The U.S. State Department says it is considering a range of actions against Uganda authorities over the just concluded electoral process that saw President Yoweri Museveni reelected for a sixth term, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quoting an email from the US State Department, the NYT says Uganda could be up for tough actions from the Joe Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have significant concerns about Uganda\u2019s recent elections,\u201d a State Department representative said in a statement emailed to The New York Times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It added, \u201cThe United States has made clear that we would consider a range of targeted options, including the imposition of visa restrictions, for Ugandan individuals found to be responsible for election-related violence or undermining the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cconduct of the Ugandan authorities during those elections,\u201d the statement read, \u201cis one factor that will be considered as we make determinations on future U.S. assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before and after the Jan. 14 election,\u00a0Senators Bob Menendez of New Jersey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chris Coons of Delaware<\/a>;\u00a0Jake Sullivan<\/a>, President Biden\u2019s national security adviser;\u00a0a group of donor nations, including Canada and members of the European Union<\/a>; and\u00a0United Nations experts<\/a>\u00a0all denounced the government\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda’s government is yet to respond to the reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. State Department says it is considering a range of actions against Uganda authorities over the just concluded electoral process that saw President Yoweri Museveni reelected for a sixth term, according to The New York Times. Quoting an email from the US State Department, the NYT says Uganda could be up for tough actions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21176,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions\/21176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}