Overview
- The communications regulator instructed internet providers to cut public access, citing the need to stop false information and calls to violence before the vote.
- NetBlocks and reporters documented a nationwide disruption starting Tuesday evening, with social media and messaging apps largely unusable.
- No formal government statement has been issued, and an official told AFP that no one wanted to take responsibility for the decision.
- Security forces have broken up opposition events, detained hundreds of Bobi Wine supporters, and officials ordered several local NGOs to suspend operations.
- The shutdown reprises a 2021 blackout during a disputed election as President Yoweri Museveni seeks a seventh term against challenger Bobi Wine.