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The European Union and the US have called for a probe into Uganda’s election violence even as the opposition leader Bobi Wine remains under house arrest.
The incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, was declared the winner for a record sixth term, amid an internet blackout and allegations of abuse.
Uganda’s opposition leaders and supporters have complained of numerous harassment by the state security before and after the election.
Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observer’s offices were raided, said the EU council of ministers in a statement on Wednesday, 20 January.
Ugandan President Museveni arrests opposition rival Bobbi Wine
After declaring victory and a sixth, five-year term in office with a much-reduced majority, President Yoweri Museveni put his main opposition rival, the 38-year-old musician Bobbi Wine of the newly formed National Unity Platform party (NUP), under house arrest.
When protests erupted after the announcement of the election results widely seen as rigged, amid rising social and economic hardship in the wake of the pandemic, the security forces dispersed the crowds, killing at least two people, and cordoned off the party’s offices in the capital Kampala.
Speaking to the media surrounded by soldiers and police, Wine said he was “worried about my life and the life of my wife.”
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Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said Brown had no business visiting Wine, who the army says is being held to prevent potential unrest breaking out in the wake of the result. Picture: REUTERS.
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda accused the U.S. ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by security forces since the vote.
Troops prevented pop star-turned-legislator Bobi Wine from leaving his house shortly after he returned from voting in Thursday’s presidential election, in which he ran against incumbent Yoweri Museveni.
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