If, or should I say when, the current status quo changes in Uganda, we’ll have to live with its proponents.
Besides the very few members of the ruling elite who can flee the country, the vast majority of its supporters have nowhere else to go. Uganda is our only home. They, and their families, will be here.
It therefore behooves the supporters of the current establishment to take a long-term view, and to educate themselves, that patriotism is not a forced love of the country, but our ability to accommodate each other in our diversity - knowing that power is transient, a revolving door - and that our collective security lies in our abilities to accommodate each other.
Today’s Muhoozi’s are tomorrow’s Malyamungus (Amin’s dreaded henchman), today’s Birungis (now Otto -the (in)famous CMI) are tomorrow’s Rwakasis or Buturus (Obote’s vicious enforcers).
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, we must learn to live together as brothers (and sisters) or perish as fools.
Hope @RKirunda's words reach the heads of @NRMOnline apologists & enablers. The tragedy of these useful idiots is that they mistake access to power for immunity from its consequences. One day, they too may stand where this woman stands-begging for the very mercy they once denied others.
Kenyans online have started sharing videos in remembrance of those who were killed during the June 25, 2024 and June 25, 2025 protests, as they prepare to mark the anniversary tomorrow.
The broad daylight ballot stuffing as captured by vigilant citizens. This has been the order of the day at numerous polling stations! Soldiers, goons and even other security operatives were seen stuffing pre-ticked ballot papers in favor of the NRM candidate. Broad day shamelessness!
#KalangalaOnTheSpot
WILLIAM RUTO’S GOVT OWES STANDARD GROUP SH1.2 BILLION IN UNPAID ADS
Instead of paying, he went on X at 9:49 am to call them extortionists, blackmailers and propagandists — from the highest office in the land.
Standard hit back with four words that buried him: “We have the receipts.”
The real blackmail, they said, is your government withholding Sh1.2 billion to strangle a media house into silence.
Ruto threatened “Do your WORST.”
Standard responded: We will hold the government accountable for any harm to our journalists, directors and shareholders”
A sitting President, angry and exposed, picked a public fight with a newspaper he owes money to.
He didn’t win. He lost. Angered. And conquered …
THANK YOU UGANDA FOR STANDING WITH ME!
Five days of hell but you still stood for the truth, for freedom, for justice and for a better country!
Thank you my President @HEBobiwine and everyone that put together every piece of effort and prayer to realize my freedom!
Thank you!
🇮🇷 Verdad clara y sin filtros del Presidente de Irán, Masoud Pezeshkian.
“Si no tuviéramos nuestros misiles de autodefensa, Israel y Estados Unidos habrían arrasado Irán como arrasaron Gaza. No habrían tenido piedad ni de viejos ni de jóvenes. Hablan de derechos humanos… es una gran mentira. Si no pudiéramos defendernos, habrían destruido nuestro país. Por eso nunca negociamos nuestras capacidades defensivas.”
Exacto. Gaza es el ejemplo vivo de lo que pasa cuando un pueblo no puede defenderse ante la barbarie sionista: masacres, niños asesinados, ciudades convertidas en escombros.
Irán aprendió la lección.
La Resistencia aprendió la lección. La dignidad se defiende con fuerza, no con súplicas.
Mientras el imperio sionista-estadounidense amenaza y destruye, los pueblos libres eligen resistir.
Gracias Presidente Pezeshkian por decir la verdad que duele.
Tomorrow, we are marching peacefully to Parliament to lay flowers for the Gen Z heroes whose lives were ruthlessly cut short by police bullets.
We have asked President Ruto and his government to line up uniformed police officers along the route we gave them to protect us and businesses from his gang of goons and killer cops. This request is not a favour but a constitutional right to a peaceful march. No more illegal arrests, abductions, bloodshed, and killings.
For those outside Nairobi, feel free to visit the families of the Gen Z heroes. Their sacrifice shall not be forgotten, and one day their killers and their masters will be held accountable.
#Justice4ourMashujaa #HakiSASA #JusticeNOW
Why the state fears Karua, Lukwago
A business-class return ticket between Nairobi and Entebbe costs approximately Shs 3.5 million. Combined with accommodation expenses, Karua is estimated to spend about Shs 5 million on each trip to Uganda.
“Karua has been meeting her own accommodation and ticket costs. We only pick her up from and drop her off at the airport. She is part of a network of African leaders advocating for democracy across East Africa and the continent. That explains why representatives from several African countries have attended Besigye’s court proceedings. Martha has been coordinating all of them,” a source said.
