The new year continues with the pandemic being used by some authoritarian African leaders as a way to cling to power. 
Saturday saw Yoweri Musevini win his sixth term in office after the election was postponed in 2020 due to the risk of Covid, with Mr Musevini telling Ugandan NBS Television that “To have elections when the virus is still there… It will be madness.” However, after much deliberation it was decided that the election would actually go ahead in 2021 despite the virus persisting into the new year with Uganda’s …