Battleground states: What’s changed in seven states likely to determine US next president
The battlegrounds have changed over time as the country’s economic and demographic trends have shifted populations around. Floria and Ohio, for example, had been tightly contested in past elections, but now lean Republican in presidential votes. On the other hand shifting demographics have put southern states like North Carolina and Georgia into play for Democrats.
Refugee economy: How Uganda’s ‘small minds’ swapped heart and soul of Pearl of Africa for political capital
If President Tibuhaburwa Museveni agrees with his son that he steps down whenever that will be possible, then automatically the leader of PLU will be elected [resident of Uganda, whether Ugandans like it or not. Universal suffrage will be a thing of the past. The right of Ugandans to choose will be no more. This is a gigantic plot against Uganda and the indigenes of Uganda. It will the last nail in the coffin carrying the disempowered Ugandans.
Uganda President Museveni’s son abandons bid to succeed father, tells youth to back him in 2026
Human rights activists and his political opponents including pop star turned politician Bobi Wine have long accused Museveni of using security forces to jail, intimidate or torture opposition supporters. Museveni denies such accusations.
Museveni shuts down Busoga Radio station in replay of Orwellian Ministry of Truth in further curb of Press Freedom
It will be terrible for Uganda today and tomorrow if the shutting down of Busoga One is tied to politics. However, if the President found the Station ethically and morally right but politically wrong, then we should begin to shed tears for Uganda.
Evangelicals in US swing states tussle over church’s values to sway scales for Kamala Harris
Catholics for Harris and Interfaith for Harris groups are launching. Mainline Protestant groups like Black Church PAC and Christians for Kamala are also campaigning on behalf of the vice president. Butler, who grew up evangelical in Georgia, said the Harris campaign can find common ground with evangelicals, particularly suburban evangelical women.
Harris and Trump tied nationally in a slew of latest polls that also show tight race in Pennsylvania
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain deadlocked less than seven weeks before the November 5 US presidential election, according to new polls released on Thursday that also show a tight race in the key state of Pennsylvania. While the surveys found likely and registered voters gave...
Trumps go full crypto with World Liberty Financial, pledge to ‘make finance great again’
The Trump brothers have teased the new endeavour repeatedly in the weeks leading up to the announcement. In an X post on August 6, Eric wrote that he had “truly fallen in love with crypto/DeFi.” The following day, in another post, Donald Jr said he was “about to shake up the crypto world” and warned his followers not to “get left behind.”
In Uganda’s religio-politics, Christian clergy cast President Museveni as God’s messiah in the league of Jesus Christ
I was impressed by the capacity of the leader of the Universal Apostles Church to link politics and religion without hesitation or fear of any repercussions in the medium or long-term, on top of teaching its adherents hard work and God, while at the same time professing his love for President Museveni and National Resistance Movement (NRM).
Harris questions Trump’s rhetoric and tells voters not allow him access to ‘that microphone again’
Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, has repeatedly dismissed Donald Trump’s remarks as “the same old show.” During her September debate with Trump, she said it was a “tragedy” that he had “attempted to use race to divide the American people.”
Al Qaeda-allied militants strike military training facility at airport in Mali’s capital, inflict casualties
Mali, along with its neighbours Burkina Faso and Niger, has for over a decade battled an insurgency fought by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russian mercenary units for security assistance instead.
