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By Kabuye Ronald The National Unity Platform (NUP), Uganda’s leading opposition party, has lodged a strong protest to the Electoral Commission, condemning what it describes as its “illegal exclusion” from discussions concerning the Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD), despite recent legislative changes making IPOD a statutory body under the National Consultative Forum (NCF). In a letter dated Wednesday 17th, September …

Thousands of Ugandans living in Canada — organised by chapters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and allied diaspora groups — held coordinated demonstrations on Saturday, September 13, 2024, to denounce what they described as a sustained campaign of repression, abductions and human-rights violations in Uganda. Protesters gathered in major urban centres to call on Canadian and other Western governments, …