Uganda’s longtime leader, President Yoweri Museveni, has been declared the winner for a record sixth term amid an internet outage and allegations of fraud.
“Uganda’s election campaigns have been damaged by the harassment of candidates, campaign staff and supporters of the opposition; repression of the media and civil society activities; and a nationwide internet strike before, during and after Election Day,” the report said.
When asked by one of his co-workers, Wine said he had no more food and that Brown could not leave with him.
Wine rejects Saturday’s election results, saying he has evidence of fraud and intimidation. He did not provide details of the alleged evidence, saying his team will share it when communication lines are restored.
CNN received no response to the Ugandan government’s requests for comment.
“For Natalie to doubt that elections would not be ‘credible’ simply because the US embassy voluntarily withdrew from observation is a pointless shooting,” he said in the article he posted on his Twitter page .
“From now on, Natalie should be the last person to deliver unqualified lectures on electoral integrity.”
The U.S. has decided not to hold the election because of the Electoral Commission’s decision to deny more than three-quarters of its accreditation requests, Brown said in a statement Wednesday, a day before the election.
The embassy called on the Museveni government to respect its citizens’ “human rights and fundamental freedoms” and to “uphold international human rights standards”.