Overview
- Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba said he was giving Bobi Wine 48 hours to surrender and posted that security forces had killed 22 National Unity Platform members, adding he was praying the next would be Wine.
- The Electoral Commission declared President Yoweri Museveni the winner with 7,946,772 votes (71.65%), securing a seventh term as the National Unity Platform rejected the tally.
- Bobi Wine reported a night raid on his home, said he escaped and is in hiding, and accused authorities of fraud and repression, while police denied detaining him.
- Court documents show at least 118 NUP supporters were charged in Kampala with offences including unlawful assembly and conspiracy, which party officials say targeted polling agents.
- Rights groups condemned pre‑ and post‑election abuses and an internet shutdown, AFP debunked a viral ballot‑stuffing video as footage from 2016, and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame publicly congratulated Museveni.