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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