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Black smoke swirls over Kampala

By Peter Wanyonyi

Back in 1988, when President Yoweri Museveni’s regime was just two years old, panic gripped Kampala when a presenter on state-run Radio Uganda, while live on air, suddenly exclaimed “Oh my God!” followed by screams and the sounds of furniture being thrown this way and that.

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