Multiparty advocates are planning a national forum to boycott next year’s referendum on political pluralism, the semi-official ‘New Vision’ reported. At a meeting on Wednesday in Kampala, they said freedom of association was a basic human right which superceded the verdict of a referendum. Meanwhile, Uganda’s ambassador to Germany has quit the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and returned to his former party, the Uganda Patriotic Movement. “This corruption among the top leadership of the NRM really bothers me,” he told the private ‘Monitor’ newspaper.
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