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Today is the election in Uganda. I barely know or care about US Politics, much less be able to figure out what's going on in Uganda. I do know that these are the first multi-party elections in like 20-something years which I suppose is a good thing.
My main concern is that the country remains peaceful afterwards so that I can move there. For that reason I've been following the election closely through the two main newspapers. The govenment run paper is: New Vision while the independent paper is: The Monitor.
The monitor seems to have the most up to the minute election counts.
If no one gets more than 50% of the vote then there will be a runoff election.
current vote as of 3:00 california time:
Museveni (incumbant): 49.3%
Besigye (challenger): 47.4%
with 228,136 votes counted
"Power in the region is now switched-off from 6pm to 6pm the following day making operations very difficult."That doesn't leave much time that the power is on!
NPR did a segment on Kiva today.
Here's a link to the segment:
http://www.theworld.org/wma.php?id=02156
and the archive page
I'm now planning on leaving at the end of March rather than the end of February. Maybe the electricity in Uganda will be turned back on by then!