Police and soldiers have surrounded the home of Uganda’s main opposition leader, placing him under house arrest, just hours after voting ended in a tightly controlled election that is expected to prolong the 40-year rule of President Yoweri Museveni.
Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, a 43-year-old singer and musician known as Bobi Wine, has drawn huge crowds at his campaign rallies across Uganda in recent weeks. But security forces routinely blocked his travel, disrupted his events, detained hundreds of his supporters, roughed up journalists covering him, and fired tear gas and water cannons at those who lined the roads to see him.
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