Bobi Wine says wife in hospital after assault by soldiers

Uganda opposition leader and National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, speaks at a press conference at his house in Kampala on January 15, 2026. [AFP]

Fugitive Ugandan opposition figure  Bobi Wine said on Saturday that his wife was rushed to hospital after soldiers held her at gunpoint and strangled her during a violent raid on their home.

Wine went into hiding after a January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was re-elected for a seventh term -- a result the opposition leader denounced as "blatant theft".