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'We have to free ourselves': Bobi Wine urges Ugandans to reject election result

"Our people are being massacred," Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine told RFI. © AP - Nicholas Bamulanzeki

A week after Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected for a seventh term, opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has evidence the polls were rigged. In an interview with RFI, he calls for peaceful protests – and a firmer stance from the international community.

Wine, head of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP), officially won 25 percent of the vote compared to 72 percent for Museveni.

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