Emmanuel Akinwotu

81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders and has won a seventh election.

But the polls have been roundly condemned by rights groups amid an internet blackout and several election observers banned from monitoring the vote.

Museveni's main challenger, 43-year-old Bobby Wine, said the results were fake.

Police raided the former pop singer's home on Friday night, but Wine escaped to a safe location, he said, in a video posted on social media.

Dozens of supporters from his National Unity Platform Party were killed by police, he said, including 10 who were monitoring the results.

Police, however, said seven were killed and accused them of attacking a police station.

Emmanuel Akimotu, NPR News, Lagos.

The rapid support forces, formerly allies with the Sunnis army, captured Khartoum when the war erupted in April 2023.

After a brutal occupation of the city, where the RSF were widely accused of widespread looting, torture and sexual violence, the army recaptured the capital last March.

It sparked a wave of returns from among the 5 million people displaced from Khartoum when the war erupted, which the UN says has caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister Kamil Idris said the military-led government had now officially returned to the capital city.

Both sides of the war have been accused of rights abuses, but most by the RSF, who the US and UN says have committed a genocide in the western region of Darfur.

Emmanuel Akimotu, NPR News, Lagos.

really the most dominant factor for insecurity is geography and not religion.

That's not to say that Christians don't face specific threats.

Christians are definitely being targeted.

It's definitely been a very difficult period for Christians, especially in northern and central Nigeria, as insecurity in the country has gotten worse.

But whether they are being targeted more than other groups are, I think that's heavily disputed.

The strikes occurred overnight on Friday morning local time in northwest Nigeria.

ISIS militants were targeted in the attacks, described as deadly by President Trump, but officials have given few details.