Voters in
Uganda go to the polls for a general election to elect a new
President of Uganda as well as for parliamentary and local elections. The Presidential race with eight candidates including incumbent
Yoweri Museveni and seven challengers is tipped to be the closest in the nation's history.
(BBC)
Kizza Besigye, the main opposition presidential candidate, is "briefly" arrested after the polls close in
Naguru, trying to get into a police command center in the capital
Kampala. Besigye, who's challenged President Musveni in the last three elections, has been repeatedly arrested, roughed up, or confined to house arrest during that time.
(AP via Sky News Australia)(The Globe and Mail)(The New York Times)
Voters in
Uganda go to the polls for a general election to elect a new
President of Uganda as well as for parliamentary and local elections. The Presidential race with eight candidates including incumbent
Yoweri Museveni and seven challengers is tipped to be the closest in the nation's history.
(BBC)
Kizza Besigye, the main opposition presidential candidate, is "briefly" arrested after the polls close in
Naguru, trying to get into a police command center in the capital
Kampala. Besigye, who's challenged President Musveni in the last three elections, has been repeatedly arrested, roughed up, or confined to house arrest during that time.
(AP via Sky News Australia)(The Globe and Mail)(The New York Times)