Top Ugandan Opposition Officials Arrested After Disputed Vote

Electoral commission officials count votes in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 15.

Photographer: Badru Katumba/Bloomberg

Uganda’s main opposition party said one of its top officials had been arrested by security operatives, the third to be detained since last week’s election that handed President Yoweri Museveni a seventh term.

The National Unity Platform said in a post on X that Muwanga Kivumbi, one of its four deputy presidents, was taken into custody on Thursday morning. That followed the “abductions” of two other deputy presidents on Jan. 15, it said.