Julius Kaka

Field Network Coordinator-East & Southern Africa @GI_TOC ||Member Uganda's Past,Uganda's Future @s_pasts ||Previously Teaching-@UCUniversity MUC, @GuluVarsity

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

In “The Peloponnesian War,” writes Jonathan Kirshner, the Athenian general Thucydides showed that there are limits to what brute force can accomplish—and warned “that the ambition of the strong can lead to their own undoing.”
https://t.co/pRNZg8R7Vj

[Uganda High Commission, London @UGHighCommLDN]

The Invictus Games Foundation, under the patronage of Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, yesterday welcomed the Republic of Uganda into the Invictus Games community, joining a family of 26 nations, at a ceremony held at Chatham House.

The occasion brought together Ministers of Defence and senior representatives from participating nations. In his opening remarks, Prince Harry observed that "what brings us together is far more important than what sets us apart," underscoring the shared values of resilience, recovery, and international solidarity that define the Invictus movement.

Uganda was represented by the Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka, and the Minister of State for Sports, Hon. Peter Ogwang. Also in attendance were senior officers of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and Ms Patricia Kabuleeta of the Uganda High Commission in London.

Uganda looks forward to contributing to the continued growth of the Invictus Games movement, standing alongside fellow member nations, and participating in the Invictus Games Birmingham 2027. @UgandaMFA

[Labeja Julius Acire @PaLabeja]

Thank you so much @UgandaRedCross for your response last night.

[Julius Kaka @JuliusKaka4]

@allimadi @FIFAWorldCup Interesting proposal !! The select side would make a very strong team.

[Julius Kaka @JuliusKaka4]

The conceptual innovation and empirical insights makes this a great "opener" for 2026.

[ENACT @ENACT_Africa]

Research paper > Criminal colonialism: European organised crime in Africa – an exploratory study

Mark Shaw and Alex Goodwin explore > https://t.co/n8UNJBug9a

@GI_TOC

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

You can purchase a hard copy from Makerere UP’s website by clicking below, and it shall be online open access in December 2026. https://t.co/gV8vbj5Ieo

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

Our book is out ! After months of research, writing, exciting feed back from reviewers, here it is at last: Reinventing Uganda. Political Imagination and Social Change after the fall of Idi Amin, Nairobi, Africae, Kampala, Makerere University Press, 2025.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

Today’s personality ; @FGimara

Team leader ; @TheGuluMarathon

Yesterday I was thinking about @FGimara and how he has decided to push @TheGuluMarathon brand.

@FGimara has made sure @TheGuluMarathon is certified by world athletics and he is going to fly top quality timing group for super standards.

I am a team leader for @RwenzoriMarathn also a certified marathon that comes with clear guidelines and conditions.

As a team leader you have to mobilize resources/ money, you have to spend your own money most times and needs a lot of your time too.

Right now bookings for hotel rooms in Gulu are in high gear, they aren’t for @FGimara but Gulu will be the first beneficiary. It will take @FGimara 7yrs for @FGimara to make financial sense to him.

But Gulu benefits immediately through great PR you are seeing, the hotels, restaurants will be making money, Bodas will make money, fuel stations will make money, supermarkets etc.

Several service providers, tents, music systems, dancers, many young people will be deployed to assist with making sure the marathon is run very well, world athletics standard!

It’s not just Gulu that benefits people along the way to Gulu and Kampala too. You are seeing adverts on billboards, several service providers will come from Kampala too.

A young brigade of social medial influencers led by @WasswaEmma_ and @Uganda_Expozed have been deployed, its benefits go far.

Team and team leaders work so hard before the marathon that after it, one just wants to rest and not even think about how hard it was. It’s different if it’s a fun run.

To organize a world class marathon will require between usd 2.5m to 3m like you can see standard chartered bank Nairobi marathon.

This year, it had over 30k runners who spent millions of dollars in Nairobi plus massive PR value to Kenya and Nairobi as a city.

Nairobi thankfully has massive number of Airbnbs and lots of hotel rooms so they can easily accommodate 30k runners and 1000s who just come to watch the runners.

We are trying to run world athletics certified marathons on very bare minimum right now but we are hopeful that things will get a lot better.

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

À son of Uganda has done us proud! Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani !
Go run that great city well. Make it affordable for wananchi.
#UgandaZaabu
@jumuiya

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The lessons from the murder of Charlie Kirk, one of the worst moments in recent American history, are worth learning, Graeme Wood writes. And they are, mercifully, bipartisan, because they are human and universal: https://t.co/dhChf43n7n

📸: Tess Crowley / Deseret News / AP

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Young South African 🇿🇦 boy Mickie Jay creates a robot and tested it with his mother.

