Ugandan MP and Bobi Wine ally arrested over election violence

Ugandan police arrested Muwanga Kivumbi, an MP and ally of opposition leader Bobi Wine, for allegedly organizing election-related violence following last week's elections. Police accuse Kivumbi of orchestrating attacks on a police station and vote-tallying center after the electoral loss. Kivumbi claims ten people were killed at his home while awaiting election results, a different account from the police who say seven died. The arrest follows tensions after President Yoweri Museveni's re-election for a seventh term, which Wine has denounced as fraudulent. Museveni warned opposition figures, including Kivumbi, of planned attacks on polling stations. Dozens of youths have been arrested in Kampala for election-related incidents.

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