KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine s party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni s election win and condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine, as news emerged of two people killed in protests over the result. Protests broke out on Saturday after results from Thursday s election were announced in two areas, Luwero district north of Kampala and Masaka to the southwest, and security forces killed two people and arrested 23 in total, NTV Uganda reported on Sunday, citing local police. No other details were immediately available about the protests. A nationwide internet blackout since the day before the vote has slowed the flow of information about the process. We have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice and after putting it together we are going to take all measures that the law permits to challenge this fraud, Maathias Mpuuga of Wine s National Unity Party (NUP) told a news conference. On Sa
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Sunday January 17 2021
President Museveni celebrates his nomination at the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party offices in Kampala last year. Electoral Commission yesterday declared him winner of the 2021 presidential election. PHOTO /FILE
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President Museveni was in combat mood and kept on his military camouflage jacket yesterday night as he addressed the country hours after being declared winner of the January 14 election.
The President had showed up to cast his ballot in the same military jacket on Thursday, which he had also appeared in during an address two days to the election.
Donning the military jacket during the first press conference after he was declared winner was significant, for it was a clear indication that there would be no niceties.
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party said Sunday that it would challenge his loss in the recent presidential election.
"We have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice and after putting it together we are going to take all measures that the law permits to challenge this fraud," Mathias Mpuuga of Wine's National Unity Party (NUP) told a news conference Sunday, a day after Uganda’s election commission declared President Yoweri Museveni the winner of the 2021 general elections.
Since seizing control of Uganda in 1986, Museveni, 76, has ruled the country
President Yoweri Museveni was named the winner of Uganda's contentious presidential election on Saturday, with the country's electoral commission confirming a