By Nangayi Guyson – New York —UN deploring what it called “the gross and systematic violation of human rights” in strife-torn Libya, the Security Council has voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Muammar Gaddafi’s regime demanding an end to the violence and decided to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court while imposing an arms embargo on the country and a travel ban and assets freeze on his family and certain Government officials. Saturday night’s vote was only the second time the Security Council has referred a country to the ICC, and the first time such a vote has been... Continue Reading
By Olusegun A. Ogundeji – Members of the Sierra Leone Policy Watch (SLPW), a public policy think-tank and a civic engagement group that seeks to promote transparency, accountability, responsible and responsive government through missions of investigative reporting, litigation and public policy advocacy, empowering citizens through civic education has completed a draft bill titled “Diaspora Voting Right” on behalf of all Sierra Leonean residents in the Diaspora. Whereas, the constitution of Sierra Leone has conferred the right to vote to every Sierra Leonean as enshrined in Chapter IV Section 31, this proposed draft bill is in fact, an affirmation of such... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson in Kampala Uganda – Uganda’s Electoral Commission chairman Badru Kiggundu announced Yoweri Museveni as the elected President of Uganda after winning with 68.38 percent of voters followed by his main rival, Kizza Besigye, the flag bearer of four-party coalition Inter-Party Cooperation with 26.01 percent, told reporters today in Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda Badru Kiggundu made announcement at 40:30pm from Mandela National stadium which has been used as the tallying center. When news reached the opposition, they rejected the result saying any government President Yoweri Museveni formed would be “illegitimate” and added in a statement that before... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – Overshadowed on Western newspapers, probably because of the revolutionary wave in the southern Mediterranean countries, Ugandan presidential elections have just come to an end. The official results have been announced by Badru Kiggundu, chairman of the hotly contested Electoral Commission. Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986 (a constitutional amendment in 2005 lifted the time limit for presidential term) has won again. He got 68.4% of votes, while his rival, Kizza Besigye of the FDC (Forum for Democratic Change) got 26%; they are followed by a large distance from the other six candidates, including Beti Kamya, a... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Kampala – Millions of Ugandans turned up to vote on Friday in the east African nation’s presidential ballot pitting the country’s long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician, officials said. President Yoweri Museveni, who is vague about his age and says he is 66 or 67, faces seven challengers but his stiffest competition is from a former ally DR Kizza Besigye 54 years old. Opposition threats of street protests and the looming start of oil production have raised the stakes in the vote – just the second multiparty election to be held in Uganda... Continue Reading
