Unofficial results show reelection of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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With votes tallied from about 50% of polling places, incumbent President Yoweri Museveni is projected to win reelection in Uganda. Also, Indian authorities continue searching for an elephant that’s already killed 22 people in the first two weeks of 2026. And, Sara Mardini, who was arrested for helping rescue migrants from the sea in 2018, is acquitted of her charges in Greece. Plus, searching for the best mıhlama for breakfast in Turkey.
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| 0:00.0 | Uganda wraps up a presidential election that no one really thinks was free or fair. |
| 0:10.2 | The treatment of the opposition, everything that has happened, has been quite shocking. |
| 0:14.9 | I have to say, no surprise is it. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:17.9 | Authorities in India are trying to hunt down a single elephant that's killed almost two dozen people. |
| 0:23.8 | They're using drones, and they've asked experts from neighboring states to help. |
| 0:28.1 | But in the meantime, they're asking people to please stay indoors at night, avoid the forests. |
| 0:32.2 | We'll hear what it's like to be on the front lines of fighting wildfire in Australia and how this Chinese American woman |
| 0:39.0 | united her ambition with her roots on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. That's where I found love |
| 0:45.4 | with food, flavor, and freshness. That was the community that raised me. All that and more coming up |
| 0:52.9 | on the world. This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for |
| 0:59.9 | joining us today. In Uganda, Yawari Mosavani looks likely to extend his 40-year rule with another term in office. |
| 1:09.6 | Provisional results from Thursday's vote show him well ahead of the |
| 1:12.3 | main opposition candidate. This election has been marred by voting delays and allegations of ballot |
| 1:17.7 | stuffing, security concerns, and internet blackouts. Ebenezer Obadare is an African Studies |
| 1:23.8 | Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. I asked him if this was a fair |
| 1:28.9 | election. It wasn't a fair election. Nobody expected it to be a fair election. Even the leading |
| 1:35.6 | candidate, Bobby Wine, I'm sure he fully expected President Museveni to win. So the treatment of |
| 1:42.7 | the opposition, everything that has happened has been quite |
| 1:46.0 | shocking, but I have to say no surprises here. Yeah, so tell me more about what has happened and how |
| 1:51.3 | the opposition has been treated. So if you listen to, I'm finding to a couple of statements, |
| 1:56.7 | one by the United Nations Human Rights Agency, and I believe that was another one by Amnesty International. |
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