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[Monitor] The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party yesterday challenged the Electoral Commission (EC) to summon all political candidates defying Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) during campaigns, including President Museveni.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
[Monitor] The chief executives of commercial banks have meet this morning to chart a way forward on the Bank of Uganda (BoU) directive to lower interest rates before government caps the interest rate that financial institutions can charge borrowers.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed that only presidential candidates will be given free and equal airtime on the state owned media outlets as provided for in the Presidential Elections Act 2005.
Mr Byabakama said the electoral body will meet the Uganda Commissions Commission (UCC) to discuss the enforcement of the law which requires all presidential candidates to have the same access to the state-owned media outlets.
Section 23 (1 and 2) of Presidential Elections Act 2005 stipulates that all presidential candidates shall get equal treatment, freedom of expression and access to information of candidates.
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According to the electoral body, a presidential candidate is free to buy airtime from privately owned media houses to supplement their free access to the state owned media.
In February, Parliament passed the Presidential Elections Amendment Bill which stipulates punitive measures to state owned media managers such as a year in jail or a fine of up to Shs10m for denying presidential candidates coverage.
Media personality Cornel West is an African American Studies scholar and socialist critic of the white patriarchy that is the United States of America. West grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Harvard in 1973. He then embarked on an academic career in the humanities, teaching ethics, religion and African American studies during the 1980s at the Union Theological Seminary, Yale and the University of Paris. During the 1990s he was a professor at Harvard University, but left in 2002 after a highly-publicized dispute with the universitys president, Lawrence Summers (Summers didnt think West worked hard enough for the school). West then joined the faculty of Princeton, where hed earned his PhD. in 1980. During his career, West has straddled the fence between upper class scholars, his professional peer group, and the average joes in the street, the group whose cause he champions. A celebrity scholar and popular professor, West is also a burr under the saddle for administrators because of his outspoken defense of leftist causes and political candidates. A frequent guest on TV talk shows, West is often called on to attack the left as well as the right; he made headlines for calling President Barack Obama a Republican in blackface in 2012. Hes also the author of nearly 20 books, including Race Matters (1994), Democracy Matters (2005) and the memoir Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud (2010).
