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UK minister who saluted Uganda’s election had local business interests
February 3, 2021 Emmanuel Katongole
Britain’s minister for Africa, who endorsed disputed election results in Uganda, worked until recently for a company in which one of the country’s richest businessmen and an ally of its president plays a leading role, Declassified UK has found.
The revelation comes after the UK’s Foreign Office whitewashed the reelection of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, despite diplomats from the US and Europe raising serious concerns over voter suppression and access for international observers.
Dozens died on the campaign trail and Ugandan soldiers illegally held opposition leader Bobi Wine under house arrest after the poll – but Britain’s Africa minister, James Duddridge MP, was criticized by experts after he described the election as “relatively calm.”