With Uganda’s elections a week away, social media has been lit as the candidates, pundits, journalists and ordinary people have all been using Twitter to share their hopes and expectations in the run-up to the February 18th polls
Here’s a list of who to follow to make sense of it all.
Twitter users
- Solomon Serwanjj, Uganda investigative reporter
- TMS Ruge, Co-founder of HiveColab, an innovation hub and startup incubator in Kampala, Uganda
- Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandan blogger and digital strategist
- Qatahar Raymond, Ugandan investigative reporter
- Daniel Kalinaki, Africa Editor at Nation Media Group
- Charles Onyango-Obbo, Editor Mail and Guardian Africa
- Angelo Izama, Ugandan analyst and blogger
- Prudence Nyamishana, Ugandan communications specialist and Global Voices Author
- Maurice Mugisha, head of news NTV Uganda
- Evelyn Namara, Ugandan social entrepreneur
- Andrew Mwenda, Ugandan journalist and political commentator
- Nduhukire, political reporter and anchor at NTV Uganda
- Alan Kasujja, BBC presenter in Uganda
- Catherine Byaruhanga, a Ugandan multi-media journalist
- ACME Uganda, The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME)
- The Women’s Situation Room Uganda (WSRU), a platform for early warning and a rapid response mechanism against election related violence and conflict in Uganda
News media
Presidential candidates
- Kizza Besigye, candidate for Forum for Democratic Change
- Maureen Kyalya, independent candidate
- Abed Bwanika, candidate for People’s Development Party
- Amama Mbabazi, independent candidate under GoForward movement
- Yoweri Museveni, candidate for the ruling National Resistance Movement
- Venansius Baryamureeba, independent candidate
- Joseph Mabirizi, independent candidate
Uganda’s Electoral Commission
- ECUganda, official Twitter account of the electoral commission
- Jotham Taremwa, Spokesperson of Uganda Electoral Commission
Ugandans are tweeting with the hashtag #UgandaDecides, #IChoosePeaceUG, and #IPledgePeaceUG. as well, urging others to vote wisely and peacefully.
We have compiled the accounts into a handy list, here.
