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Uganda: President Has No Hand in Age Limit Push - Museveni Advisor
Observer, 21 July 2017
President Museveni's private secretary on political affairs has said he has never received instructions or permission from his boss to start a campaign rallying Ugandans to support… Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Arrests Opposition Activists
VOA, 21 July 2017
Ugandan police say they arrested dozens of political opposition activists this week. The arrests coincide with speculation President Yoweri Museveni will act to change the… Read more »
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Uganda: Police Arrest Mao Over Age Limit Demonstration
Monitor, 20 July 2017
Democratic Party president Mr Nobert Mao, DP secretary General Gerald Siranda, Mr Hakim Kizza have been arrested and whisked to Central Police Station Kampala after they had… Read more »
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Uganda: Opposition Groups Meet to Foil Land and Age Limit Plans
Observer, 21 July 2017
President Museveni's claim that there is no proposal for amendment of the Constitution to do away with the upper presidential age limit has been exposed after several NRM groups… Read more »
Ugandan President Has No Hand in Age Limit Push - Advisor
David K Mafabi, President Yoweri Museveni's private secretary on political affairs, says he has had no instructions from his boss to start a campaign to support the removal of the age limit and that his involvement in a meeting that resolved to change the constitution was strictly personal. The constitution limits the age of the president to 75, and Museveni will hit the limit before 2021, the year of the next presidential election.
InFocus
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The Monitor is reporting that a comprehensive plan is in place to lift the limit on the age of the country's president and an initial deadline for the plan is the end of 2018. ... Read more »
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Word has been on the street for a whole year now, the ruler of three decades, President Yoweri Museveni, is fully committed to clinging on beyond the current constitutional age cap ... Read more »
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The country's constitution limits the age of the president to 75, and President Yoweri Museveni in will hit the age limit before 2021, the year Uganda will hold the next ... Read more »
