Uganda’s opposition leader ‘taken by army’ as Museveni nears re-election

Bobi Wine casts his vote in Uganda’s general election. His party wrote later on Thursday that the military and police had surrounded his house. Photograph: Michel Lunanga/Getty Images

The Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was taken from his house and brought to an unknown location on Friday, his party said as President Yoweri Museveni closed in on a landslide re-election.

Wine’s National Unity Platform party said on Friday evening in a post on X that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in the capital, Kampala, and “forcibly taken him away to an unknown destination”.