Tanzania's general elections were on the whole peaceful, however, with the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi garnering a huge majority in Parliament, the legislature has no chance of holding the Executive to account. In Kenya months of high voltage acrimony in the Cabinet culminated in voters rejecting a government-supported constitutional draft. In Uganda,the incarceration of opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye, does not augur well for the country's democracy.