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Seventh time lucky for Museveni

The only unknown in Uganda’s election is the margin of the incumbent’s violent victory, as citizens look forward with alarm to the prospect of his son’s rule

Ahead of polling day on 15 January the streets of Kampala were thronged not with citizens, but with lines of armoured personnel carriers and uniformed police and soldiers who were, according to the government, merely making ‘sure everyone is safe and assured’, according to a 10 January X post by the army’s spokesman. This will mark President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s seventh presidential election victory since seizing power in 1986.

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