Top Ugandan Opposition Officials Arrested After Disputed Vote
Electoral commission officials count votes in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 15.
Photographer: Badru Katumba/BloombergUganda’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.