Bobi Wine has announced that he has left Uganda, saying he fled the country to escape what he described as a military-led manhunt following January’s disputed presidential election. In a video posted on the social media platform X on Saturday, Wine said he had been in hiding for weeks after security forces allegedly raided his home shortly after the January 15 vote.

Guinea’s military-led government has dissolved 40 political parties, including the country’s three main opposition groups, in a move widely condemned by critics as a major escalation in the crackdown on political freedoms under President Mamady Doumbouya.

Born in 1943 in colonial Rhodesia, Geza was a veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and later became an influential figure within the ruling ZANU-PF party. After independence in 1980, he transitioned into the security and political spheres, with reports suggesting he served in the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). He later entered Parliament, representing Sanyati, and rose through party ranks to become a member of the ZANU-PF Central Committee, as well as a prom