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Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni will extend his 40 year grip on power after winning his seventh consecutive election.

He won by a landslide with more than 70% of the vote, according to the Electoral Commission.

His main challenger, Bobby Wine has disputed the outcome and claims electoral fraud took place.

He has urged Ugandans to protest peacefully.

Election observers also say the election has been marred by intimidation tactics.

DW correspondent Sela Oneko is in Kampala reporting on the elections for us.

President Museveni has secured a seventh term in office.

Yes, it means after 40 years in office, he's basically staying on for another five years.

And for many people, for many young people, I mean, Uganda's population is very, very young.

And so they haven't known any other in their lifetime, many of them.

So that's something that we must keep in mind.

And the other thing is also one of the things that came out in the election results is that there was only just about a 50% voter turnout.

So this could either spell voter apathy that young people or maybe the majority of the population are not interested in voting, but

But what many people on the ground told us also was that they were concerned about the security deployment on the ground around.

So there was a lot of security all over Kampala, all over the country.

And this also seemed to deter people from voting.

Cilla, we're also hearing conflicting reports about what's going on with opposition leader and presidential candidate Bobby Wine.

Wine claims he fled his house as police raided it.

Yes, well, it's been very difficult to find out more about the situation because there's a countrywide Internet shutdown here.

So the only way to communicate with people is via phone.

And there are only very few spots where there is Internet, like this location where I'm talking, speaking to you from.

And so we basically, the newest is that Bobby Wine posted a video on the platform X and he basically said, yes, his house was raided by police at night and he was able to flee, but

his wife is and some family members are still in the house under house arrest.

The police denied that they attempted to arrest him, but.

And that's basically how much what we know at the moment, Wine himself called for peaceful protests.

What's the situation or security situation there right now?

It's a bit difficult to tell because, I mean, a lot of parts of Kampala at least are quite calm, but

there have been a lot of security incidents in different pockets and there is a lot of.

A lot of security forces out in the street.

There were clashes between police and civilians last night and yesterday and the day after and the night after elections.

And we also heard the police confirm that there were fatalities in an area outside Kampala.

And there were lots of reports of tear gas and bullets being shot.

But as we were driving around town just after the announcement of the results, it seemed relatively calm, at least in the areas that we saw.