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Hello and welcome to Newsout from the World Service of the BBC coming live from London.

This is Owen Bennett-Jones.

When Yuwere Maseveni first won power in Uganda back in 1986, he was seen as a political

pioneer ushering in a new age of African politics.

The problem of Africa he declared back then is leaders who want to overstay in power.

Thirty-nine years later, he is still in power and expected to get yet another

term when the results of the latest presidential election are announced. That's happening right now,

and we'll get a live update in just a moment. As Ugandan's are waiting for that result,

there was confusion about what had happened to the opposition leader Bobby Wine and his wife.

Some reports suggested they'd been abducted from their home in Kampala, the capital.

Officials denied that.

And this is what Bobby Wine's son, Solomon, said earlier today.

I have received some information that amidst the raids, my father and presidential candidate

Chagulani St. Tamu was able to escape from the military as they were breaking into the home

and destroying all the property. But currently, at this moment, my mother, Barbara Chagulani,

is still under house arrest.

No one is allowed to come in.

She's not allowed to get out.

The situation is still very unsafe.

Well, since that statement was made by the son, Bobby Wynne confirmed that he's managed to escape, he said, during the night raid by security forces, no longer at his home.

Although his wife and other relatives, he says, are under house arrest. Now, I spoke a while ago, about an hour or two ago, to Rose Troop Buchanan. I should say just now, the news is coming in. Uganda's Maseveni wins seventh presidential term. That's from the Electoral Commission, so that's now official.

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