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Tension grips Kampala as Museveni leads and residents await election results

Kampala remained tense and unusually quiet on Friday as Ugandans waited for the final results of the presidential election, with uncertainty gripping the capital.

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00:00Kampala is holding its breath as Ugandans await the final results of the presidential election.
00:07Revisional figures from about half of polling stations show President Uriah Museveni leading with over 70%,
00:14while his main challenger, opposition figure Bobby Ryan, trails on 19%.
00:21The uncertainty has brought the capital to a standstill.
00:26The situation accordingly is so calm, we have not yet come back to working in our normal ways,
00:35because you see the shops here, they are down, and for us we are in the transport system,
00:41we have no clients, the internet is down, some customers, we contacted them online,
00:49so we are in a very bad situation accordingly.
00:54Financially, we are down also because there are no clients.
00:58That's why you have found us here, we are bored.
01:02We have not yet come back to our normal situation as we used to be.
01:07Bobby Ryan had hoped to end Uriah Museveni's four-decade rule,
01:12but the vote unfolded under heavy military deployment.
01:15With tight security surrounding Ryan's home near Kampala, now residents are glued to updates,
01:21uncertain and anxious about what comes next.
01:23Generally, the entire situation is a bit, it's a bit, it's a bit, how should I say?
01:31It's a bit scary, because it's not normal.
01:34Because you can see I've been moving around, and the shops, all shops are closed,
01:38and everyone is just in corners, somehow hiding.
01:42Maybe waiting to see after, like after maybe, after announcing the winner,
01:46maybe that's when the business will normalise.
01:50At 81, Museveni is already Africa's third-longest-serving leader
01:54and is now pushing to extend his rule into a fifth decade.
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