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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 file photo, Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, center, arrives at a magistrate's court in Gulu, northern Uganda. Wine is due to return home on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 after seeking treatment in the United States for injuries suffered during alleged state torture. (AP Photo, File)

Ugandan pop star vows to fight on after arriving from US

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 file photo, Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, center, arrives at a magistrate's court in Gulu, northern Uganda. Wine is due to return home on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 after seeking treatment in the United States for injuries suffered during alleged state torture. (AP Photo, File)

Uganda’s opposition pop star Bobi Wine set to return home

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Ugandan pop star Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, center, wears a beret and is hugged by a supporter as he gets into an ambulance after leaving the courthouse in Gulu, Uganda Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. The 36-year-old lawmaker, who has been in detention since Aug. 14 and faces charges of treason, was freed on bail Monday by a judge in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. (AP Photo)

Uganda opposition pop star blocked from flying to US for aid

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 file photo, Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, center, arrives at a magistrate's court in Gulu, northern Uganda. The 36-year-old lawmaker, who has been in detention since Aug. 14 and faces charges of treason, was freed on bail Monday Aug. 27, 2018, by a judge in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. (AP Photo, File)

Ugandan pop star, government critic Bobi Wine free on bail

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, center, arrives at a magistrate's court in Gulu, northern Uganda Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. Bobi Wine, who opposes the longtime president Yoweri Museveni, was charged with treason in the civilian court in Gulu on Thursday, minutes after a military court dropped weapons charges. (AP Photo)

Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker faces a treason charge

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 file photo, Ugandan pop star Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, centre, leaves shortly after being sworn in as a member of parliament in Kampala, Uganda. On Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 Ugandan military prosecutors withdrew weapons charges against the jailed pop star and lawmaker who opposes the longtime president. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi, File)

Uganda’s pop star-turned-lawmaker now facing treason charges

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 11, 2017, Ugandan pop star Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, center, leaves shortly after being sworn in as a member of parliament in Kampala, Uganda. The 36-year-old &quot;ghetto child&quot; is a new member of parliament who urges his countrymen to stand up against what he calls a failing government but was charged Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 in a military court over his alleged role in clashes in the northwestern town of Arua where both he and President Yoweri Museveni were campaigning. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Official: Jailed, beaten Ugandan pop star in ‘a lot of pain’

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Ugandan security forces briefly beat then detain a protester in downtown Kampala, Uganda, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Ugandan police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters demanding the release of jailed lawmaker, pop star, and government critic Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, whose stage name is Bobi Wine. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Uganda police battle protesters seeking release of pop star

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Uganda opposition figure held after anti-president protest

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Ugandan court backs age law benefiting longtime president

By Associated Press - Associated Press

An estimated 19 million low-income Ugandans have effectively lost access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype and other apps as a result on the Ugandan tax, which took effect on July 1. (Associated Press/File)

Yoweri Museveni, Uganda president, fights ‘fake news’ with social media tax

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning in central London. (AP Photo/Carl Court, Pool, File)

Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan president, praises Donald Trump: He ‘speaks to Africans frankly’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 file photo supporters of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni demonstrate their support of an amendment to throw out a clause that puts the presidential upper age limit at 75, in Kampala, Uganda. After the stunning fall of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, attention has turned to other longtime African leaders accused of trying to extend their rule. (AP Photo, File)

After Mugabe, Africa’s other longtime leaders feel a chill

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Uganda opposition members ask ICC to investigate killings

By RISDEL KASASIRA - Associated Press

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)

Uganda: Army officers arrested over plot against president

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Clouds have grown increasingly ominous ahead of the vote Thursday that could give Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power for 30 years, another five-year term. (Associated Press)

Yoweri Museveni’s bid to extend 30-year rule in Uganda latest test of African democracy

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 23, 2014 file photo, General David Sejusa returns to the capital Kampala, Uganda. A military general who opposes Uganda's longtime president was arrested ahead of presidential elections next month, his lawyer said Sunday Jan. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/File)

Dissident Ugandan general arrested ahead of elections

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning in central London. (AP Photo/Carl Court, Pool, File)

Ugandan president calls Western aid ‘unreligious,’ ‘sinful’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)

Uganda president signs harsh anti-gay law

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - In a Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity and one holds out a wrapped condom, as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. President Barack Obama says in a statement provided Sunday, Feb. 15, 2014 that pending steps by Uganda to further criminalize homosexuality will complicate what he is describing as America's valued relationship with the East African nation. Museveni said Friday that he plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for what they term as "aggravated" homosexual acts.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama denounces Uganda for law criminalizing gay sex

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times