Bobi Wine calls on world leaders to cut ties with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

More than 85% of Ugandans have seen no other president in their lifetime, because President Yoweri Museveni has always changed the constitution to stay in power, opposition leader Bobi Wine said at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy this week.
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Uganda deports leading Rwandan opposition figure

Uganda said Saturday it had deported a leading figure in a banned Rwandan opposition group, in a further sign of warming ties between Kampala and Kigali after years of tensions. The expulsion of Robert Mukombozi of the exiled Rwandan National Congress (RNC) follows a pledge by the powerful son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to crack down on what Kigali considers a terrorist outfit.
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Ugandan author charged with cyber stalking president

Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise and a female journalist have been charged with cyber stalking the country's president, their lawyer told AFP Thursday, the second writer to be arrested by the authorities recently.
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Ugandan president's son visits Rwanda in sign of warming ties

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the powerful son of Uganda's president, arrived in Rwanda on Saturday to meet President Paul Kagame for a visit that marks warming relations between the neighbouring countries after years of tension.
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Twin Bomb Explosions Hit Kampala, Uganda In Suspected Terrorist Attack

Two explosions rocked the Ugandan capital's city center within 30 minutes of each other on Tuesday, according to police and a journalist at the scene of one of the blasts.
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Fruit-shaped bomb kills two children in Ugandan village - police

A bomb that looked like a "jackfruit" killed at least two children in a Ugandan village on Friday, after being given to the children while they were playing, a senior police official said.
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Activists arrested to silence criticism of Total's R52bn Ugandan project - watchdogs

Environmental watchdogs have condemned the arrest of six Ugandan rights campaigners as a coordinated effort to silence critics of a contested energy project involving French oil giant Total.
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