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Bold Wine in new battles: Uganda’s election

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The Economist

News & Politics, News

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After a violent campaign in which the opposition candidate Bobi Wine was extensively intimidated, authorities imposed an internet blackout. President Yoweri Museveni will almost certainly cling to power—a worry for Uganda and the wider region. Wikipedia turns 20 today; we ask how, against long odds, it has survived and grown. And the video game that’s sparking a moral panic in Afghanistan.

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0:00.0

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.

0:17.3

Happy birthday, Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia is 20 years old today. We take a look at how

0:23.6

the site's structure and culture have kept it going against the odds, thriving and growing on an

0:29.5

internet that's very different from that of its early years. And a moral panic is sweeping Afghanistan.

0:37.1

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

0:41.2

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

0:45.7

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

0:56.3

First up, though.

1:07.3

Polls have closed in Uganda in an election which has been dogged by violence and where the government has this week shut down the internet.

1:12.1

Preliminary results suggest a strong lead for Yuwari Museveni,

1:17.5

who's kept an iron grip on the country for nearly three and a half decades. His main opponent is Bobby Wine, a singer turned politician. Final results are expected tomorrow.

1:24.5

The contest has revealed deep fissures between the rich who support Mr. Museveni and a younger generation

1:30.6

who back Mr. Wine. These tensions reflect a wider political unease in the region, where concerns

1:37.1

are growing about threats to democracy. So I'm standing in the back garden of Bobby Wyand.

1:44.2

Liam Taylor writes for the economist and is based in Kampala.

1:47.6

He's come out to speak to the press just moments ago and said that the election has seen

1:52.8

the worst rigging in Ugandan history.

1:55.6

He described himself as the president-elect and said he is winning by far.

1:59.9

So he certainly thinks he's won this vote.

2:02.4

And has he won?

2:03.6

So some Ugandan media stations are putting out preliminary results from the votes which

2:08.8

have come in so far, suggesting that the incumbent president, Stephanie has a very healthy

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