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How Oyoo and Njagi survived on ugali and beans for 38 days in Uganda military camp

Activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo during a press briefing in Nairobi on November 12 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

For 38 harrowing days, Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi lived under the constant fear that they might never return home alive.

The two Kenyans were held incommunicado inside a Ugandan military camp, confined in deplorable conditions, poorly fed, and subjected to repeated psychological and physical torture.

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