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Bobi Wine’s 2021 bid highlights youth vote challenge—and Museveni’s mastery

Despite widespread “youth wave” optimism, the NRM employed diverse, embedded strategies and tactics to obstruct Bobi Wine’s efforts to build a national youth constituency
Bobi Wine, standing in a car, surrounded by hundreds of supporters in Lira town, 7 September 2023, while on a countrywide tour. Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in the 2021 election highlights the reality that capturing the youth vote in Uganda is complex. And that this broad category and the role it plays in Ugandan politics is poorly understood.
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Three years on, the events of November 2020 loom large

Opposition National Unity Platform says some of its supporters are still unaccounted for since November 2020, and continues to face intense scrutiny from security forces