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| Uganda polls: Museveni's main rival, Besigye, arrested | |
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| Police have arrested Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate, a day after tightly contested elections, a BBC reporter at the scene says. | Police have arrested Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate, a day after tightly contested elections, a BBC reporter at the scene says. |
| Kizza Besigye was detained during a raid on his party's headquarters in the capital, Kampala, as he was about to hold a press conference. | Kizza Besigye was detained during a raid on his party's headquarters in the capital, Kampala, as he was about to hold a press conference. |
| Tear gas was also fired outside the building, our reporter says. | Tear gas was also fired outside the building, our reporter says. |
| With official results for nearly half of the polling stations announced, President Yoweri Museveni is leading. | With official results for nearly half of the polling stations announced, President Yoweri Museveni is leading. |
| He is running for a fifth term, after 30 years in power. | |
| This is the third time in the space of a week that Mr Besigye has been detained. | |
| The police have not said why he was arrested or where he is being held. | |
| The US embassy in Uganda condemned the crackdown in a post on its Twitter account: | |
| After Mr Besigye was briefly detained on Thursday, the US State Department said the arrest called into question "Uganda's commitment to a transparent and free election process". | |
| It also criticised a temporary shutdown of social media, chat apps and mobile money services. | |
| President Museveni said the decision had been taken for security reasons, and to prevent people from "telling lies". | |
| There is a heavy deployment of police and soldiers in neighbourhoods around the headquarters of Mr Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, reports the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga from Kampala. | There is a heavy deployment of police and soldiers in neighbourhoods around the headquarters of Mr Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, reports the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga from Kampala. |
| President Museveni currently leads with 62% of the vote, while Mr Beisgye has 33%, according to provisional results released by the electoral commission. | |
| Voting is still taking place in a handful of places where the late arrival of election materials meant that polling stations did not open on Thursday. | Voting is still taking place in a handful of places where the late arrival of election materials meant that polling stations did not open on Thursday. |
| Commonwealth election observer mission head Olusegun Obasanjo condemned the failure of voting stations to open on time. | |
| "Delays of three, four, five and even six hours, especially in Kampala, are absolutely inexcusable and will not inspire trust and confidence in the system and the process," he said. | |
| A candidate needs to secure more than 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off with the second-ranked contender. | |
| Ugandans also voted in parliamentary and local elections. | |
| Final results are expected by Saturday. | |
| Major presidential contenders: | Major presidential contenders: |
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