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– Directors, editors of "Red Pepper" newspaper arrested in Uganda (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 24, 2017

The arrests were prompted by a 20 November article headlined "M7 plots to remove Kagame," which claimed that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (nicknamed "M7") was plotting against his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame.
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