Born just four years before president Yoweri Museveni assumed power in 1986, opposition leader and musician Bobi Wine was recently forced into exile after yet another flawed election in Uganda.
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The claim that the small African country of Uganda has discovered 31 million tonnes of gold ore with a yield of 320,000 tonnes of refined gold is going viral. But its numbers are, simply, impossible.
11 July 2024 – The photo of a Ugandan military convoy was shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a year ago, not during Kenya’s recent youth-led tax protests.
20 June 2024 – The false claim echoes harmful stereotypes about Africa’s many countries, cultures and people. The video doesn’t show a “cultural practice” – it’s just people messing about at a festival.
11 June 2024 – The distressing video of two bloodied women being beaten up and sexually assaulted was shot on a road near Kampala. There’s no evidence that anyone involved was South African or Nigerian.
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