Posts Tagged ‘elections’
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 [...]
Ugandan opposition threatens That Which Did Not Work At All in Burundi
Next month, Uganda is having a presidential election — or, depending on your viewpoint, a mini-re-coronation. The Economist last fall called Museveni a “king by acclamation,” and not just because he’s been around forever, has a lot of houses, and puts his family in charge of most major posts. The magazine’s Africa folks blogged, “Mr [...]
An African strongman, a rockstar journalist, and an EU worker with a dopey haircut all walk into a bar…
I wrote this for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and while posting it in its entirety here is going to bite into my SEO rating, I figure there aren’t a whole lot of people who can overtake me in a Google search for “jina moore.” And this, alas, is no variety show. I wrote [...]
Burundi’s elections, from inside the polls
Here’s an audio-visual look at Burundi’s presidential poll, from inside one rural voting station, which I produced for my Pulitzer Center project “Beyond Peace Deals.” If I had had the luxuries of the US, like great bandwidth and the absence of grenades going off behind one’s hotel the night of a presidential election, this would [...]
If you don’t blog for awhile, do you disappear?
I’ve been on a manic reporting binge for the last few weeks, so I haven’t had time to keep up the blogging. Or the tweeting. Or with Facebook. I am therefore no longer certain of my continued existence. And it turns out, I swear, I can’t even see myself in the mirror any more. I [...]
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