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Uganda

The Ugandan general election coming up on January 14 has been marked by violence and what many have described as intimidation of the opposition by the government of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The president has been in power since 1986 and is expecting to extend this feat.

Museveni’s closest challenger, a musician-turned-politician called Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, or Bobi Wine, has been the target of security officers who have accused him and his campaign of breaking COVID protocols to flouting campaign rules.

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Museveni and Ssentamu have exchanged words throughout the course of last year over various issues. Ssentamu believes Uganda can only begin to take steps forward in a future without Museveni while the president sees the man who is half his age as a nuisance to Uganda’s development.