By Dennis Kabatto – A nine-member judges panel of Uganda Supreme Court has granted National Unity Platform (NUP) opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu also known as Bobi Wine to withdraw his petition to invalidate president Museveni’s re-election. Though there were no objections to the withdrawal by the Attorney General, the Electoral Commission, and president Museveni, the president’s legal team nonetheless argued that the law requires Bobi Wine to pay the cost upon withdrawal of the petition. Adding, that based on his actions including what they described as making a mockery of the court’s independence, attacking court officials, and discussing... Continue Reading
By John Njoroge – The ruling party and President John Pombe Magufuli are both leading by far, trailing the weak opposition in Tanzania. As usual opposition parties, activists and western propaganda machination, all over, will resort to one simple fallacy; whether the election was free and fair. Let me address that first before I share what I believe to be the reasons for weaker opposition this time around in Tanzania. The term free and fair has no one meaning in electoral governance across the world; countries abhor diverse electoral systems and so is how they manage their elections. The fact... Continue Reading
In this year's edition of "UnAfrican Leaders Series," I won't rank them like last year, instead, a few great African Presidents are given the space to showcase their greatness.
Dr, John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania (PhD in Chemistry) is indubitably one of Africa's top 5 "UnAfrican" Presidents due to the unique way he transforms his own country; building the case for other countries to emulate. We present 10 things of his Greatness as among our top 3 Transformative UnAfrican Leaders of 2019.
The Daily Maverick newspaper on December 3rd, 2019 published an article titled thus: "Tanzania’s stolen civic elections: An urgent call to action"
The article that leaves a lot of questions to be asked and answered, but simply politically calculated to tarnish the image of our country, Tanzania, seems to have been written, edited somewhere and published by a Tanzanian Zitto Kabwe, Opposition MP.
Zitto’s article uses the just 2019 ended local elections in Tanzania as a case study to build his accusations on Tanzania's democracy.
Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) have called for recently re-elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to mediate the dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa, so that they can finally meet to address perennial challenges affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.
