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New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani reportedly celebrated his latest marriage this week with a three-day-long unique bash in his native Uganda that included masked navy safety and a cellphone jamming system.
The social gathering happened at Mamdani’s household’s non-public compound within the east African nation in a rich space outdoors of Kampala, the capital, in response to an unique report by the New York Submit.
The socialist candidate eloped with illustrator Rama Duwaji, with whom he lives in an condo in Queens, earlier this 12 months.
“Outdoors the Mamdani home have been greater than 20 particular forces command unit guards, some in masks, and there was a phone-jamming system arrange — and all for the strictly invite-only Mamdani occasion,” a witness informed the Submit. “One gate had round 9 guards stationed at it,” they added.
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Members of the Uganda Particular Forces Command, a specialised unit inside the Uganda Individuals’s Defence Forces, monitor gate motion at Mahmood Mamdani’s house in Buziga on July 24, 2025. The unit is tasked with conducting high-stakes missions and defending the President and the First Household. (Katumba Badru/New York Submit)
Final Sunday, he posted in a video on his X web page that he was “going again to Uganda. I’m heading there in a private capability to rejoice Rama and I’s marriage with our household and mates.”
He joked, “However relying in your perspective, don’t be concerned or I am sorry: I will be again by the top of the month. See you quickly, NYC.”
On Tuesday, buses, a number of Mercedes and a Vary Rover bused partygoers into the celebration, in response to the Submit.
The revelers loved music, meals and dancing throughout the celebration, and when the bash was over, Mamdani’s private safety reportedly appeared to take over because the navy guards left.
The celebration got here on the identical time the nation was mourning the demise of former Ugandan Supreme Court docket Choose George Kanyeihamba, who was a neighbor to Mamdani’s household and died on July 14.
Mamdani shocked by handily successful New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral main final month, however many within the Democratic institution have but to totally embrace the socialist nominee. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
“Persons are nonetheless in mourning,” one particular person informed the Submit, calling the marriage celebration “insensitive.”
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At one level, the road was blocked off by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s caravan when he got here to the neighborhood to pay his respects.
Mamdani’s household’s house sits on two acres of land with views of Lake Victoria, in a rich space referred to as Buziga Hill. Mamdani’s father is a Columbia College professor and his mom is a film director.
One in every of their neighbors contains Ugandan billionaire businessman Godfrey Kirumira.
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seems on stage together with his household, together with his spouse, Rama Duwaji, proper, at his main election social gathering, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photograph/Heather Khalifa)
Masked safety guards policed the entrances to the compound, which reportedly has at the very least three safety gates.
The U.S. State Division, in its journey advisory on Uganda, urges Individuals to “rethink journey” to the nation as a result of menace of “crime, terrorism, and legal guidelines concentrating on individuals on the premise of sexual orientation. Train elevated warning as a result of potential safety dangers and the unpredictable nature of public demonstrations.”
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Mamdani was born in Uganda however moved to New York when he was 7 years previous, and obtained his U.S. citizenship seven years in the past.
Mamdani shocked by handily successful New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral main final month, however many within the Democratic institution have but to totally embrace the socialist nominee.
