Pop-Star-Turned-Politician Bobi Wine Urges Uganda Aid Freeze Ahead of Vote

Uganda’s main opposition leader called for a freeze on foreign funding for President Yoweri Museveni’s administration, saying international support is sustaining repression as the country approaches elections marked by security crackdowns and internet restrictions.

“We’re not asking the West or the international community to come and save us, but we’re asking them not to sponsor our oppression,” Bobi Wine, a pop star–turned–politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday. “If you are not giving money to dictators in Europe, why do you fund the dictators in Africa?”