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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine)

Date of Birth: 12 February 1982
Place of Birth: Mpigi District (now Gomba District)


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General Muhoozi takes charge of the post poll crackdown

In an earlier social media post subsequently deleted Kainerugaba had threatened to torture and kill the opposition National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine who has been on the run since the election...

In an earlier social media post subsequently deleted Kainerugaba had threatened to torture and kill the opposition National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine who has been on the run since the election...

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How Museveni won in Buganda

In 2021 Museveni won 59% against 35% for his closest rival popstar-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu ‘Bobi Wine' (AC Vol 62 No 2 Iron fist carries the day)...

THE RULING PARTY PAID THE VOTERS AND WON THE POLICY BATTLES The opposition National Unity Platform faces a crisis after Bobi Wine's share of the presidential poll fell to 25% and the party dropped from 57 to 43 parliamentary seats in the 15 January polls...


Seventh time lucky for Museveni

Hundreds then lost their lives as the security forces fired live ammunition to quell riots sparked by the arrest of leading opposition candidate National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine...


Museveni hopes black gold will buy off dissent

Unlike Lissu National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is still able to command mass campaign rallies and Wine and his party have been allowed to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls...

Unlike Lissu National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is still able to command mass campaign rallies and Wine and his party have been allowed to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls...


Museveni looks to an oil boost

The opposition led by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – aka Bobi Wine – has promised 10 million new jobs by 2032 revamped healthcare and education access an end to ‘wasteful' government spending and the boosting of food security and the crucial agricultural sector...

Confirmation of the government's anxiety came via President Yoweri Museveni's belated acknowledgement that two Kenyan activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo had been arrested and detained for five weeks after attending a political rally for opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine...

After EU diplomats met Bobi Wine in May to discuss human rights violations and his presidential ambitions the Ugandan government accused the EU of interfering in domestic politics and funding the opposition...


As protests mount, state repression goes regional

A late-night boast in early May by Muhoozi on X – he is also the Chief of Defence Forces – that he was holding opposition leader Bobi Wine's chief of security Edward Ssebufu (aka Eddie Mutwe) in his basement confirmed that the aide who had been abducted on the outskirts of Kampala was being tortured by the army (AC Vol 66 No 12 Muhoozi attacks regime insiders)...

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Muhoozi attacks regime insiders

Museveni's main challenger during the last polls Kyagulanyi Sentamu the popular 43-year-old singer known as Bobi Wine will be running again...


The Muhoozi succession recasts Kampala’s regional policy

He threatened on social media in early January to behead opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine...

The leader of the National Unity Platform Bobi Wine who took 35% of the vote in 2021 has recovered from wounds sustained after being hit by a gas canister fired by security agents in Kampala in August while he was addressing a meeting of NUP supporters...


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