Bobi Wine’s escape from Uganda to the US reveals controlled tensions within both the Museveni regime and opposition.
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Political policing in Uganda’s electoral landscape sustains the struggle for power.
Museveni’s iron grip on the Ugandan military makes it difficult to imagine a peaceful transfer of power.
Women are constantly battling stereotypes that seek to maintain the status quo of male dominance in political spaces.
Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
State security agents violently quashed protests following the 2020 arrest of musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
Museveni’s attempt to gain support in urban areas in the 2021 elections was not only about repression. But it still failed.
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