Tuvemu Akatengo

Naturephotography, a mother and a human rights activist for god and my country Uganda 🇺🇬 🙌

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

#Tanzania

"An 82-page submission to the International Criminal Court by a group of civil society organizations [has] stated that the Tanzanian authorities killed more than 3,000 civilians following polling day [last October]."

https://t.co/dHCUchvlQU @euobs

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

After rigging another election, Museveni jails opposition leaders for treason, then charges their lawyer with 'misprision of treason.' @mkainerugaba tweets his pride in torture. Can't make it up. #Uganda's democracy isn't dying. It's already in the ground.
https://t.co/cKH5O6VPf2

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

"It was only after evidence surfaced that Kagame and #Rwanda were backing a war that destabilized the entire region and jeopardized Western mineral interests that the United States imposed sanctions, and the EU began considering similar punitive actions."

https://t.co/gwJaK9c883

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

#Rwanda

"The Rwandan government has a well-established track record of evading its obligation to ensure transparent and independent investigations into the deaths of detainees and high-profile political critics in state custody."

https://t.co/20zTfo694Z

[Luyimbazi Nalukoola @EliasNalukoola]

Article 79 of our Constitution is clear: the mandate to legislate belongs to Parliament alone. By issuing direct "instructions" to committees on how to shape the Sovereignty Bill, the Executive is overstepping. The principle of separation of powers is not a suggestion—it is the bedrock of our democracy. Let Parliament do its work without coercion or "guidance" from the top.

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

"A dangerous assumption runs through many discussions of critical minerals: that African countries must choose between speed and scrutiny. ... The real trade-off is between democratic state-building now and political fragility later."

https://t.co/L4qXHNSpmM @JoDemocracy

[Tuvemu Akatengo @TAkatengo]

@AAgather @NUP_Ug Kitalo nyo. May her soul rest in peace 🙏🏾.

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

The wife of @NUP_Ug Deputy Spokesperson Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro is dead. Her husband has been behind bars for almost a year now. Trial against him has never commenced and he has been denied bail several times. When some of the charges against him were dropped, fresh ones were immediately brought up. He left his wife battling cancer and today she succumbed to it💔

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

"We want the international community ... to stop sponsoring terror in #Uganda, to stop sponsoring a dictator who has been in power for 40 years, to stop sponsoring a dictatorship that tortures people for fun on camera." -@HEBobiwine

https://t.co/XQeMMbPsoI @RFIAfrique

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

It is sad testament to how Uganda’s autocratic president Yoweri Museveni has undermined the country’s democracy that first he stole an unfair election and now he forces his leading opponent Bobi Wine to flee the country for his safety.

[Tuvemu Akatengo @TAkatengo]

@HEBobiwine Ishah Allah. We are going to win one day.

[King Saha @kingsaha_256]

😭😭😭

[UK Official People Power - NUP @uk_nup]

Ugandans, human rights and pro democracy supporters in the UK concluded a peaceful protest at the BBC Headquarters, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London this evening.

The campaigners appreciated the BBC for its three killings in Kampala Africa Eye investigation into dictator @KagutaMuseveni's and @NRMOnline's @GovUganda's crackdown on peaceful protesters in Uganda in November 2020, where over 50 peaceful citizens and bystanders were extrajudicially executed by the Ugandan military and police leading to the 2021 election.

The campaigners urged the BBC to continue exposing widespread repression, human rights violations, abductions, torture and enforced disappearances in Uganda and increase attacks on civil society groups, and the attacks on journalists and independent media, including violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.

The campaigners also called on the Kier Starmer's government as a major member of the Commonwealth to stop prioritising trade and profits over people, and propping up the Ugandan dictatorship and follow the European Union Parliament in condemnation of
the fraudulent election in Uganda, and call for @GovUganda to uphold human rights, democracy, and the rule of law as enshrined in the Commonwealth Charter, and for the UK Government
to hold perpetrators of abuses in Uganda to international account.

The campaigners further called on @GOVUK and @YvetteCooperMP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs @FCDOGovUK, the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer,
@10DowningStreet, Home Secretary, @ukhomeoffice, Shabana Mahmood, @ShabanaMahmood, and John Healey,
@JohnHealey_MP, Secretary of State for @DefenceHQ to impose sanctions targeting human rights violators and abusers in Uganda, and for suspension of military assistance, defence and security cooperation with Uganda, until the Ugandan military @MODVA_UPDF, security services @security_uganda and the police @PoliceUg stop interference in elections, abductions, torture, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and killings of dictator @KagutaMuseveni's political opponents.

@UKParliament @UKHouseofLords @CommonsForeign @UKinUganda @EUCouncil @EU_Commission @RMASandhurst @pritipatel @EUinUG @UKLabour @CommonsForeign @LisaJChesney @commonwealthsec @CPA_Secretariat @EmilyThornberry @Europarl_EN @BBCWorld @ArmyCGS @ArmyComdtRMAS @BBCBreaking @Conservatives @BBCNews @igp_ug1 @BritishArmy @BBCWales @Channel4 @LibDems @TheGreenParty @BBCScotland @BBCAfrica

#FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

[Dr. Shamim Nambassa @ShamimNambassa]

I felt it when Waisswa said

“He’s not in hiding , he’s working underground” ✊

[The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy @GenevaSummit]

“I am in hiding, but I don’t want to be in hiding. It was necessary, though, so I can stay alive and be able to speak to you right now.”

Listen to @HEBobiwine at #GenevaSummit2026 as he speaks about the cost of challenging Uganda’s regime during the January 2026 elections.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

As St. Pope John Paul II taught us, “Lent is a season of intense prayer, fasting, and concern for those in need.”

May we, in Uganda, dedicate this Lent period to praying for and supporting those who are suffering in the flesh, more so, the political prisoners, those who have been forcefully disappeared, those who have been orphaned, as well as those who are in exile. May we extend prayers and kindness to them in this season.

A blessed, reflective Lent to all Christians🙏🏽

Image: Dr. Lina Zedriga, NUP Deputy President, currently detained at Luzira Women's Prison.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Special message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. Ramadan Kareem 🤲

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

I was very fortunate to meet and draw inspiration from the American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, who sadly passed on today.

In word and deed, Jesse Jackson taught us that the struggle for human rights is a universal calling to humanity as a whole. He also taught us that ordinary people, when organized and courageous, can successfully confront and topple or force to reform entrenched systems of injustice.

For us in Uganda who continue to fight for our basic human rights, his life serves as a timely reminder that moral courage will always outlive oppression. Despite facing hostility and imprisonment, he never abandoned his belief in the power of the people.

At a time when many young people are questioning whether peaceful struggle can truly cause change, Jesse Jackson’s legacy answers with a firm YES. But that is only if we persist, if we unite, if we believe, and if we refuse to give up even in the face of impossible odds.

May his soul rest in eternal peace. And may his example strengthen our struggle for a New Uganda where justice is a right, not a privilege.

[National Geographic Documentary Films @natgeodocs]

Music as a message.

Now streaming on @disneyplus and @hulu.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

This morning, a team of @NUP_Ug lawyers and leaders tried to access our home in Magere. They were blocked by police and military operatives who have kept my home under siege since they raided it a month ago. They violently arrested one of our lawyers, Kakuru Tumusiime, and brutalised him. After several hours, they dumped him at a police station where he was interrogated about my whereabouts before being released on bond. They've charged him with 'common nuisance'. All this criminality taking place on a day our nation is commemorating Bishop Janani Luwum Day. UGANDA WILL BE FREE.
#FreeUgandaNow