Uganda’s Electoral Commission has put a ban in 13 districts on public campaigns ahead of the January 14, 2021 general elections in Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni is seeking to extend his 35 year rule in the East African nation. The campaigns, which were halted on the grounds of increasing numbers of COVID-19 among the population, have been violent and the ground unequal as opposition candidates and their supporters have on several occasions been violently stopped from holding rallies, beaten and arrested.