Uganda's electoral commission has declared incumbent President Yoweri Museveni the winner of the country's 2016 elections. Museveni won with 60.7% of the votes while his closest competitor, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, had 35.3. Museveni has been in office since his rebel group seized power in 1986. Our panel today included” Toni Singoro: Channel Africa News Correspondent based in Kampala, Uganda, Emeka Johnson head of communication from the African Diaspora Forum, Maria Burnett, senior Human Rights Watch Researcher based in Kampala and Israel Mkhize who is a political commentator on African issues.
