{"id":52336,"date":"2020-12-26T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52336"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:50:24","slug":"uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda halts vote campaigning in some areas, opposition cries foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52336&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>December 26, 2020<\/p>\n<p>KAMPALA (Reuters) \u2013 Uganda suspended all campaigning for January\u2019s presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday, citing coronavirus risks, but critics said the real reason was the opposition\u2019s popularity in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>The East African country is scheduled to hold a presidential election on Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Independent Electoral Commission has suspended campaign meetings in districts and cities categorised by the Ministry of Health as having high spread of Coronavirus. From December 26, 2020, no campaign meetings will be held in Mbarara, Kabarole, Luwero, Kasese, Masaka, Wakiso, Jinja, Kalungu, Kazo, Kampala City and Tororo,\u201d said commission spokesman Paul Bukenya in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\">\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>Uganda has reported 33,360 COVID-19infections and 245 deaths from the virus since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate and pop star Bobi Wine, 38, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, 76. The president has been in power since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Wine is popular among young people in the country. Many of his supporters say they are drawn to him by the criticism of Museveni\u2019s government woven into his lyrics. Others say that as a young leader he is better positioned to tackle the challenges they face.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, three people died in protests that erupted after police arrested Wine while he was campaigning in the country\u2019s east for violating anti-coronavirus measures.<\/p>\n<p>Wine said the commission\u2019s action was \u201ccowardly\u201d in a tweet after the announcement, adding: \u201cThe dictatorship is in panic. They have been surprised by the massive enthusiasm and support we have received within all parts of the country. They just can\u2019t imagine what would happen if they allowed our people to meet in these areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had rallies scheduled in Kampala this coming week.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling National Resistance Movement has no problem with the suspension of campaigning because they believe the commission took the decision in order to save the lives of Ugandans, party spokesman Rogers Mulindwa told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission had earlier restricted campaign rallies to no more than 200 people to avoid the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Andrew Bagala; Writing by Maggie Fick; Editing by Christina Fincher)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\">\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uganda halts vote campaigning in some areas, opposition cries foul<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One America News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2020 KAMPALA (Reuters) \u2013 Uganda suspended all campaigning for January\u2019s presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday, citing coronavirus risks, but critics said the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}