[Southern Africa Resource Watch @The_SARWatch]

Panel 2 | Energy Transition & Fossil Fuels in Africa

After geopolitics, the Dialogue turned to a harder reality: Africa’s deep dependence on oil, coal, and gas.

@BobFxOcitti (AU–AFREC) reminded us that fossil fuels are still the backbone of many African economies. They cannot simply be wished away — the challenge is how to manage them with foresight and strategy, so Africa is not stranded in a decarbonising world.

Hon. @FasihaHassan (South African Parliament) pushed further: the transition must not deepen dependency or inequality. It must be about sovereignty, justice, and jobs for Africa’s youth — not repeating cycles of extraction that leave communities behind.

The message: Africa’s path through the energy transition will depend on how it balances today’s realities with tomorrow’s ambitions.

#EnergyDialogue2025 #EnergyTransition #AfricaEnergy

[Julius Kaka @JuliusKaka4]

@PanAfricanRev Samahani kusikia hivi. MHSRIP!

[Julius Kaka @JuliusKaka4]

@FGoloobaMutebi @sejudav Surely, it was worth a polite reminder!

[OPOKA Simon @OPOKASimon]

United in Mission: Celebrating Faith and Fighting Poverty in Acoli, Northern Uganda.

Dear countrymen, friends, and partners,

We are thrilled to share a powerful moment captured during the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Archbishop Dr. John Baptist Odama’s Priestly Vocation at Christ The King, Kitgum Vicariate, Gulu Archdiocese. In this cherished photo, taken by the Reverend Chaplain Assistant to Bishop Ochola, we stand together: Caimon Opoka, Mr. Onyach Olaa Martin, His Grace Dr. John Baptist Odama, Amb. Prof. Olara Otunnu, Rt. Rev. Bishop Macleod Baker Ochola II, and Kadhi Sheikh Kalil.

During this joyous occasion, Amb. Prof. Olara Otunnu proudly introduced the Rocco Paco Taskforce on Perennial Crops (TCP), co-chaired by Martin Onyach-Olaa (recent World Bank retiree) and Dr. Okello Collins (Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Gulu University), with Caimon Opoka serving as Secretary. The congregation warmly embraced our mission to transform Acoli households through sustainable farming.

Our vision is bold yet practical: to eradicate poverty by empowering every household to cultivate coffee, cocoa, cashew nuts, and bananas, starting small at just ¼ acre. With faith and determination, we believe this initiative will bring lasting prosperity with perennials as complimentary cash crops (poto mono) besides all we grow today.

Bi Ruu Bene! Acoli, let us move forward together as a people-a nation, leaving no one behind!

In faith and service,
Simon Opoka

[Kyambogo History Dept @KyambogoHistory]

Join us on Mon Aug 11, at 10am (@KyambogoArts Boardroom) for Prof. Toyin Falola(@FalolaNetwork ) talk:
“The Limitations of Western Education in Africa”. Dr. Robert Ojambo, our Chair, will respond. Zoom link: https://t.co/tT7SjAaka1?… Meeting ID: 959 7944 0527 Passcode: kyu2025.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

As Europeans and Americans do their utmost to turn away families fleeing violence, Ugandans are still upholding humanity and giving protection to the vulnerable:

At Kisoro, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands have since the start of the year crossed over to safety from ongoing conflict in North Kivu. Transit centres have been under pressure, operating far over their capacity.

Uganda already hosts almost 2 million refugees and asylum seekers – it is one of the most generous host countries in the world. Most come from DR Congo, with others from Sudan and South Sudan.

Uganda’s ability to receive desperate people fleeing violence has been severely hampered by European and US budget cuts. It is vital that the remaining host countries are given the support they need – all countries must share responsibility.

[Florence Brisset-Foucault @florencebrisset]

Our film on the history of Ugandan cartoonists under Idi Amin (1971-79) is about to be released ! You can have a look at the trailer in the meantime... 1/6 https://t.co/OJ8SXLTROa

[Kristof Titeca @KristofTiteca]

"This article provides a rare systematic analysis of workers’ experiences on a Chinese-financed& constructed hydroelectric dam in Africa. We find that chronic verbal abuse of African workers by Chinese managers is a defining feature of labour relations at this project in #Uganda"

[Julius Kaka @JuliusKaka4]

@GodwinTOKO If you look closely, you will see that "kins" dominate the Uganda (History and Biography) section in Acacia, Garden City and Jinja Road Branches.