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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/uganda-goes-to-presidential-polls.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People wait in a queue to vote at the Mukwano polling station in Kampala (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-uganda-goes-to-presidential-polls.jpg" alt="People wait in a queue to vote at the Mukwano polling station in Kampala (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Millions of Ugandans have been lining up to vote in a presidential ballot that pits the country&#8217;s long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician.</p>
<p>Opposition threats of street protests and the looming start of oil production have raised the stakes in the vote &#8211; just the second multi-party election to be held in Uganda in 30 years.</p>
<p>President Yoweri Museveni, who is vague about his age and says he is 66 or 67, faces a record seven challengers.</p>
<p>A US ally, Mr Museveni predicts a &#8220;big win&#8221; and most analysts agree he is likely to claim a fourth term. He faces his stiffest competition from a former ally, 54-year-old Kizza Besigye.</p>
<p>Most polling stations in Uganda opened on time, said John Mary Odoy, the director of a local election observer group, the Democracy Monitoring Group. About 14 million people are registered to vote for the presidential and parliamentary races.</p>
<p>However, Mr Odoy said that delays have been experienced throughout the capital Kampala. He said materials were delivered late and there were reports of officials not having vehicles to transport the ballot boxes. </p>
<p>Paul Bukenya, a spokesman for the Electoral Commission of Uganda, downplayed the problems in Kampala. </p>
<p>Security has been heightened around Kampala and at the the east African nation&#8217;s near-24,000 polling stations.</p>
<p>Beyond potential election violence, police and embassies warned of possible terrorist attacks. Last July twin suicide bombings in Kampala claimed by the Somali militant group al-Shabab killed at least 76 people.</p>
<p>Mr Besigye has already called the election &#8220;fundamentally flawed&#8221;, pointing to the incumbent&#8217;s control of the electoral commission and the failure to give new voters identity cards as proof that the president will rig the vote.</p>
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