Overview
- Uganda’s Electoral Commission declared President Yoweri Museveni the winner with 71.65% of the vote, with Bobi Wine at 24.72%.
- Bobi Wine says he escaped a police and army raid and is in hiding, reporting his family under house arrest, while the army and police deny detaining him and cite controlled access to his residence.
- A nationwide internet shutdown remains in place, limiting communications and disrupting independent monitoring and reporting.
- Regional observer missions from the African Union, IGAD and COMESA, led by Goodluck Jonathan, cited intimidation, arrests and abductions that eroded public trust, as biometric failures forced a fallback to paper registers.
- Authorities and opposition offered conflicting accounts of deadly post‑vote violence, with police reporting seven fatalities in Butambala and an opposition MP alleging 10 people were killed by security forces.