Uganda restricts imports of Starlink equipment weeks before election


FILE PHOTO: Motorcycle taxis ride past campaign posters of Uganda's President and leader of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, ahead of the upcoming general election in Kampala, Uganda October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Miriam Watsemba/File Photo

KAMPALA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Uganda's government ‌has restricted imports of Starlink satellite internet equipment weeks before a national ‌election at which the opposition fears the government will again impose ‌an internet blackout.

President Yoweri Museveni, 81, will seek to extend his rule in the East African nation to nearly half a century in the January 15 vote, which pits him against pop star-turned-politician ‍Bobi Wine, 43, for the second time.

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