{"id":25594,"date":"2026-01-15T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:26:08","slug":"opposition-in-uganda-alleges-rigging-as-votes-are-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25594\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition in Uganda alleges rigging as votes are counted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Votes are being counted in parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/uganda-imposes-internet-blackout-ahead-of-presidential-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uganda<\/a> amidst an internet shutdown, with opposition leaders accusing the government of rigging the presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Massive ballot-stuffing reported everywhere,&#8221; declared presidential hopeful Bobi Wine in a post on social media, without providing documentary proof,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2xn1yvgr4o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The authorities have not responded to his allegations of electoral fraud, nor to his claim that &#8220;many&#8221; polling agents and supervisors belonging to his NUP party were &#8220;abducted, and others chased off polling stations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Delays of up to four hours have been blamed on malfunctioning biometric machines used to verify voters&#8217; identities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Votes are being counted in parts of Uganda amidst an internet shutdown, with opposition leaders accusing the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1260,15744,153,11314],"class_list":{"0":"post-25594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-electoral-fraud","10":"tag-uganda","11":"tag-voting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25594","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=25594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}