Uganda's President and the leader of ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, addresses delegates at a ceremony for his nomination as presidential candidate at the Electoral Commission offices, in Kampala, Uganda September 23, 2025. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa
KAMPALA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Uganda's government has ordered two local rights groups to halt their work days before Thursday's election, which the United Nations Human Rights Office says is taking place in an atmosphere of repression and intimidation.
The authorities have detained hundreds of opposition supporters, the UN agency had said in a report in November, ahead of the January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, is looking to extend his four-decade rule.
