{"id":25097,"date":"2026-01-15T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25097\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:44:11","slug":"uganda-elections-voting-hit-by-technical-glitches-amid-internet-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25097\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda elections: Voting hit by technical glitches amid internet shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Museveni acknowledged even he had trouble and promised to investigate. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;I put my right&#8230; thumbprint. The machine did not accept it. I put my left, it did not accept it,&#8221; he told journalists, adding that the machine finally accepted a scan of his face, allowing him to vote.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">There was a heavy security presence in many areas and police have warned the vote is &#8220;not a justification for criminal acts&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The government said the internet shutdown was needed to prevent the spread of &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and &#8220;incitement to violence&#8221;, but the United Nations called it &#8220;deeply worrying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The president said his vote, when it was finally cast, was for anyone &#8220;who believes in Uganda&#8230; who believes in Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Museveni acknowledged even he had trouble and promised to investigate. &#8220;I put my right&#8230; thumbprint. The machine did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[153],"class_list":{"0":"post-25097","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\/25097","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=25097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}