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Lawmakers allied to Uganda opposition leader charged with murder

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Two opposition lawmakers in Uganda were charged with murder and remanded on Wednesday for the second time in a month, an official with their...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine briefly detained while leading protests

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a Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine was briefly detained on Monday as he led an anti-government demonstration in the capital, his latest effort to reject...

Uganda’s Wine withdraws election result challenge, alleges bias

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Opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday he was dropping a legal challenge to Uganda’s presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri...

Ugandan opposition say 3 000 of their supporters seized since November

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3 000 of his supporters had been detained or abducted by...

Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine challenges election result in court

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a supreme court challenge on Monday seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory...

‘Everywhere I am in chains,’ says Uganda’s Wine after home arrest...

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Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine accused security forces on Tuesday of humiliating him, his family and staff as he was freed from house arrest...

Ugandan court lifts opposition leader Bobi Wine’s house arrest

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A Ugandan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a mid-month presidential...

Uganda accuses US envoy of subversion for trying to visit candidate

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Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at...

Ugandan opposition party says it will challenge election result; two dead...

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election win and condemned what it...

Uganda’s Museveni wins sixth term, rival alleges fraud

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, but his...

Ugandans choose between long-time leader and popstar politician

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Ugandans wearing face masks to brave the pandemic voted on Thursday as police and soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital during a presidential...

Ugandan opposition candidate Bobi Wine says soldiers raided his home

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Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine said soldiers raided his home on Tuesday and arrested his guards, two days before an election pitting the...

Ugandan presidential election pits Museveni against popular singer

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Ugandans vote on Thursday in a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni against ten candidates including opposition frontrunner Bobi Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker whose...

Uganda’s police chief: beating of reporters for their own good

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Uganda has space in its prisons to cope with any spike in arrests during next week’s presidential election and the police beat reporters for...

Uganda’s Bobi Wine asks ICC to investigate rights abuses

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Uganda’s main opposition leader asked the obi  on Thursday to investigate President Yoweri Museveni and senior officials for sanctioning human rights abuses in the...

Ugandan presidential challenger Bobi Wine campaigns in a flak jacket

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Uganda’s main opposition candidate in next week’s presidential election has swapped his trademark red beret for a helmet and starts each day with shadow-boxing...

The main candidates in Uganda’s presidential election

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Ugandans vote on 14 January in a presidential election that pits Yoweri Museveni, Africa’s fourth-longest ruling head of state, against ten other candidates, including...

UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests

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United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists...

ISS: Is Bobi Wine singing Museveni’s swansong?

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Uganda’s president is growing desperate as a young singer jeopardises his long grip on power. When he took office in 1986, President Yoweri Museveni said...

Uganda’s Bobi Wine released on bail as protest death toll rises...

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Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at least 37 deaths, was released on...

At least 37 killed in Uganda protests after presidential candidate Wine’s...

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At least 37 people have died and hundreds have been detained in unrest in Uganda triggered by the arrest of presidential candidate and pop...

Three dead and 34 injured in protests against arrest of Uganda’s...

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Three people died and at least 34 were injured, including with gun shot wounds, in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential candidate...

Uganda opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine arrested, police disperse supporters

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Ugandan police used rubber bullets, live rounds and tear gas to break up a protest by supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine after...

Ugandan presidential hopeful’s office raided

Ugandan pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine said security forces raided his office and confiscated documents, branding items and cash amid what the...

Retired Ugandan general facing treason charges

A retired Ugandan general seeking to unseat veteran President Yoweri Museveni was charged with treason and unlawful possession of weapons in a case underscoring...

Bobi Wine supporters teargassed

Police in Uganda fired tear gas to disperse supporters of pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine when he tried to hold a rally,...

Bobi Wine ally abducted, dies

A Ugandan musician-turned-legislator seeking to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni said a supporter and fellow singer died after being abducted and tortured, in what...

Museveni critic released

Bobi Wine, a Ugandan pop star and lawmaker seeking to challenge veteran leader Yoweri Museveni for the presidency, was freed on bail after spending...

Ugandan presidential hopeful under house arrest

A Ugandan pop singer and lawmaker seeking to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni said he was under house arrest, as the US government criticised...

Bobi Wine supporters dispersed by police

Ugandan police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse supporters of musician and lawmaker Bobi Wine gathered at a beach resort near Kampala where...

Heightened security in Uganda

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Uganda's security forces sealed off roads and erected barricades around the country's main international airport ahead of the expected return of a...

Excessive force used by Ugandan security forces concerning

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The United States is "gravely concerned" by reports of excessive force used by Uganda's security forces against lawmakers and journalists in Arua,...

Uganda lawmaker charged with treason, allowed to travel abroad

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Ugandan police gave a second opposition lawmaker the green light to travel abroad for medical treatment after he was allegedly tortured in...

Ugandan MP faces treason charges

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An opposition Ugandan lawmaker was charged with treason over his alleged role in the stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's convoy this month. A...

Ugandan lawmaker beaten in detention

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A Ugandan lawmaker whose arrest sparked two days of anti-government demonstrations cannot stand after being beaten in detention, his lawyer said, citing...