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Uganda: MPs Hospitalised After Police Fire Teargas, Live Bullets at Age Limit Rally
Monitor, 24 October 2017
Two MPs have been admitted to Lira medical center after after they collapsed when police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse a consultative meeting on the age limit Bill in… Read more »
Ugandan MPs in Hospital After Teargas Used at Age Limit Rally
Two MPs have been admitted to a Lira medical centre after after they collapsed when police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse a consultative meeting on the age limit bill. The bill seeks to change the constitution to allow people older than 75 to stand for president of the country.
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Uganda: Police Send Besigye Back to Rukungiri
Monitor, 25 October 2017
Police have transferred Opposition activist Kizza Besigye from Nagalama Police Station in Mukono district back to Rukungiri District where they arrested him last week. Read more »
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Uganda: Magyezi Rejects Voters' Call to Drop Age Limit Bill
Observer, 25 October 2017
Igara West MP Raphael Magyezi yesterday responded angrily to constituency demands for him to withdraw his hugely controversial private member's bill, which seeks to scrap… Read more »
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Uganda: Igara West NRM Youth Disown MP Magyezi
Monitor, 24 October 2017
Igara West Member of Parliament, Mr Raphael Magyezi, who is behind the controversial move to lift the presidential age limit, has been disowned by the area National Resistance… Read more »
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Uganda: NRM Top-Most Body, CEC Endorses Age Limit Amendment
Observer, 24 October 2017
The ruling National Resistance Movement party top-most decision making organ, Central Executive Committee (CEC) has unanimously endorsed the age limit amendment bill. Read more »
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Uganda: Edson Nasasira Was Killed By Bullet at Rally - Postmortem
Observer, 24 October 2017
Edson Nasasira died of a gunshot wound/injury, the postmortem report from Karoli Lwanga Hospital - Nyakibale has confirmed. Read more »
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Uganda: MPs Hurry to Collect Shs29 Million, Find Empty Account
Monitor, 24 October 2017
Many Members of Parliament (MPs) have not yet received the Shs29 million for consultations on the Constitutional Amendment Bill. Read more »
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Uganda: Court Set to Deliver Ruling on Besigye Detention
Monitor, 24 October 2017
Nakifuma Grade One magistrate Sylvia Nvanungi will tomorrow (Wednesday ) deliver her ruling on an application by former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye and three others… Read more »
Otuke woman MP Sylvia Akello trying to help Mzee Lamex Ogwal (husband to MP Cecilia Ogwal) on the podium after police started firing teargas to disperse a joint consultative meeting on the age limit amendment in Lira District on October 24, 2017.
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An amount of U.S.$3,5 million has been released to members of parliament to facilitate consultation with constituents on a proposed amendment to the constitution which seeks to ... Read more »
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After weeks of canvassing local constituents' opinions in the face of growing opposition to a proposed amendment to the constitution to remove presidential age limits, ruling party ... Read more »
