Tag: Youweri Museveni

Museveni boasts over Bobi Wine’s defeat, says poll most credible since 1962

Wonuola Olujobi

  All eyes are on Ugandan leaders as Court Orders Bobi Wine freed from house arrest Ugandan President Youweri Museveni, 76, has dismissed allegations of vote-rigging against his election for the sixth term, calling the exercise ‘the most cheating-free’ since independence from Britain in 1962. Museveni shutdown the internet during the election and placed his main challenger, Bobi Wine under house arrest. Meanwhile, all eyes are on the 76 year-old President as a Judge ruled on Monday that Ugandan security forces cannot detain presidential challenger Bobi Wine inside his home,…

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Uganda on red alert, switches on internet after days of shutdown

Aoko Benjamin

  Uganda has declared that it remained on red alert as it switched on the internet after it had shut it down on January 13. Spokesman for the East African country, Ofwono Opondo, who declared this in an interview, gave reason for the shutting down of internet during the elections. The model was adopted, according to him, “fearing that it (the internet) would be used to spread messages of hate and violence amid the country’s general elections held on Jan. 14.” He told Xinhua by telephone that the internet had…

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