Burundi's constitutional court has upheld the victory of the ruling party candidate in last's months presidential election.
The CNDD-FDD candidate, retired general Evariste Ndayishimiye, won with 68% of votes cast but his main opponent Agathon Rwasa challenged the results in court claiming fraud and irregularities.
The country's council of Catholic bishops had also raised doubts about the results after its observers witnessed instances of multiple voting, ballots being cast in names of dead people and refugees in other countries, voters being forced to choose certain candidates and unauthorised people involved in vote counting.
However the court ruled on Thursday that the 20 May election was regular and that Mr Ndayishimiye is the president-elect.
It said Mr Rwasa's appeal was unfounded. The opposition leader is yet to respond to the ruling.
The president-elect is set to be sworn in on 20 August and serve a term of seven years. He will replace Pierre Nkurunziza who has led the country since 2005.Uganda starts testing all ministers for coronavirus
All government ministers in Uganda are being tested for coronavirus.
According to the spokesperson for the health ministry they will be screened every two weeks because of their frequent movements across the country.
He adds that some of 79 officials had previously been tested but none were found to be positive.
As we reported earlier, Uganda’s Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has announced that he is self-isolating for 14 days after some of his close contacts tested positive for coronavirus. He said that his own test was negative.
Dr Rugunda chairs the national task force for Covid-19, his responsibilities have been delegated to the first deputy prime minister Moses Ali.
Staff at the Office of the Prime Minister are also being tested.
Uganda now has 557 confirmed cases with most being lorry drivers but the number of community infections is rising.
The government has been easing lockdown measures introduced more than two months ago.
Public transport was this week allowed to operate in most parts of the country except in border districts.
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