In the outlying towns around Kampala, Uganda's capital, rival candidates' posters fight for space. Their photographs are plastered on every available roadside wall, stuck on cardboard boxes and strung like lanterns from power cables and branches, and even made into lifelike cut-out effigies.
Thursday's presidential and parliamentary elections, the first for 25 years in which opposition parties have been allowed to field candidates, are turning into a less predictable contest than President Yoweri Museveni can have imagined. Kampala is edgy. Some shops and small businesses have closed temporarily for fear of violence. Kenya has deployed police reinforcements to the border.
