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Uganda Authorities Arrest Bobi Wine During Campaign Stop

Halima Athumani

   KAMPALA, UGANDA - Ugandan soldiers arrested opposition presidential
   candidate Bobi Wine during a campaign stop Wednesday in the Kalangala
   district. This is the third time Wine has been arrested since launching
   his campaign to unseat President Yoweri Museveni.

   "Kalangala is not one of the districts where campaigns were banned,"
   said Joel Senyonyi, spokesperson of Wine's National Unity Platform
   party or NUP. "So, he went to campaign, but to his shock when he got
   there, the military surrounded him and arrested the entire team, 90 of
   them. Took them to different places. We understand he's being
   airlifted, we don't know to where."

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