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Polling stations have opened across Uganda for the presidential and parliamentary elections, amid growing tension and internet shutdown.
Journalists in Uganda posted photos and videos of queues at polling stations in the capital, Kampala, and across the country.
Polling stations opened at 7:00 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT) and are expected to close at 4:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. GMT), although the election commission said all registered voters who will be in the queue at the time of closing will be allowed their ballots.
Opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine is expected to vote at a polling station on the outskirts of Kampala.
President Yoweri Museveni will vote in his rural home in western Uganda.
#UgandaDecides2021 voting about to start at the Freedom Square polling station. It was heard on the radio that several other polling stations had not yet received voting materials @PMugoMugo pic.twitter.com/C5rsByLd7r
– Catherine Wambua- Soi (@C_SOI) January 14, 2021
Some diplomatic missions have questioned the electoral process, citing the arrest of opposition members in a campaign marked by violence.
They also spoke out against attacks on free speech, after the government told internet providers to cut their services.
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