DAMara

activist In the making

perfectly human error is part of my DNA

[Sheila Tusiime @TusiimeSheila]

To the men reading this—

This month is for you. 💙

For the conversations you haven’t had, burdens you carry quietly, the days you’re holding it together and the days you’re not.

This Men’s Mental Health Month, may we learn that the strongest thing a man can do is heal. May we remember that strength is not hiding your struggles, it’s saying, “I’m not okay,” and allowing others to show up for you too.

Check on a man who has impacted your life and ask him one simple question:

“How are you, really?”

#MensMentalHealthMonth #GratitudeSunday

[PIUS JADWAR @One_PiusJadwar]

Policemen tried to arrest @NinyeTabz, but they were unsuccessful and had to back off. Yet here you are, @JustineNameere , thinking you can handle him? Hehe.

A real badman straight outta Dangala, Kamwokyaaaaaa! 😎🔥💪🏾

[Buganda Royal Law Chambers @BugandaLawyers]

BREAKING NEWS!

The Kingdom of Buganda has given its detailed concerns, observations and
recommendations on the Draft Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 citing that it can not serve the interests of Uganda and her sovereignty, as it stands in its current state.

Find attached…

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

Earlier today, @GodwinTOKO @PhillipKarugaba, our friend Elly and myself went to Luzira prison to visit the comrades there.@kizzabesigye1 is in much better health and back to his usual high spirits, Hajji Lutale is also in high spirits, @eddie_mutwe was the jolliest and very happy to see us, @AMufumbiro is still in a somber mood but strong, Bobi Young is asking that we don’t forget him. That we should at least push for him to appear in court. He is frustrated that he hasn’t been in Court for 2 years and nothing has changed since the Supreme Court’s decision in Jan 2025 that civilians shouldn’t be tried in military courts. Coincidentally, I received a call from Yasin Ssekitoleko in Kitalya asking about the same- their fate, since they were neither transferred to civilian courts nor continued appearing in the court martial. But they send you greetings and say the best way to support them is to keep fighting for a better Uganda

[DAMara @DAMara_trust]

Sometimes what if what you fear most is the fears of other people's opinions of how you live

rememberin you are not here to make others happy but live life to your best
#selfLove
#lodNation

[DAMara @DAMara_trust]

I have chose to celebrate myself today for no reason
I'm going to get pot light it with a glass of ram

Just because I'm alive and I'm me
Good vibes
#lodnation

[Human Rights Platform @Humanrights256]

🚨UPDATE: I saw this video clip of Uganda police officers pushing a woman underneath the Patrol truck with men.

●These same police patrol trucks (underneath) are used as funeral vans in transporting dead bodies to mulago

●why don't female MPS talk about this in parliament?

These teachers were arrested reportedly for calling a PTA meeting in a UPE school asked the parents to pay some money for sugar and a snack to their kids who are in UPE.

One parent protested and called the police which treated them like that.

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

📌📌

Ugandans’ dominant views on the protection of Sovereignty Bill #BinTheBill #RejectSovereigntyBill

[DAMara @DAMara_trust]

Do not forget that a difficult childhood also creates brilliance, creativity, and resourcefulness that other people have no access to.
Don't look down on yourself coz of your past

[Agora Discourse @AgoraCFR]

Over 30 Ugandans were killed before, during and after the January 15, 2026 general elections, dozens arrested, countless injured and still nursing injuries to date, and other human rights violations that occurred in Uganda's 2026 elections as documented in our report below.
https://t.co/aIEcCFWEgH
#SpotLightOnUgElections26

[GAD ROGERS 🇺🇬🌍 @gad_rogers]

This #SovereigntyBillUG fails three basic tests that any good law must pass.

First, it fails the test of legal certainty.

We hear terms like “sovereignty threats,” “foreign interference,” and “national interest.” But where are the precise legal definitions? When a law is not clear, anyone can be targeted. A citizen criticizing government can be treated as a threat. A journalist exposing corruption can be accused of undermining national interest. An NGO receiving international support can be labeled foreign interference.

#RejectSovereigntyBill

[Ritah Kase ⭐ @asiimireritah]

📌 "An estimate of 1 Million Ugandans are in diaspora. If a Law is a shield against sovereign interference , why should we then be looking at a North Korea kind of Law?" - @SarahBireete #SovereigntyBillUG
#RejectSovereigntyBill https://t.co/ONtpo6SkXy

[Nahabwe Bruce @brucenahabwe1]

The more they tried to silence Hon @GorrethNamugga, the louder her impact became.

[Nahabwe Bruce @brucenahabwe1]

Update: JohnMary Ssebuwufu has been dumped at Nakawa court. He joins other leaders Lina Zedriga & Jolly Tukamushaba who have been dumped at several courts as well after 3 weeks incommunicado.

