The nations around the great lakes, that is Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia tend to mirror each other in numerous ways. The older voters are...
Having a 'free and fair' election within an unjust society is a myth that helps perpetuate violence through silence and the power of a skewed ballot....
Having a 'free and fair' election within an unjust society is a myth that helps perpetuate violence through silence and the power of a skewed ballot....
The democratic recession facing the horn questions the credibility and usefulness of liberal democratic elections in the region. This has direct implications for the legitimacy of...
Popular Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagualnyi is the first formidable challenge to the current Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni since he took power in 1986. He represents...
Popular Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagualnyi is the first formidable challenge to the current Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni since he took power in 1986. He represents...
Elections will be properly respected when the society in question has been atomised into a collection of self-interested individuals dependent on the state.
Facebook removed content engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour six days before Uganda’s presidential election. In conversation with The Elephant, Tessa Knight opines on the process that...
In recent months it has felt like election rigging has run riot. Citizens killed, beaten and intimidated and election results falsified in Uganda. Ballot boxes illegally...
The Kenyan election cycle has become synonymous with bloodletting, but without acknowledgment and apology for the atrocities each time committed, we cannot build any lasting bridges.
