Yoweri Museveni wins Uganda election
KAMPALA: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won the country's first multi-party polls since 1980, according to official results released Saturday giving him an insurmountable lead over opposition challenger Kizza Besigye. The Electoral Commission said Museveni had taken 60.8 percent of Thursday's vote to Besigye's 36 percent with 91 percent of polling stations reporting, making his bid to extend a 20-year hold on power an unannounced certainty.
Posted by: Fred 2006-02-26 |