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The Kampala home of Uganda’s main presidential election contender has been surrounded by security forces, a day after crucial elections.
Provisional results from Uganda’s electoral commission on Friday suggest that President Yoweri Museveni has established an early lead over his main challenger Bobi Wine in the race for the presidency.
Some of the biometric verification machines being used in Uganda’s general elections have malfunctioned, a spokesman of the electoral commission has confirmed as voting got underway on Thursday.
Much is at stake as millions of Ugandans from among 18, 103,603 registered voters queue out to vote in Thursday’s historic general elections.
The United States will not send a mission to Uganda to observe the country’s general elections which will hold on Thursday, the topmost American diplomat in Kampala confirmed on Wednesday.
Uganda’s presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu otherwise known as Bobi Wine, has said that armed state security officers raided his home on Tuesday, two days before the historic vote which pits him and veteran leader Yoweri Museveni.
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu enjoyed relative success as a pop star in Uganda but the musician known by his stage name Bobi Wine is also causing a stir on the political scene ahead of next week’s presidential election.
Death toll has climbed to 29 in three days of protests in Uganda triggered by the arrest of musician-turned-presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, commonly known as Bobi Wine, several Ugandan media reported Friday.
At least 29 people are now known to have been killed as Ugandan police opened fire on demonstrators who took to the streets following Wednesday’s arrest of opposition presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi known as Bobi Wine.
Fire has partly destroyed a mattress factory in Njeru Municipality, located in the central Ugandan district of Buikwe, APA learnt on Monday.