[Hon. Rose Nalubowa @RoseNalubowa]

Among the empty ballot boxes, one was discovered with a broken bottom. Additionally, a ballot box at Kimwaanyi P7 School Polling Station was found containing ballot papers marked for a single NRM candidate only. Where is the credibility of the recount process?

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Uganda Leader Museveni is Right Bobi Wine ‘Stole’ 2.7 Million Votes, But Wrong About The Victim
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni just won a 9th term (two of the unelected) on January 15, with 71.6% of the vote. His main rival Robert Kyagulanyi (more popularly Bobi Wine) who had his house attacked by soldiers after the election, and is on the run, has rejected the result as “fake”. Every election result in which Museveni has been declared winner in his 40 years in power, has been disputed.
Before this election, and now after, President Museveni has been arguing that Bobi Wine and his party "stole" 2.7 million votes in the 2021 election, illegally introducing them in the system. He says for the 2026 election, those votes were cleaned out, which is meant to partly explain the increase of his vote to 71.6%. He has not presented any evidence for his claim, but let us accept for argument’s sake that he is correct.
If Museveni is right, then it is a strategic blunder because it creates a mathematical paradox that undermines the legitimacy of his own victories, both in the past and the present. Secondly, it portrays
Bobi Wine as a logistical genius with the operational reach required to run a state – which Museveni otherwise claims he doesn’t have.
Starting with 2021, if we assume Museveni’s claim is true, the official 2021 numbers stop making sense:
Museveni won with 5.85 million votes (58%) against Bobi Wine’s 3.48 million (35%).
If 2.7 million of Bobi Wine's votes in 2021 were "illegal" and we remove them from consideration, his real total would drop to just 780,000 votes. Nationally, this would mean Wine received only 9% of the vote—an absurdity given his party swept the parliamentary seats in the country's most populous central region of Buganda and parts of Busoga in the lower East.
Removing those 2.7 million votes drops the total ballots cast from 10.7 million to 8 million. The turnout percentage would fall from 59% to 44%. If we further reduce this by a conservative 15% (to account for wider irregularities), turnout in 2021 hits a historic low of 37.7%.
For Museveni to still hold 5.85 million votes in this scenario, he would have received 86% of every "real" vote cast. In an election where the heart of the country (Buganda and Kampala) was visibly hostile to him, an 86% mandate is a statistical fairy tale.
It doesn't end there. If 2.7 million votes were introduced, they would have to be concentrated in the opposition strongholds to make sense. But in 2021, the Electoral Commission reported 100% turnout in 409 polling stations—mostly in Museveni’s strongholds (like Western Uganda and Karamoja). Mathematically, it is much easier to stuff a ballot box in a remote area where you have 100% control than to introduce 2.7 million fake people in high-scrutiny urban areas like Kampala or Wakiso where Bobi Wine is actually popular.
Then its causes more problems for the latest January 15, 2026, vote. By claiming the election commissioned "cleansed" 2.7 million illegal entries for the 2026 election, Museveni creates a massive logic gap in the current voter roll:
If 2.7 million "fake" voters were deleted, the register should have dropped to 15.4 million before any new growth. To reach 21.6 million today, Uganda would have needed to register roughly 6.2 million new genuine voters in five years.
This represents a 40.2% increase in the "real" base. Since Uganda’s voting-age population only grows by roughly 3% annually, adding 6.2 million voters is demographically impossible. It would prove that the 2026 register was simply re-inflated with a different set of "ghosts" to facilitate Museveni’s jump to 71.6%.
But beyond the data, the argument creates a big political problem. If Bobi Wine—an opposition leader with no control over partisan security forces and the Electoral Commission or the internet—could "insert" 2.7 million votes, it implies Museveni lost control of the state machinery. He is essentially crowning Wine as more competent than the NRM’s security apparatus.
Museveni is further agreeing with critics that the system is broken; he is simply trying to change the "owner" of the ghosts.
As a good Ugandan might say, “Mzee should let this one sleep”.
Photo/Police pin down a voter near a polling station in Kampala on January 15, 2026, general election/AFP

[Jeje Odea 🇺🇬 @joshjeje2]

There is a court order directing Police to vacate Bobi Wine's premises.

However Police has not adhered to the court order.

Rule of law died in this country.

[Nahabwe Bruce @brucenahabwe1]

NTV has run a story highlighting cases where @NUP_Ug candidates lost their seats because they were in prison during voting, while NRM candidates allegedly resorted to rigging to secure their positions.

[Hon. Rose Nalubowa @RoseNalubowa]

By this morning, a total of 6 ballot boxes had been found completely empty, with no ballot papers inside. This includes one of the 11 ballot boxes cited in the application, which was alleged not to have been tallied. What further evidence does court require to take action?

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Ugandan authorities have intensified attacks on the country’s main opposition party since Jan 15 presidential elections, with mass arrests of National Unity Platform supporters and the forcible disappearance of two senior leaders, who remain missing. https://t.co/f2uxZM4DI1