STORY: :: Kampala, Uganda<\/p>\n
\n :: January 1, 2026<\/p>\n
\n Uganda’s main opposition candidate Bobi Wine said he would review the country’s agreements with international oil firms if he won next week’s election.<\/p>\n
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\n Uganda expects to start commercial crude oil production later this year when fields run by France’s TotalEnergies, China’s CNOOC and Uganda National Oil Company come online.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n “We shall study all agreements. And any part in those agreements that does not favor Ugandans will definitely be revised.”<\/p>\n
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\n Wine, a former pop star, is challenging President Yoweri Museveni for the second straight election.<\/p>\n
\n Uganda discovered the oil 20 years ago and its oil reserves are estimated at 6.65 billion barrels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n But production has been repeatedly delayed by disagreements between international firms and the government, as well as opposition from environmental activists.<\/p>\n
\n Wine criticized Western allies for continuing to support Museveni’s government despite crackdowns on opposition supporters.<\/p>\n
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\n He said he had been beaten twice by security forces during campaigns and blocked from campaigning in certain areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Eighty-one-year-old Museveni has ruled Uganda for 40 years.<\/p>\n
\n Opponents accuse his government of violently repressing its critics, allegations the authorities deny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORY: :: Kampala, Uganda :: January 1, 2026 Uganda’s main opposition candidate Bobi Wine said he would review…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2187,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-11974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-markets","9":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","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=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}