Yusra Elbagir

The despair that comes with that was very real, very palpable.

I did speak to the prime minister of Uganda as the results were declared.

She was there kind of representing the state in the National Tally Center.

And I asked her, is this a free and fair election?

She goes, it was, it was, very quickly before I finished.

So I asked, you know, then why are the military and police deployed in the streets?

And she said, well, no, the military and the police are deployed because there are agents of chaos and there are people who are rejecting and creating anarchy.

And that's always the response.

So there's this intense militarization around a process that's meant to be democratic.

And then when people are hurt and brutalized by that show of force,

they're called criminals.

But we were there when opposition party officials were calling the government criminals.

So this was not a free and fair election.

Just by the sheer intensity of the militarization.

If we get down to the votes and vote rigging, I think that's going to be quite a process to prove.

But the climate was not a climate of democratic.

It was not a democratic exercise by any means.

It was definitely an authoritarian process of fake legitimacy.

So to just talk about maybe lucidity, I found him to be

quite lucid.