Archive for the ‘Uganda’ Category
Following Ugandans on foot as they #walk2work
My occasional internet addiction finally proves useful as I follow the news in Uganda, where Museveni’s biggest challenger in the February elections is now an even more formidable opponent — a man around whom varieties of Uganda’s popular discontent can coalesce and lead to movement. Literally. Walking has become a kind of protest in Uganda, [...]
Let’s play, “Why is this news?”
In this report from Uganda (slow down! 20 clicks a month!) we learn that: A man tried to steal a motorcycle in Kampala. A crowd gathered. They beat him. Then they set him on fire. Then the police showed up, and they fired into the crowd. Maybe they meant it to be a warning shot. [...]
Uganda finds easiest Security Council sanctions loophole ever
In order to comply with UN sanctions, Uganda froze the assets of Tropical Bank, “99.6875 percent” owned by Libya, according to Bloomberg. (The other “0.3125 percent” belongs — shocker — to the Ugandan government.) Then it took the bank over. Why? Bloomberg reports on a statement from Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile: The measures [...]
In Uganda, a new inflation — in the price of votes
A must-read from Joachim Buwembo in The East African. Buwembo notices that as the Ugandan shilling tanks, the value of the Ugandan vote is steadily rising, historically speaking. Today, he says, a vote — allegedly bought at $30 in some places — is worth 300 times its 1996 value (though I haven’t done any discounting). [...]
Ugandan Opposition: “If the ruling party can steal votes, we can totally plagiarize”
There are some rather surprising similarities between British Prime Minister David Cameron’s political manifesto and the one Ugandan opposition candidate Kizza Besigye wrote. Remarkable, says the Telegraph: The opening statement in Mr Besigye’s Forum for Democratic Change manifesto is almost word-for-word identical to David Cameron’s, written ahead of last year’s election. “A country is at [...]
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