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Military court rules opposition supporters will continue ‘terrorism activities’ if granted bail Godfrey Olukya | 15.02.2021 KAMPALA, Uganda Over 36 supporters of Uganda’s main opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, have been denied bail on Monday. They have been in prison on remand for over one month. Some 126 political workers were arrested along with Bobi Wine on Dec. 30, 2020, on Kalangala island, where they had gone to attend a rally in connection with the presidential election campaign. They were accused of flouting the COVID-19 guidelines. Bobi Wine was flown by an army helicopter to his home at Magere, while the rest were imprisoned in Masaka prison. ....
In the December 1999 election, Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo was in the fight of its political life against the opposition Renamo. Many accounts have it losing, but stealing, that election. Although President Joaquim Chissano was officially re-elected with 52.3% of the vote, and Frelimo secured 133 of 250 parliamentary seats, opposition MDM MP Lutero Simango believes that things were skewed in the government’s favour. “Counting did not take place in Nacala [province]. No one knows those results till today. It is believed that if these votes had been counted that Frelimo would not have won.” Simango and his brother Daviz, the mayor of Mozambique’s second city Beira, are both scions of Frelimo, sons of Uria Simango, a Presbyterian minister who was a founder member of the liberation movement back in 1962. ....