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Museveni gets another five years to rule Uganda with landslide election victory

KAMPALA, February 20, 2011 (AFP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni cruised to a new five-year term Sunday, taking more than two thirds of the vote in elections the opposition said were marred by fraud. Museveni, 66, was comfortably re-elected at the helm of the east African country, soon to become an oil-producing nation, with 68.38 percent of Friday's vote, according to full provisional results. "The commission declares the candidate Yoweri Museveni elected president of the Republic of Uganda," commission chairman Badru Kiggundu said. His main rival Kizza Besigye, who ran as the leader of the Inter-party Cooperation (IPC) opposition platform, lost to the veteran leader for the third time, after garnering only 26.01 percent of the vote. The turnout stood at 59.9 percent, a weaker performance than the 69 percent achieved during the 2006 presidential election. Reacting moments earlier to near-complete results by the [...]

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