Uganda, Feb. 27 -- The fresh elections for the Bagwere cultural leader ordered by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development are hanging in the balance after one of the parallel leaders applied to Mbale High Court seeking an injunction.

Mr Balaam Kintu Pagholi Mubbala, a cultural head, through his lawyers, sought the court's intervention last week.

This comes two weeks after the February 1, meeting chaired by the Gender minister, Ms Betty Amongi, in which they had agreed to hold fresh elections.

The meeting was attended by the three rival camps headed by respective cultural heads, among them Mr Mubbala, Mr Joshua Musimami, and Mr Geoffrey Weyabire Jr, as part of efforts to harmonise and draw strategies to have a legitimate c...