Uganda's Election Loser Now Has the World's Attention
President Museveni’s win leaves him facing international opprobrium and a powerful domestic opponent.
A T-shirt with printed portrait of Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine.
Photographer: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFPBobi Wine was being overly optimistic when he declared that the world was watching Uganda’s Jan. 14 general election. Even had it not been distracted by the drama of the U.S. election aftermath, the world still would have found it hard to watch the vote in Uganda, since it took place amid an internet blackout imposed by President Yoweri Museveni’s government.
But it was possible to guess what was happening based on the tense run-up to the election, which pitted Museveni against Wine, a reggae-star-turned-politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi.