{"id":8210,"date":"2021-01-14T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/africa\/article\/3117782\/ugandans-vote-charged-election-between-long-time-leader-yoweri"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:39:01","slug":"ugandans-vote-in-charged-election-between-long-time-leader-yoweri-museveni-and-singer-bobi-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/ugandans-vote-in-charged-election-between-long-time-leader-yoweri-museveni-and-singer-bobi-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans vote in charged election between long-time leader Yoweri Museveni and singer Bobi Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"Ugandans lined up to vote in a tense election Thursday under heavy security and an internet blackout as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni sought a sixth term against a former pop star half his age.The internet went down on the eve of the vote, with some parts of the country reporting complete disruptions or significant slowdowns, after one of the most violent campaigns in years.Museveni is seeking a sixth term in office, having ruled for almost four decades, against singer-turned-MP Bobi Wine, 38,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/africa\/article\/3117782\/ugandans-vote-charged-election-between-long-time-leader-yoweri\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandans lined up to vote in a tense election Thursday under heavy security and an internet blackout as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni sought a sixth term against a former pop star half his age.The internet went down on the eve of the vote, with some p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}