Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Happy birthday Wikipedia.

The online encyclopedia is 20 years old today.

We take a look at how the sites structure and culture have kept it going against the odds,

thriving and growing on an internet that's very different from that of its early years.

And a moral panic is sweeping Afghanistan.

The kids are staying up all night playing a violent video game.

Authorities want to shut it down, but the country's youth shrug it off.

They don't see the government doing much else for them.

First up though.

Poles have closed in Uganda in an election which has been docked by violence

and where the government has this week shut down the internet.

Preliminary results suggest a strong lead for you where you move 70,

who's kept an iron grip on the country for nearly three and a half decades.

His main opponent is Bobby Wein, a singer turned politician.

Final results are expected tomorrow.

The contest has revealed deep fissures between the rich who support Mr. Mousevani

and a younger generation who back Mr. Wein.

These tensions reflect a wider political unease in the region

where concerns are growing about threats to democracy.

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