US EditionUganda’s president says strong election victory over his youthful challenger a taste of his strength
Museveni secured over 71.6% of votes amid 52% turnout, with opposition alleging fraud, internet shutdown, and violence affecting election credibility.
- On Sunday, President Yoweri Museveni said his landslide win showed National Resistance Movement dominance after official results show he took more than 71.6% against Bobi Wine's 24.7%.
- Addressing the turnout, Museveni said voter turnout stood at 52%, the lowest since 2006, and suggested many who didn't vote were members of the National Resistance Movement.
- Voting was disrupted by a dayslong internet shutdown and biometric voter identification machine failures that delayed voting in Kampala, while Bobi Wine alleged ballot-box stuffing and posted footage on X on Sunday.
- Museveni will serve a seventh term, bringing him closer to five decades in power, while Wine, 43, may launch legal challenges though courts have rejected past opposition efforts.
- Historic context shows term limits and age restrictions were removed, possible rivals jailed, and veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye remains imprisoned, while Uganda has lacked peaceful power transfers since independence six decades ago.
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Uganda’s President Museveni Declared Winner in Elections Amid Repression
Click to expand Image President Yowerei Museveni speaks during a news conference in Entebbe, Uganda, July 26, 2022. © 2022 Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo Uganda’s electoral commission has declared President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 15 elections, securing his seventh term in office with 71 percent of the vote. The weeks leading up to the elections were marred by rights abuses. Security officers reportedly beat and arrested hundred…
Uganda's Elections and the Illusion of Democracy
Guest Column - Uganda’s most recent elections were officially declared “peaceful” and “successful,” yet for many Ugandans they felt anything but democratic. When a government claims a landslide victory but simultaneously shuts down the internet, suppresses protests, and moves to arrest its main challenger, citizens are right to ask uncomfortable questions. If the process was truly free and fair, why did it require so much force to sustain it?
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Uganda's president says strong election victory over his youthful challenger a taste of his strength
President Yoweri Museveni says his landslide victory in Uganda's election shows his party's dominance. He declared this on Sunday after being announced the winner.
Uganda's president says election victory over young challenger shows his strength
President Yoweri Museveni has told the nation that his landslide victory in Uganda’s election showed the dominance of his party which has governed this east African country for four decades
Five more years, again
Museveni during the campaigns Museveni bounces back with a decisive 71% victory, his highest since 1996, amid NUP’s protest vote COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | In his seventh election and at the ripe old age of 81 years, President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni appears to have set a new record in his 40-year reign when he was declared winner of the 2026 presidential election with a 71% victory over main opponent Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Win…
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