Uganda: Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) Accepts Freedom Award Nomination

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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Meets the People Power Movement in Uganda


"Your time is over, your time is over, your time is over," a group of young people chanting to Uganda's long serving President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at a recent rally organised by the President of Uganda. Ironically, the President can organise mass gatherings of more than 25 people in public, but no one else in Uganda can. The political wave in Uganda is turning against the the liberation President who has been in power since 1986. This is following the tide of the Alliance for Freedom & Change just up north in Sudan that led to President Omar al-Bashir stepping down in April 2019. Where political parties have been banned from campaigning, rallying and organising, a different approach to advance freedom became necessary.

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