“Museveni has been uncomfortable with Karua from the beginning. When Besigye’s health deteriorated, Museveni became concerned and considered releasing him, but he wanted it done in a way that would not give Karua any credit. When he was informed that the deterioration was linked to a hunger strike, he abandoned the idea and instead directed that Besigye’s file be transferred to the High Court, which was what Besigye had been demanding.”
https://t.co/UfMpXNrHMx
Just returned from Murchison Bay, Luzira, to check on Ssalongo @EriasLukwago. He is still frail. His blood pressure shot up again last night when he learnt that bail was not granted.
When we asked prison authorities why they are still holding a sick man despite the court order that he should be taken to Mulago hospital, they told us that they are still within the 24-hour court limit.
Counsel Lukwago thanks you all for your solidarity. He says your pressure is the reason he was moved out of the basement. He emphasized that if he had stayed in that basement for another day breathing through just a tiny hole for oxygen, he would not have survived!
#freeeriaslukwago
#Freepoliticalprisoners
I now understand why our grands supported pure foreigners to take over Gov't in 1986. They were really tired like we are now.
Right now I would also support even a dog as long as it can overthrow these 1986 bandits from our Country.
“We request those responsible to ensure our country is governed on a system that respects human dignity, human rights and the rule of law. That’s the only way we can achieve peace and stability in our country”.
His Majesty Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II
Kabaka of Buganda.
The right to assemble, protest, and speak freely is not a favour granted by those in power; it is a constitutional right belonging to the people. A government that sees every demonstration as a threat rather than a message has already lost sight of whom it is supposed to serve.
How Kenyan Lawyer Karua Became the EAC's Greatest Legal ‘Nuisance’ (But Senegal Welcomed Her)
THE outspoken Kenyan politician and lawyer, Martha Karua, is a heroic but rare African species: a fearless cross-border legal activist.
On 22 June 2026, the former Justice minister touched down at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, carrying a temporary practising certificate to join the defence team of long‑suffering opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye. Instead of a courtroom, she walked into a state‑sponsored ambush.
Detained incommunicado at the airport, her phones seized, she was slapped with a sudden “red alert” and deported back to Nairobi under a vague persona non grata decree. Kampala’s rulers could not stomach her presence at the same time that they were prosecuting Besigye’s tortured lead counsel, Mayor Erias Lukwago, with whom she had stood side‑by‑side in earlier battles for the veteran opposition leader, until soldiers snatched him in the dead of night a few days ago.
Karua’s deportation was unusual and troubling. Uganda has long been touchy about hindering East Africans travelling freely, because President Yoweri Museveni likes to cast himself as a champion of regional and continental integration. Blocking her from entering the court would have been par for the course, but turning Karua away as a Kenyan at the airport marked a new low.
It was not her first brush with autocratic paranoia. Barely a year earlier, on 18 May 2025, she was intercepted at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam. Her offence then was travelling to serve as an international trial observer for Chadema leader Tundu Lissu, who faced politically engineered treason charges designed to hobble his presidential bid. Tanzanian authorities promptly bundled her onto a flight back home.
Contrast this hostility with her reception in Dakar in May 2023. Karua flew across the continent to stand shoulder‑to‑shoulder with besieged Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko. There, the state allowed her to perform her solidarity mission without interference. The irony is sharp. Karua is not an ECOWAS citizen, yet they afforded her safe passage. It is within her own backyard, the East African Community, where paranoid sister states systematically shred her right to free movement.
Why does she carry this torch? To answer that, one must understand Kenya. She is the product of a fiercely independent legal civil society forged during the turbulent 1990s “Second Liberation” struggle against domestic autocracy. That crucible produced a breed of activist lawyers who view constitutionalism as an offensive weapon rather than a textbook theory.
In the process, she has become a lonely traveller. Few heavyweight lawyers tread this path. Nigeria’s formidable Femi Falana is her closest contemporary, having spent decades braving state hostility across West Africa and aggressively using the ECOWAS Court to litigate against tyrants in Gambia, Guinea, and Togo.
We see glimpses of this spirit, too, in another Nigerian, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, whose decades‑long strategic litigation has kept civic space breathing across sub‑regions. Zimbabwe’s Brian Kagoro also deserves mention, an outspoken champion of democratic transitions across borders despite repeated arbitrary detentions.
Karua might have been foiled, but in Africa, sometimes that is enough. Often, the most revolutionary act is simply showing up in solidarity with the tormented, even if you only reach the back of the courtroom, or make it only as far as the Immigration desk before being driven away.