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[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

30 mins before the market opens. This, ladies and gents, is what market manipulation looks like.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Goldman Sachs warns oil could reach $120/barrel if Strait of Hormuz remains closed

[Chris Obore @ChrisObore1]

If you are educated and then given responsibility to help the peasants with government programs ; then you cheat peasants! Are you educated , stupid , greedy or what ? Who will develop us if all we know is stealing?

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

BREAKING NEWS: NTV Uganda, Spark TV forced off air as Daily Monitor shutdown on Gen Muhoozi order

Details👇🏽
https://t.co/LjJUc9ow4S

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

Chelsea in the dust 😅 @Amviktar

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

A closer look at the key games 👀🔥

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

2017
Oh how the turn tables 😅

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

Good video, but for a moment I thought I had gone deaf in one ear 😅😅

[UgHistory @UGHistory256]

June 2005.

State House Nakasero.

Jon Snow, the British journalist, sat across from Yoweri Museveni.

It was a rare one-on-one interview.

Eight months before the presidential election, Kizza Besigye was still in exile in South Africa.

The main challenger was absent.

The president was alone with the questions.

The Interview: Museveni, Jon Snow, and the Questions That Would Not Wait - 2005

The war was long over.

The peace was deeply uncertain.

Nineteen years after his guerrilla army marched into Kampala, Museveni was still in power, but the man who had once been his personal physician, Kizza Besigye, had fled into exile after the disputed 2001 election, watching from South Africa as the next campaign approached.

The president who had ended the chaos of the 1970s and 1980s was now facing the same questions that had brought him to the bush decades earlier:

Who guards the guardians, and how long is liberation supposed to last?

Snow pressed on the G8's practice of tying trade and support to governance conditions.

Museveni drew a sharp line between "short-term painkillers" like debt relief and what he called the real "medicine": fair trade access.

Africa did not need prescriptions from those who had already taken their own medicine generations ago, he argued.

The critique was layered with historical awareness, a fluency that few African leaders brought to international television.

Then Snow asked whether liberation heroes risked becoming "elected dictators."

"How can you be an elected dictator?

Who elects you?"

Museveni shot back.

But he added a crucial qualifier:

"Unless the elections aren't fair."

It was an admission that democratic legitimacy ultimately rests on the integrity of the ballot box, a principle he accepted, even as his opponents questioned whether it was being honoured at home.

The spectre of 2001, when the Supreme Court had acknowledged widespread cheating but let the result stand, hung unspoken in the air.

On Zimbabwe, Museveni declined to join the chorus of Western condemnation.

"In Africa, we don't talk so lightly about the internal affairs of others,"
he said, insisting on thorough study over offhand criticism.

It was a careful answer that reflected his long-standing commitment to sovereignty and non-interference.

Yet the question itself signalled a shift:

The West, which had once celebrated him as a reformer, was beginning to scrutinise his own record.

The interview captured a moment of transition.

Museveni was entering his nineteenth year in power, still confident, still intellectually formidable.

But Besigye would return from exile just months later, and the election of 2006 would test the very questions Snow had raised.

The photograph of the two men, the British journalist and the African president, remains a snapshot of a leader who had outlasted wars and rivals, now facing a different kind of challenge:

The quiet, persistent pressure of democratic expectations, both at home and abroad.

#UgHistory #Museveni @KagutaMuseveni @NRMOnline @jonsnowC4 @Channel4 @Channel4News @GovUganda

[The Observer @observerug]

Ssemujju to Muhoozi: I’m not afraid of you; you’re not immortal

"So yes, I can feel pain. I can experience fear like any normal human being. But I will not lose sleep over Muhoozi. Let him come and arrest me. No problem.

Because after arresting me, will he become immortal?

Will he become an angel whom nobody can ever arrest?

Will he never fall sick?

Will even malaria become afraid to attack him?

Let Ugandans stop being excessively afraid of Muhoozi. Muhoozi has a duty to serve the interests of Ugandans, not his personal interests. Taxpayers pay him, and those taxpayers have every right to hold him accountable. So whatever he says, I care less."

https://t.co/WGXCMTfFzL

📹@BakerbatteLule

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨BREAKING: Someone just put $1M on Spain to WIN their match vs Cape Verde today

This pays out is $1,085,943.48 on Polymarket

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

@aliza_pearl The people who made some of your parents flee the country in the 1970s are the same ones in power today. (I don't know if that makes sense...)

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

We know that the cartels are working for the CIA.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A decomposing body has been found in the trunk of a car outside the Tijuana stadium where Iran’s team is training for the World Cup. Authorities say the body was wrapped in a plastic bag and showed signs of violence.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Justice.

[Nottingham Forest @NFFC]

Robbo. ❤️

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

The Catholic pope is on the verge of launching the Butlerian Jihad. Who would've thought?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

On the busy streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital, a quiet transformation is unfolding. Sleek, locally manufactured electric buses are becoming part of the city's daily rhythm, marking the country's accelerating drive toward greener and more sustainable urban transport https://t.co/1r7zxNMnSG

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

"As for Among herself, since becoming Speaker, she is showing a type of ambition that her boss, President Museveni, is already taking note of.

As NRM-FRONASA politics go, Among’s fall is just around the corner."

(Excerpt from my forthcoming Sunday column in the Daily Monitor)

[Godwin Makula @MGSsemakula]

Let's not get carried away.

[Egesa Ronald Leonard @regesa]

President @KagutaMuseveni and his son MK are very lucky men. Their Bacwezi ancestors have not yet forsaken them. Had they slept on the job a fortnight longer and AAA was re-elected as Speaker of Parliament, she had built a war chest big enough to sponsor an impeachment of the President and with that single action, MK would be on the run by the end of this year! Mind you, she would remain with enough change to disable the security apparatus from any military coups.

In the game of strategy, timing is key.