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Uganda elections failed democracy test

It did not come as a surprise that the Uganda Electoral Commission declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner of last week's presidential election with 60 per cent of the vote.

From the time the campaigns began in earnest, the main opposition candidates Kizza Besigye and Amama Mbabazi had been subjected to constant police harassment, intimidation and countless arrests.

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