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Aug
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Ugandan presidential hopeful says police used bullets to disperse supporters

Ugandan presidential hopeful says police used bullets to disperse supporters

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA  UGANDAN pop star and presidential hopeful, Bobi Wine, said some of his supporters were injured on Saturday after police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse a crowd in the country's east. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is seeking to end the 34-year-rule of ageing President Yoweri Museveni in polls due to be held early next year. Police spokesman Fred Enanga did not reply to Reuters' repeated calls seeking comment. In a post on his Facebook account, Wine said he had travelled to the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale to appear on a radio talk show…
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Jul
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Uganda’s Museveni picks up papers for re-election push

Uganda’s Museveni picks up papers for re-election push

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDA'S long-serving President Yoweri Museveni has collected papers to seek nomination as the ruling party's candidate in next year's presidential election, the party said on Tuesday. Securing a new term would potentially extend the 75-year-old Museveni's rule of the east African nation to four decades. "Yes, we can confirm he has picked nomination forms for our flagbearer position," Rogers Mulindwa, spokesman for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), told Reuters, adding that no-one else had yet shown up to contest him within the party. Though no date has yet been fixed for the 2021 vote, it is typically…
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