Overview
- Courts in Kampala charged at least 118 National Unity Platform members with offences including unlawful assembly, conspiracy and unlawful possession of election materials, according to filings and party lawyers.
- The Electoral Commission declared Yoweri Museveni the winner with 7,946,772 votes, or 71.65%, securing a seventh term on turnout of about 52.5%.
- NUP officials rejected the official tally as fraudulent and alleged intimidation, arrests of agents, ballot stuffing and broader voter suppression at polling sites.
- Bobi Wine said he escaped a night raid on his home and that relatives were confined, while police denied a raid and his location was not disclosed.
- Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame congratulated Museveni and said he looked forward to continued cooperation between the two countries.