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Candidate Ejiku concedes defeat, congratulates Wadri, prays for his release

ARUA. My dear folks and comrades, I rise up today to thank you most sincerely and congratulate you upon successfully completing the campaign for the Arua Municipality seat.
2021 Elections: With new electoral setups, how EC is planning for the new cities?

FEATURE. The excitement when the Ugandan Cabinet pronounced itself on the regional cities in May 2019 was evident, from the ministers of the respected areas,
2021 Elections: With new electoral setups, how EC is planning for the new cities?

FEATURE. The excitement when the Ugandan Cabinet pronounced itself on the regional cities in May 2019 was evident, from the ministers of the respected areas,
Arua DPC transferred.

ARUA. Arua district Police Commander Mr Abbas Ssenyonjo has been transferred following the Monday incident in which the Presidents vehicle is allaged to have been stoned at and the behind window smashed.
Court nullifies Nebbi municipal parliamentary elections

NEBBI. The Arua high court judge Justice Anthony Ojok Oyuka has nullified the election of Mr Suleiman Hashim as the Nebbi municipal Member of Parliament.
CSO’s criticize government over absence of ‘meaningful electoral reforms’, dialogue

ARUA. Civil society organizations (CSO’s) in the country have condemned what they term as the absence of meaningful electoral reforms that they say makes citizens’.............
Electoral commission sets date for Nebbi by election

NEBBI. The electoral commission on Thursday released the road map for the by-election of Nebbi district chairperson and lower local government.
Four top security chiefs fired over Arua by-election mess

ARUA. Four senior security officers attached to Arua district and West Nile region have been fired over allegations of failing to manage the fracas that ensued during the recently concluded Arua Municipality by-election process.
Kasiano Wadri wins Arua Municipality MP race

ARUA. Chants of "Kassiano oyee and peoples power" erupted at 10:00pm inside the Arua public primary school conference hall on Wednesday night as the Arua returning officer Ms Ruth Angom declared embattled independent candidate Kassiano Wadri winner of the hotly contested municipal by-elections.
Muni University secretary makes passionate appeal to Arua municipality voters to shun bribes.

ARUA. Muni University secretary Fr Dr Epiphany Odubuker Picho has cautioned voters in Arua municipality to be accountable and shun any bribes that are intended to influence their voting decisions in the August 15th by-elections.
Museveni, Amuriat clinch Nebbi LC5 campaigns

NEBBI. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of the Republic of Uganda who also doubles as the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman spent the most part of Tuesday campaigning for his candidate to win the Nebbi district chairman seat.
Nebbi municipality MP files notice of appeal to the Appellant Court

ZOMBO. The Member parliament for Nebbi Municipality Mr Hashim Sulaiman has filed a notice of appeal to the appellant court in Kampala in protest of the Arua high court ruling that ordered...
NRM wins Nebbi by-elections amidst low voter turn up

NEBBI. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate Mr Emmanuel Urombi yesterday won the Nebbi district local council (LC5) seat.
One shot dead as Arua by-election campaigns end with gunfire.

ARUA. The heated campaigns for the by-election to get a successor to the assassinated former Arua municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga has ended on a chaotic note.
Police now accuse Wadri, Bobi Wine of treason.

ARUA. The police in Arua district have preferred charges of treason and malicious damage to presidential convoy vehicle against independent candidate Kassiano Wadri, Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi a.k.a Bobi Wine and 33 other people they were arrested with on Monday.
Police trains officers on POMA ahead of 2021 elections

ARUA. A total of 202 Police officers across West Nile region were on Friday this week passed out after undergoing a two weeks training on public management skills at Mvara secondary school in Arua
Political heavyweights flock to Arua as by-election campaigns enter final lap

ARUA.The campaigns to find a successor to the slain former Arua municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga has entered a heated but interesting phase as heavyweight politicians and political party officials from down country flock to Arua.
Sh85m lost during raid on Kassiano Wadri.

ARUA. The campaign team for the detained Arua municipality parliamentary hopeful Mr Kassiano Wadri has said that they lost sh85m during the Monday evening raid at their campaign bureau at Hotel Pacific from where the candidate and over 40 members of the taskforce were arrested.
Voting kicks off in Arua municipality by-election.

ARUA. Voting is underway at the 65 polling stations in Arua municipality on a bright Wednesday morning as residents seek to select a successor to late former Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga.

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