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Uganda: Why Many Ugandans - As Well As Africans - Love Bobi Wine
Monitor, 23 December 2018
Several months back, a familiar kind of land dispute was resolved in unusual style. Read more »
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Uganda: Lawyers Attack Police Over Blocking Bobi Wine Concerts
Monitor, 20 December 2018
Police's continued blocking of music shows of singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, dominated the Uganda Law Society (ULS) quarterly report released on… Read more »
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Uganda: Blocking Political Rallies Not Legally Justifiable
Observer, 19 December 2018
Last month, Uganda Police blocked Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) rallies in western Uganda. The FDC had planned to hold rallies in Mbarara, Kiruhura, Ibanda, Isingiro and… Read more »
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Uganda: Museveni Orders Trial of Officers Over Arua Chaos
Monitor, 19 December 2018
President Museveni has directed the Inspector General of Police, Mr Martins Okoth-Ochola, to charge police officers who were in charge of security during the Arua Municipality… Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Asked to Explain Why Security Forces Block Bobi Concerts
Monitor, 18 December 2018
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has tasked the government to pronounce itself on concerts by musician cum politician, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine. Read more »
Why Do Africans Love Bobi Wine?
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, is the 36-year-old who uses his politically charged songs to call for change in the country that President Yoweri Museveni has led for more than three decades. Wine has suffered serious physical abuse at the hands of state security forces, and been arrested and charged with treason. This has not only won him international sympathy but put him in the ranks of the top young Africans challenging the old guard's hold on power.
InFocus
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Singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, spoke about Uganda's current political situation, and about the abuse he suffered while under police custody ... Read more »
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The popular singer-cum-MP has accused the police of blocking him from holding a concert scheduled for this weekend. The police claim that the organisers did not make proper ... Read more »
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President Yoweri Museveni has hit out at media reports that suggests that Kyadondo MP Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, was seriously injured while being apprehended ... Read more »
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Police have confirmed that Bobi Wine's brother Eddie Yahwe is one of the people arrested together with some journalists at the Entebbe International Airport where he had gone to ... Read more »
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The international community has joined East Africans in condemning the arrest and beating of opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi in Uganda. Military court charges against the ... Read more »
