UGANDA - POLITICS - VOTE
UGANDA, Rukungiri: Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye (C) arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in his home town of Rukungiri, some 400 kilometres west of the capital Kampala on February 18, 2016, during presidential and parliamentary elections.Ugandan police arrested top presidential challenger Kizza Besigye on February 18 as polls closed, his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party said. Besigye has been arrested and we do not know where he is, the FDC said, without giving further details. There was no immediate police confirmation, but Besigye has been repeatedly detained by police in the past, and is commonly released without charge hours later.
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