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Peter Mwai BBC Confirm senior journalist, reporting from Nairobi, Kenya

<img alt="A graphic from Netblocks showing how internet connectivity in Uganda dropped dramatically on between Tuesday and Wednesday" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/14/ebb5e432-ca40-45d7-95f2-ee23199529ab.jpg.webp 240w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/320/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/14/ebb5e432-ca40-45d7-95f2-ee23199529ab.jpg.webp 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/480/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/14/ebb5e432-ca40-45d7-95f2-ee23199529ab.jpg.webp 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/14/ebb5e432-ca40-45d7-95f2-ee23199529ab.jpg.webp 624w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/14/ebb5e432-ca40-45d7-95f2-ee23199529ab.jpg.webp 800w" width="1920" height="1080" class="ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950"/> Picture supply, Netblocks.org Web monitoring organisation Netblocks has confirmed main disruption to web connectivity in Uganda forward of normal elections on Thursday.

Netblocks recorded a drop off of community connectivity on Tuesday night to about 20%.

This coincides with an order by Uganda’s communications fee to web service suppliers to droop public entry to the web.

The fee has stated is to “mitigate the fast unfold of on-line misinformation, disinformation, electoral fraud” and stop incitement of violence.

However Netblocks warns that “removed from halting misinformation, the measure is more likely to restrict transparency and enhance the chance of vote fraud”.

Restriction of the web makes it difficult for individuals to publish data, movies and pictures about occasions on-line, making it tougher for journalists and election screens to confirm and report.

Throughout Uganda’s final election in 2021, which noticed widespread protests with dozens killed, the web was minimize for at the least every week.

Thursday’s presidential election is a repeat of the 2021 contest between President Yoweri Museveni, in search of his seventh time period of elected workplace, and former pop star Bobi Wine, whose actual identify is Robert Kyagulanyi.