{"id":23762,"date":"2026-01-14T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/23762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:18:08","slug":"museveni-adviser-exudes-confidence-he-will-win-uganda-election-with-at-least-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/23762\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni adviser exudes confidence he will win Uganda election with &#8216;at least 70%&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">A senior Ugandan official on Wednesday defended the internet shutdown implemented ahead of elections, saying it was necessary to prevent &#8220;riots and misinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The East African country goes to the polls on Thursday in a vote that President Yoweri Museveni will seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The authorities <a target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtafrika.com\/article\/ab3ae0e09fb9\">shut off access<\/a> to the internet on Tuesday, citing violence fears.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Presidential adviser, Hajat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye, defended the move, saying: &#8220;Internet creates wars, riots, misinformation. They (authorities) had to shut down the internet because of the misinformation from different stakeholders,&#8221; she told AFP.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Exudes confidence that Museveni will win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Ugandan official on Wednesday defended the internet shutdown implemented ahead of elections, saying it was necessary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[153],"class_list":{"0":"post-23762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}