Uganda's General Election faced significant delays due to widespread malfunctions of bio-metric voter registration machines, forcing the Electoral Commission to revert to manual voter registers. President Yoweri Museveni, seeking a seventh term, ordered an investigation after his own biometric verification failed.

• Approximately 21.7 million registered voters across 50,739 polling stations were affected.
• The Electoral Commission directed officers to use national voter registers to prevent voter disenfranchisement.
• President Museveni, Africa’s longest-serving leader, expressed ambitions to win by 80% if no cheating occurred.
• The election will also decide 353 constituency seats and 146 District Woman Representative seats in Parliament.
• Internet access was suspended ahead of voting day, with the Uganda’s Communications Commission citing reasons of misinformation prevention.