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East Africa: EA Court Starts Hearing Uganda's Age Limit Case
Monitor, 15 July 2020
The East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania, yesterday started hearing the case where Ugandan lawyer Male Mabirizi is challenging the decision of the Supreme Court in… Read more »
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Uganda: Age-Limit Case Against Museveni to Proceed
East African, 23 February 2020
The East African Court of Justice has declined to stop a case challenging the constitutionality of changes in Uganda's presidential term and age limits. This is a fresh blow to… Read more »
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Uganda: Age Limit Case - Lawyer Mabirizi Files 32,000 Pages of Documents
Monitor, 17 October 2019
Ahead of the hearing of the presidential age limit case by the East African Court of Justice, the petitioner, Mr Male Mabirizi, yesterday filed a whopping 32,850 pages of… Read more »
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Uganda: Shs500 Million for Age Limit Case Splits Supreme Court Judges
Monitor, 28 May 2019
A Supreme Court judge has questioned the rationale of the Judiciary paying her colleagues and subordinates in excess of Shs104m in honoraria for handling the age limit case appeal… Read more »
Uganda's Presidential Age Limit Case Back in Court
Male Mabirizi is challenging the decision of the Supreme Court in upholding the amendment of the Constitution to remove the clause on the age limit for presidents. The East African Court of Justice in Tanzania has started the hearing by way of video conferencing in observance of the measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
InFocus
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The joint petitioners opposed to presidential age limit removal failed to convince the Constitutional Court to have Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga questioned about the role ... Read more »
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Yoweri Museveni has signed into law a bill removing presidential age limits. The controversial constitutional amendment removes the age limit of 75 years imposed on presidential ... Read more »
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Experts say Uganda could witness "political instability, disorder and more human rights abuses" after parliament passed a constitutional amendment which effectively allows ... Read more »
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A bill changing the Ugandan constitution and paving the way for the lifting of the term limits on the presidency, the return of presidential term limits and the extension of MPs ... Read more »
