Uganda`s lesson to other authoritarians: controlling the internet works
(WorldNews Africa)

Hong Kong (CNN)Speaking to reporters after casting her ballot in the Ugandan capital Kampala last week, one local resident was overjoyed to have voted for opposition leader Bobi Wine. `The only sad thing ... is that we are missing the communication because some lines have been cut off. We don`t have internet so we are lacking communication,` she said. `Outside Kampala, we don`t know what is going on.` What was going on, according to Wine and other opposition figures, was the election being stolen. Internet shutdowns cost the global economy $8 billion last year, report says Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed Saturday that he had been re-elected for a sixth term, despite widespread...