{"id":26619,"date":"2026-01-16T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/26619\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:09","slug":"ugandas-president-museveni-takes-strong-lead-in-early-election-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/26619\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s President Museveni takes strong lead in early election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YMF7GAVTLJNI5FOAKUPM2OJTBU-820x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636933\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>Uganda\u2019s President and the leader of ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, addresses delegates at a ceremony for his nomination as presidential candidate at the Electoral Commission offices, in Kampala, Uganda September 23, 2025. REUTERS\/Abubaker Lubowa<\/p>\n<p>KAMPALA, Jan 16 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Veteran Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held a commanding lead in early election results announced on Friday, while the party of his main challenger, Bobi Wine, said its leader was under effective house arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s President and the leader of ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, addresses delegates at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[321,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-26619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-east-africa","9":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619","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=26619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}