Uganda Goes to the Polls Amid Promises of Economic Development and Accusations of Repression

[Agenzia Fides] Kampala -- Uganda is preparing to hold presidential elections on January 15. As in other countries on the continent, the Ugandan election is marked by the confrontation between a president who has governed the country for decades - Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986 - and a political opponent, Robert Kyagulanyi, a former rapper also known as Bobi Wine, who is running for the second time after his 2021 candidacy and who has long denounced the government's increasingly authoritarian policies.