After Tense Presidential Poll, Uganda Sees Low Turnout for Local Elections

A polling station in the Kamwokya neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, saw a low turnout during local elections, with only a fraction of those registered arriving to vote, Feb. 24, 2016.

The police presence in Kampala, Uganda, during local elections was high. Public Order Management vehicles were parked at the city's main intersection, Feb. 24, 2016.

A polling station in the Kamwokya neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, saw a low turnout during local elections, with only a fraction of those registered arriving to vote, Feb. 24, 2016.

FILE - Kampala's streets were empty Saturday when Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was announced the winner of the election. Many residents said they feared violence and went home, Feb. 20, 2016.

FILE - Poll workers preparing for voters to come inside at Mulago polling station in Kampala, Uganda, Feb. 18, 2016. (J. Craig/VOA)

FILE - A policeman argues with a supporter of opposition leader Kizza Besigye at the gates of his party headquarters, before police who had surrounded it raided the building, in Kampala, Uganda, Feb. 19, 2016.

FILE - Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni speaks to the media soon after casting his vote at a polling station during the presidential elections in Kirihura, in western Uganda, Feb. 18, 2016.

FILE - Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye, center, is arrested by police and thrown into the back of a blacked-out police van which whisked him away and was later seen at a rural police station, outside his home in Kasangati, Uganda, Feb. 22, 2