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Old 13-01-2021, 07:00 PM #1
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Default Uganda Election : Internet Cut on eve of tense election

Younger Bobi Wine takes on President Yoweri Museveni
Election Tomorrow.

Report On Ch4HDnews
showed Wine with Body armour on
he was visiting a Funeral of a Supporter of him was
Shot Dead.



ABC news:
[KAMPALA, Uganda -- Ugandan authorities appeared
to cut off internet access in the country
Wednesday night on the eve of a tense
presidential election, while a lawyer for
leading opposition candidate Bobi Wine
said all contact had been lost with him.
“Confirmed: Uganda is now in the midst
of a nation-scale internet blackout,”
watchdog NetBlocks said in a statement
saying connectivity levels had dropped
to 33% of usual levels. Ugandans using
leading internet service providers MTN
and Airtel said they could no longer get online.

The U.S.-based counsel for Wine, Bruce Afran,
told reporters that the candidate “is now
in his compound with his wife and a
single staff member who is unarmed
and is not security personnel ... Security
and police
are stationed outside his home
and effectively encircled it.”]


https://abcnews.go.com/International...enied-75216727


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