All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Bobi Wine has already changed the Ugandan opposition. Can he change the government? Bobi Wine has already changed the Ugandan opposition. Can he change the government? 22/11/2020 | 6 MINS Just three weeks into his official campaign for the Ugandan presidency, Ugandan musician and parliamentarian Robert Kyagulanyi (better known by his stage name Bobi Wine) has already been arrested twice. The first came just minutes after his formal nomination in the capital Kampala. Footage streamed by his party showed police smashing the windows of the stationary vehicle Wine and his associates were occupying. Wine was arrested again while campaigning in Luuka district last week. Protests in a number of Ugandan cities have since broken out and, in an unprecedented move, most other opposition presidential candidates suspended their campaigns until he was released. At least 49 people have been killed in those protests, which already makes this election bloodier than the last one in 2016. The official reason for both of these arrests was that t
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Bobi Wine has already changed the Ugandan opposition.
Bobi Wine has already changed the Ugandan opposition.
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22/11/2020 | 6 MINS Just three weeks into his official campaign for the Ugandan presidency, Ugandan musician and parliamentarian Robert Kyagulanyi (better known by his stage name Bobi Wine) has already been arrested twice.
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The first came just minutes after his formal nomination in the capital Kampala.
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Footage streamed by his party showed police smashing the windows of the stationary vehicle Wine and his associates were occupying.
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Wine was arrested again while campaigning in Luuka district last week.
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Protests in a number of Ugandan cities have since broken out and, in an unprecedented move, most other opposition presidential candidates suspended their campaigns until he was released.
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