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Daily Monitor
Monday February 08 2021
There’s hardly an election anywhere in the world where some kind of rigging isn’t a challenge.
My interaction with former regional peacekeeping force commanders, peace builders and high level post-election conflict mediators within the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) and African Union frameworks enabled me to elicit activities that constitute election-related foul play.
Peacekeepers monitor and facilitate observance of ceasefire agreements. True, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces have been invited to participate in many of such operations in Liberia, South Sudan and Somalia, among a few others.
Their duties include other aspects such as monitoring the unintended consequences of holding elections or backing up popular consultations, human rights investigations, humanitarian relief and rebuilding state and physical infrastructures.