Ambrose Etigu

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

You Africans, start thinking beyond big cars and big houses.

Here's something to deepen your minds.

It's an interview by the Hungarian Conservative of the former Director of Israel's Mossad.

https://t.co/BBrIA9mmkv

A simple man, but one who held the Middle East in his hand.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If the key to becoming a billionaire is to exploit people, as some politicians claim, we at YC are idiots. We've spent the last 20 years choosing the wrong founders and teaching them the wrong things. Or maybe we do actually understand startups, and the politicians are wrong.

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

As we talk now, we don’t have Ebola in the country. Even the Congolese patient we have been treating has tested negative.

@DianaAtwine - PS Ministry of Health #Uganda

[The Artist Fellowship @TAFship]

MAY CREATIVE CHALLENGE 🎨
This month, creatives will be paired at random to collaborate, create, and learn together across different styles and mediums.

The goal is simple: connect, create, and have fun.
Ready to participate?
Link in the comments. #TAF

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

For too long, Africa’s resources have been extracted, the value captured elsewhere, the environmental damage left behind.

No more exploitation. No more plundering.

The people of Africa must benefit - first & most - from the resources of Africa.

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

Ugandans are headed for tough times following the new Tax laws that were okeyed by the parliament of Uganda effective 1st July 2026.

1. High Income Earner Tax..Every Ugandan who saves over Shs100M on his or her bank account will be charged with a 10% tax that is Shs12M because you earn alot of money.

2. A 15% tax has also been slapped on forex trading, bet and gaming winners like Shalom a social media influencer who has been going around bragging how he always wins millions in beting football games, so if for example anyone wins Shs1M in betting only Shs850k will be given out so the govt will take the 150K.

3. Mobile money agents are also facing tough times after a 10% With hilding Tax on Commission was introduced on their monthly earnings through Mobile money and telecomunication services say if any agent is to be paid Shs1M as commission ,govt must first deduct Shs100K them Shs900k will be left for him or her.

4. A 6% With Holding Tax has also been squeezed on purchase of Non business assests say like land ,if you are going to buy land of Shs100M ,the govt will have to first receive Shs6M as tax for your land deal.

5. As if that was not enough, if any one fails to pay the abive mentioned tax he ir she faces 20years in Luzira Prison or a Shs4billion fine .

6. Following intellingence reports that NGOs were secretly sponsoring political uprising by NUP president to overthrow Gen Museveni's NRM govt in Kampala , their operations have also been pushed on the wall following the Foreign Funding Cap that was introduced warning anyone who receives Shs400M in a year without notifying relevant authorities like security organs or Bank Of Uganda will regret his actions.

7. Agents Of Foreigners were also not spared , these who fall in categories of Born Again Christians ,orphanages etc will have to inform the relevant minitries on their operations.

8. Banks have also been notified that they should immediately freeze any bank account that receives large sums of money from unknown sources.

9. Hard working ugandans who save/earn over Shs10M a year will have to pay a tax of Shs2.8M because of being in the middle class.
Those earning Shs500K will also have to pay Shs26K.

Anyways Paying taxes wouldnt be bad if it was serving its purpose....!!! We shall over come some day. There's time for everything. Sourced from (Ritah K)

[Ambrose Etigu @aetigu]

@uganda_re @The_UIA Our condolences to her family, friends, and all who were touched by her life. May her soul RIP

[Silver Kayondo @SilverKayondo]

#Uganda needs to realize why most of these foreign investors invest here. Many shareholders will tell you it is the people (Ugandans). A big number first came here as tourists & nature's charm made them consider investing

We can't be decimating the very structures that market us

[ISOC Uganda Chapter @ISOCUg]

🚨 DATE CHANGE ALERT 🚨
Attention: Uganda Internet Governance Week is moving! 📅 NEW DATE: July 20 - 24.

More info and updates at https://t.co/FLX3u6JBW8.
#EventUpdate #UIGWEEK2026

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

[Ron Kazooba Kawamara @Ronkawamara]

Requiring a Ugandan citizen or business to obtain the Minister of Foreign Affairs' permission before conducting a transaction totaling UGX 400M in a calendar year is a prior restraint. Prior restraint is unconstitutional. It assumes one is going to commit a crime, and thus must be restricted before the crime is committed.

In fact, this bill penalizes banks with a fine or imprisonment for any transaction from a foreign agent, regardless of amount, that is not pre-approved by the minister. A foreign agent is anyone outside the borders at the time of the transaction, and the minister has the power to designate anyone as a foreigner.

If you have raised money from VCs, equity funds/loans, etc., you know money does not wait for red tape or a minister to approve a business proposal or funding. The NGO Act and the Anti-Money Laundering Act already criminalize illegal transactions.

But let's be honest, NGOs, social activists, and political parties whose funding this law is designed to regulate are just businesses in disguise. Let the money from foreigners come in, and let these Ugandans who masquerade as NGOs, social activists, and opposition enjoy it. They will share it with us - their families, friends, churches, bars, etc. Bad Black was right. Let's not criminalize Ugandans who get money from stupid foreigners.

If stupid foreigners think they are funding real social activists, NGOs, or opposition parties, and yet they are feeding hungry politicians and social activists, why stop this?

Don't save these foreign idiots from the heist, don't stop the hassle of these Ugandan politicians/activists / NGOs. It's a game. It's a hassle. Just tax the hassle, and we coexist.

I'm confident parliament, with the good guidance of @KagutaMuseveni, will amend this bill.

[Godfrey KUTEESA!! @GODFREY_Kutesa]

Woooow

[diplo @diplo]

I'm ugly af but Uganda is perfect 👌. U can shoot anything here and it's gonna look good https://t.co/04CAS3AnkO

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Notch and his sons crossing the Mara River to reclaim their territory. After being driven out of the Marsh Pride, he raised his five sons alone something almost unheard of for a male lion. He was building his army.

[Victor Glover @AstroVicGlover]

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Matt @nosoupforgeorge]

It blows my mind that the projected splashdown time for Artemis II was 5:07pm, and it was, in fact, 5:07pm.

Just a casual spot-on ETA from the fucking moon, no big deal.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

A brilliant engineering marvel. NASA experts explain how to stop a massive twenty six ton spacecraft traveling at twenty five thousand miles per hour by literally slamming it into a wall of air. The capsule brilliantly survives five thousand degrees of heat.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Around the moon and back in a week. That was better than any TV I've seen in a long time