THE United States has cancelled its decision to observe Uganda’s election today after the East African country’s electoral commission failed to accredit most of the people on its team.
The American ambassador to Uganda, Natalie Brown, said in a statement on Wednesday that the electoral commission had failed to issue the majority of observers with the necessary documents, leaving them with no choice but to withdraw their support.
Ms Brown said that only 15 of its observers had been granted access to the polls, a number short of the figure that the mission had requested, just a day before the country heads to one of its hotly contested polls in decades.
“It is with profound disappointment that I announce US Mission in Uganda’s decision to cancel our diplomatic observation of Uganda’s January 14 elections due to the decision by the Electoral Commission of Uganda to deny more than 75 percent
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