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Missing Uganda opposition activist charged and remanded, his lawyer says • May 5, 2025, 7:15 AM ET (Straits Times)
Eddie Mutwe: Anger as Uganda's Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba says he's holding Bobi Wine's bodyguard • May 2, 2025, 6:34 AM ET (BBC)
Why has Ugandan politician Bobi Wine decided to stand in Uganda’s 2026 election? • Apr. 16, 2025, 2:15 AM ET (BBC)
Sudan: What’s changed after two years of war? • Apr. 14, 2025, 5:20 AM ET (BBC)
Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’ • Apr. 11, 2025, 6:36 AM ET (The Guardian)

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Also Known As Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu
Born February 12, 1982 (age 43) • Uganda

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