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The pop star vs the president: Uganda's generational fight

Ugandan military police, one wearing a balaclava with a skull painted on, patrol where supporters of pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine gather, in the Kisekka Market area of Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. Bobi Wine, who opposes the longtime president Yoweri Museveni, was charged with treason in a civilian court in Gulu on Thursday, minutes after a military court dropped weapons charges. [AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi]

“We used to be scared,” said Josephine Katumba, a 30-year-old hairdresser in Kamwokya, a poor suburb of Uganda’s capital Kampala. “We don’t have fear anymore.”

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