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Uganda's Bobi Wine says food supplies over amid 'house arrest'

Bobi Wine under house arrest

Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, talks on the phone after talking to members of the media at one of his the gates of his home in Magere, Uganda, on January 15, 2021.

Photo credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Wine's allegations come after the Electoral Commission of Uganda declared Saturday that long-serving President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had won another five-year term in office.
  • On Friday, after he tweeted that the military had taken control of his home, the army and police dismissed the claims, saying he had not been arrested and that they were merely protecting him.

Ugandan politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as musician Bobi Wine says that four days since the military surrounded his home amid a tense general election in the country, his family has run out of food supplies.

Via Twitter on Sunday, he saod he and his wife were placed under house arrest.