elections 2006: A Hybrid Political System?
		Ever since, Uganda has had only two general elections, in 1996 and 2001, all of which have been held under the Movement system where one contests as an individual since all political parties had been banned.
		This is almost the same scenario when it comes to the Presidential elections, especially in northern Uganda, where many voters cast their vote to the main opposition leader and FDC President, Dr. Kizza Besigye for Presidency and voted for other party candidates in other polls.
		Also, as was the case with the Mayoral elections, independent, Abedi Bwanika beat Kalule Obote, a candidate of a party that once ruled Uganda, by polling by 0.95 against 0.82 percent.
	www.ugpulse.com /articles/daily/homepage.asp?ID=338 (1331 words)

	Kenyan Pundit » Commentary on the Uganda elections
		The upcoming elections in Uganda will have implications on the future of democracy in the region as a whole…perhaps the “African Big Man” syndrome is not about to vanish after all.
		The election period was simply too short, especially given the fact that the main political actors (with the exception of the Movement) were essentially unable to operate politically until November 2005.
		Two past elections in Uganda in 2001 and 2006 have returned the incumbent after violent campaigns and rigged results as ruled by Uganda’s Supreme Court and observed by local and international election observers.
	www.kenyanpundit.com /?p=131 (3668 words)

	Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Uganda, with alignment of third ...
		Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Uganda, with alignment of third countries of 28 February 2006
		The European Union is pleased to note that the voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Uganda on 23 February 2006 passed generally peacefully and with a significant voter turnout.
		The EU Election Observation Mission will remain in Uganda to monitor all remaining aspects of the electoral process, including appeals and complaints procedures.
	www.eu2006.at /en/News/CFSP_Statements/February/2702Uganda.html (281 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Uganda - Elections
		Uganda's President Museveni is to be sworn in for a third term, after his controversial re-election in February.
		Uganda's first multiparty elections in two decades, scheduled for 23 February, are unlikely to be free and fair due to state intimidation of the opposition and voters, according to a leading human rights group.
		Uganda's President Museveni is to be sworn in for...
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=222 (767 words)

	uga006 "Uganda needs to re-affirm human rights commitment"
		While the elections in general went orderly and peacfully, according to international observers, there were several complaints of irregularities.
		An election observer coalition made up of non governmental organisations has also made damning statements about the "lack of transparency" in the entire electoral process, according to IPS, describing it as "not free and fair" but have endorsed the result as legitimate insisting that the irregularities had little effect on the outcome.
		The Ugandan presidential elections was seen as a test to the assumptions that political freedoms is a commodity enjoyed by many here and that democracy is a concept that has taken root in the country.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/uga006_hrights_reaffirm.htm (789 words)

	SudanTribune article : Monitors must investigate threats to free elections in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The letter highlighted the continued existence of single-party state structures of Uganda’s “Movement” system; intimidation and violence by security agents against opposition supporters; and the selective use of prosecutions to hinder and intimidate opposition leaders.
		In nine of Uganda’s 69 districts, Human Rights Watch has documented 58 cases of intimidation and violence by security agents or NRM members against individuals from the opposition.
		The open letter to the election observers is based on a February 13 Human Rights Watch briefing paper on the elections, “In Hope and Fear: Uganda’s Presidential and Parliamentary Polls,” available at: http://hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/uganda0206/.
	www.sudantribune.com /imprimable.php3?id_article=14144 (416 words)

	Press Releases: Uganda, Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Press Releases: Uganda, Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Uganda
		Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Uganda
		Brussels, 27 February 2006 - The European Union is pleased to note that the voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Uganda on 23 February 2006 passed generally peacefully and with a significant voter turnout.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-6MFHQR?OpenDocument (259 words)

	DFID \| Country Profiles \| Africa \| Uganda
		Nevertheless Uganda remains one of the poorest countries in the world with 31 per cent of the population living below the poverty line and a per capita income of around $300 per annum.
		The challenge for Uganda now is to deepen reforms already underway and prevent their reversal.
		A referendum in July 2005 led to the adoption of a multi-party system and the Presidential and Parliamentary elections held on 23 February 2006 were the first multi-party elections in Uganda for 25 years.
	www.dfid.gov.uk /countries/africa/uganda.asp (813 words)

	Uganda: District Elections and Multi-Party Democracy Progress
		The recent elections for LC V Chairpersons, which are the local government elected leaders, and Women MPs in new districts reinforced Uganda's move towards a multiparty democracy.
		According to a 1 September 2006 Press Release by the Ugandan electoral commission, the voting pattern in northern Uganda is shown to have reversed in favor of the NRM.
		Although in her opinion Uganda is in the right direction with the multiparty system.
	www.bloggernews.net /2006/09/uganda-district-elections-and-multi.html (2532 words)

	Uganda News.Net
		Uganda will appeal to adventurous travelers who are interested in wildlife and lush African scenery.
		When peaceful conditions prevail, the highlight of any trip to Uganda is a chance to see mountain gorillas in their natural habitat.
		Uganda News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
	www.ugandanews.net (955 words)

	Elections in Uganda
		The Buganda region opted for indirect elections* and its Lukiiko [local assembly] nominated 21 representatives to the National Assembly.
		Not Available (N/A) 284 non-partisan delegates were elected with the principal task of writing a final draft of a new constitution.
		The election* was officially non partisan; The opposition, after their defeat in the earlier presidential election, met and declared a boycott of the parliamentary elections.
	africanelections.tripod.com /ug.html (350 words)

	Turnout Heavy in Ugandan Presidential, Parliamentary Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The polling station supervisor says he sent election agents to find the man who voted in the student's place, partly to find out whether the man did it on purpose or by mistake.
		At some stations, election monitors from each of the five political parties in the presidential race have taken to campaigning, in violation of election codes.
		He says in past elections in Uganda, the problems have not been in the actual voting, but rather in the counting of the ballots.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-02-23-voa30.cfm (600 words)

	The Institutional and Legal Context of the Elections in Uganda - Uganda Resources at CMI
		The empirical focus is the political developments in the period before, during and after the 2006 elections.
		Strengthen the donor community's understanding of political processes and institutions that are central in the conduct of the 2006 elections in Uganda.
		These web pages aim to continue this discourse by providing information on the situation in Uganda and in the region, and by presenting academic work on a range of issues relating to Uganda and on elections in general, as well as links to other resources.
	www.cmi.no /uganda (254 words)

	uganda witness.org - The Donor Verdict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They concluded that the elections had demonstrated “significant improvements” on Uganda’s 2001 elections.
		On election day itself, there were few incidences of violence.
		William Fitzgerald, Charge d’Affairs at the US embassy, followed suit saying that the election "did not take place on a level playing field" and that there were "legitimate concerns" that should be followed up.
	www.ugandawitness.org /content/view/13/41 (275 words)

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