{"id":28484,"date":"2026-01-17T04:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/28484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:39:30","slug":"uganda-election-bobi-wine-under-house-arrest-amid-violence-claims-museveni-nears-5th-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/28484\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda election: Bobi Wine under house arrest amid violence claims, Museveni nears 5th term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Uganda\u2019s opposition said its leader Bobi Wine was under house arrest on Friday, after an election that also saw a member of parliament accuse security forces of killing 10 people at his home.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Yoweri Museveni, 81, is seeking to extend his 40-year rule of the east African country and has been accused of \u201cbrutal repression\u201d of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Uganda\u2019s Electoral Commission said on Friday that Museveni was on 75.4 per cent to Wine\u2019s 20.7 with close to 60 per cent of votes counted. Final results are expected on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authorities imposed an internet blackout during the election that was still in place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wine, 43, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has emerged as the main challenger to Museveni in recent years. The former singer styles himself the \u201cghetto president\u201d after the slum areas of Kampala where he grew up.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe military and police have surrounded the residence of President Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, effectively placing him and his wife under house arrest,\u201d his party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), wrote on social media late on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s opposition said its leader Bobi Wine was under house arrest on Friday, after an election that also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[13705,16653,1120,17438,4274,1913,153,17437,2564,17436],"class_list":{"0":"post-28484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-butambala","10":"tag-kampala","11":"tag-muwanga-kivumbi","12":"tag-national-unity-platform","13":"tag-robert-kyagulanyi","14":"tag-uganda","15":"tag-ugandas-electoral-commission","16":"tag-yoweri-museveni","17":"tag-zahara-nampewo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484","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=28484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}