KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine was shot in the leg and seriously injured by security agents in a northern suburb of the capital Kampala on Tuesday, his party said.
Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has in recent years emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the East African country for nearly four decades.
“Security operatives have made an attempt on the life of President @HEBobiwine. He was shot in the leg and seriously injured,” Wine’s party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), said in a post on the X platform. Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango did immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; writing by Hereward Holland; editing by Mark Heinrich)
