{"id":11890,"date":"2026-01-08T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:15:10","slug":"crackdown-on-ugandas-opposition-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11890\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown On Uganda&#8217;s Opposition Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> .content {<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n]]><\/p>\n<p>The campaign for this month&#8217;s general elections began calmly enough, according to Kristof Titeca, an expert on governance in Uganda at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp. &#8220;But as soon as Bobi Wine and his political party, the NUP, really started campaigning, the repression escalated,&#8221; he told RFI.<\/p>\n<p>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/00680409:be3048a17976628403924c9268734635:arc614x376:w614:us1.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"376\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bobi Wine, presidential candidate of Uganda&#8217;s National Unity Platform, delivering New Year Address at NUP headquarters in Makerere-Kavule.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00095231.html\" title=\"Ugandan Opposition Politician Besigye Denied Bail for Fourth Time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/00680343:146c9ce0ef76fce65d2f56206f24ecec:arc180x120:w400:us1.jpg\" alt=\"Veteran opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye and his aide, Obeid Lutale, have been denied bail for the fourth time.\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran opposition politician Dr. Kizza Besigye and his aide, Obeid Lutale, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denied bail<\/a> for the fourth time after the court ruled that criminal proceedings should not be stayed before plea-taking.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Emmanuel Baguma said granting bail at this stage would be improper since the accused have not yet taken a plea, citing repeated delays caused by defence applications since September. The ruling sparked<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00095231.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0more\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":".content { } ]]&gt; The campaign for this month&#8217;s general elections began calmly enough, according to Kristof Titeca,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[63,83,265,321,262,268,787,96,261,264,263,266,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-11890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-events","11":"tag-east-africa","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-governance","14":"tag-human-rights","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-travel","20":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}