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Facebook posts circulating in Uganda show several images alongside a claim that they depict recent demonstrations in two Ugandan cities. The claim is false; the photos have been online since November 2020 when supporters of opposition leader Bobi Wine protested the politicianâs detention by state security forces while campaigning ahead of this yearâs presidential election.
The series of five images appeared in this post on a Facebook page called âKirya Emmanuel Journalistâ. The post has been shared more than 50 times since it was published on March 10, 2021.
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A Facebook account using the name and photo of a Ugandan police spokesman has been spreading false information, including that former presidential candidate Bobi Wine is planning violent demonstrations in Uganda. This Facebook account, however, does not belong to the spokesman, Commissioner Fred
Enanga, who dismissed the account as fake. He added that the Ugandan police have not issued statements regarding any planned violence.
A post published on a Facebook page called “Afande Enanga Fred” on February 20, 2021 claims that Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine is planning violent demonstrations across the country to protest the January presidential election results.
Uganda: UNHCR Operational Update, 1 – 31 January 2021
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The Ugandan borders have remained closed for asylum since March 2020 due to COVID-19. However, spontaneuos movements to/from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued via unofficial crossing points, owing to the dire humanitarian situation in these countries. cannot be fully verified and accounted These movements cannot be fully verified and accounted for.
COVID-19 UPDATE
Cumulatively, as of 31 January 2021, there were 39,314 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of whom, 381 were refugees and 277 humanitarian workers.
The cumulative number includes 14,114 recoveries, 372 of whom were refugees and 229 humanitarian workers.
Deaths reported were 318 since March 2020, six of whom were refugees and one humanitarian worker.
The World Should Not Look Away From Uganda s Undemocratic Elections A man walks past a painting on the wall of the Ugandan electoral commission compound in Kampala, Uganda January 13, 2021 Baz Ratner / REUTERS January 14, 2021
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On January 14, Uganda will hold national elections, an exercise that is shaping up to be more of an opportunity for incumbent President Yoweri Museveni to demonstrate the repressive power of the state than a chance for Uganda’s population to express its political will. Museveni, in power since 1986, has taken no chances. Several of his challengers, including the most prominent opposition leader, Bobi Wine, have been threatene
Uganda election, Museveni and Bobi Wine
Uganda election, Museveni and Bobi Wine
The people of Uganda came out en masse to exercise their franchise in the country’s general election (presidential and parliamentary) held on January 14, 2021.
The main focus was on the presidential election in which the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) slugged it out with his major challenger, the candidate of the National Unity Platform, NUP, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
At the end of voting by the electorate in the presidential poll, which had nine other candidates, Uganda’s Electoral Commission chaired by Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, announced Museveni, the long-time Ugandan leader as the winner, having garnered a total vote of 5.85 million (58.64%) leaving Kyagulanyi with 3.48 million votes (34.83%).