On May 26, at a polling station in northern Uganda’s Omoro District, a crowd gathered around ballot boxes set beneath a mango tree on the side of a small dirt road. Elders in faded blazers, young men in second-hand soccer jerseys, and women with babies swaddled on their backs emerged from homesteads hidden in the tall grass to watch election officials count votes for a parliamentary by-election.
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