Bobi Wine stands on a motorbike as he travels Uganda campaigning for the opposition.
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An emotional roller coaster, the film tracks the pop star’s political battle up close and personal.
Cecilia Atim Ogwal (1946-2024).
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Ogwal’s experiences as an opposition politician are emblematic of the challenges faced by political opponents of the regime in Uganda.
Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, on the campaign trail ahead of Uganda’s 2021 general election.
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Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing agreements in Jerusalem in 2016.
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East Africa’s reaction to the war in Gaza appears shaped by history, affinity to the policies of the west and the threat of terrorism.
A fire burns during violent protests in Kampala, Uganda, on 18 November 2020.
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State security agents violently quashed protests following the 2020 arrest of musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
Representatives of Rainbows Across Borders take part in the Pride in London parade on 1 July 2023 in London, United Kingdom.
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The World Bank’s funding freeze reflects a shift from policy imposition to indirect ways of controlling client nations.
President Yoweri Museveni salutes the army during the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Army in 2005.
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The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
A view of an evangelical and pentecostal church in Kampala, Uganda.
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The history of Christian nonconformism should lead church leaders to look with sympathy on gay Ugandans’ situation today.
Activists protest outside the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC on April 25, 2023.
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The Ugandan law is one of a spate of laws across Africa that are said to protect the heterosexual African family.
Uganda president Yoweri Museveni thinks homosexuality is “disgusting”.
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It seems likely that Uganda’s president, who has described homosexuality as ‘disgusting’ will pass this bill into law.
Joseph Kony speaks to journalists in southern Sudan in November 2006.
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The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
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Smuggling in Uganda’s West Nile region is seen as an act of defiance – a way to make ends meet in the face of perceived state neglect.
Ugandan President Idi Amin gestures during a speech in 1973.
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The inhumanity of Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’ was about much more than the expulsion of Asians.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, commander of Uganda’s land forces and President Yoweri Museveni’s son.
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The plan to replace Museveni with his son has dramatically shifted from rumour to reality in recent months.
Police officers cordon off a crime scene in Kampala, Uganda, in 2021.
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Uganda uses unpredictability to combine democratic institutions with authoritarian power.
Rwanda has fully re-opened the Gatatuna-Katuna border with Uganda, ending a three-year impasse. Cyril Ndegeya/Anadolu Agency via
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Tension persists between the neighbours as Kampala is yet to address all of Kigali’s grievances.
Joseph Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (Centre) arrives for a past peace talks at a jungle in Southern Sudan.
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Fresh efforts to capture Kony comes amid growing influence of Russia in the Central African Republic.
Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians – but they were persecuted soon after his overthrow in 1979.
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There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
A patrol car of the Ugandan police is seen stationed outside the headquarters of the Uganda oppposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) on January 20, 2021.
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Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
A policeman beats up a journalist in Kampala outside the Daily Monitor and Red Pepper newspapers during a protest at the temporary closure of two newspapers by armed police in May 2013.
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Uganda media houses pay low wages and offer few development opportunities for journalists, which makes reporters more susceptible to bribes.