Mmusi Maimane, leader of South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), duing a party rally in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Democratic Alliance (DA) was the most funded political party in South Africa during the first half of financial year…
APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu during election campaigns. (2) Nigeria Election Campaigns are Characterized by Excessive Spending The second joint Pre-Election Assessment Report by International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) shines a spotlight on concerns…
A woman casting her vote on polling day in Uganda. Since 2006 when the multiparty political dispensation was reintroduced in Uganda, elective politics has become highly commercialized/monetized, consequently perpetuating exclusion of women from participating in the electoral processes as candidates,…
Photo Courtesy of Zogo News As the world commemorates the International Anti-Corruption Day tomorrow, 9th December, the fact that Uganda loses approximately Ugx 20 trillion ($5.3 billion) to corruption annually should not go unheeded. This is almost half of Uganda’s…
Kampala NRM’s Woman MP former candidate- Faridah Nambi arriving on a caterpillar for nominations at EC offices in October 2022. (Photo Courtesy-The Independent) With Uganda’s politics being highly monetised and commercialised, many men and women who offer themselves for elections…
Hon. Kateshumbwa Dickson donating wheel chairs and other items to Kabwohe Health Centre and Sheema Development Associationa during his campaigns in 2020 (Photo Courtesy of Showbiz Uganda) Voter inducement refers to acts taken by political parties and candidates towards the…
Parliament of Uganda (Photo Courtesy of Global Press) Uganda’s speaker of parliament, Hon. Anita Among has decried the perpetual absenteeism of ministers and Members of Parliament (MPs) which has paralysed parliamentary business. She made the outcry last week while chairing…
President Museveni at Kinyara Sugar Limited’s Industrial Sugar Refinery Plant in Masindi District Ugandan voters are now tasting first-hand, the effects of commercialised elective politics as they take tea, coffee, or corn/millet porridge without sugar not by choice, but just…
Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Hon. Anita Among during a sitting. (Photo Courtesy of Parliament of Uganda) Interest seems to be growing within pockets of legislators in the 11th Parliament of Uganda on the need to legislate on Campaign financing because…
Whereas Uganda’s electoral and political party legal framework contains provisions that regulate political party financing, misuse of state resources on campaigns, and voter bribery when it comes to regulating election campaign financing, this framework does not cover the ground properly.…
