David Mukholi

Writer. Media & Communication Consultant. Uganda. Africa.

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

https://t.co/gGxoIiMEgt What Moses Ali wrote before death

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Israel is planning a crocodile-filled moat around a maximum-security prison holding suspected members of Hamas. The plan has sparked criticism from human rights groups, while raising questions on whether one of Africa’s most feared predators can be used as a security measure.

[Math Files @Math_files]

This 1986 protest literally happened. Teachers marched in the streets warning that calculators would ruin an entire generation’s ability to think.

[African Union @_AfricanUnion]

Did you know that one of Africa's key trade agreements goes beyond moving goods and also protects ideas?

The Protocol on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to build a single African market that supports innovation.

From a start-up’s new technology in Nairobi to a fashion brand in Dakar, a medical breakthrough in Cairo, or music from Lagos, the Protocol makes it easier to protect and commercialise intellectual property across Africa.

The Protocol focuses on several key areas:
1. Aligning IP rules across African countries to lower barriers for innovators and businesses
2. Encouraging national IP offices and regional organisations to work together for better protection and enforcement
3. Helping innovators, researchers, creatives, and entrepreneurs secure patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, and geographical indications
4. Promoting technology transfer, research, investment, and innovation to support sustainable industry and growth

For Africa's innovators, intellectual property is more than just a legal idea. It is an economic asset that turns ideas into businesses, creativity into jobs, and innovation into products and services that can compete across Africa and around the world.

Read more here - https://t.co/SiVrSC0777

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A leopard burst into a liquor store in India and attacked a terrified worker after injuring multiple others in a frightening morning rampage.

The big cat allegedly attacked a volunteer who was investigating earlier leopard sightings before it charged into the store, where it mauled another man.

Wildlife specialists reportedly tranquilized and captured the leopard.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Andy Burnham has become UK prime minister, replacing Sir Keir Starmer in No 10 Downing Street.

Burnham, who became leader of the Labour Party on Friday, is the fourth prime minister in five years. https://t.co/ugwjHJOuQf

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

https://t.co/UGPrWRXmCM Lord Mayor Balimwezo, a politician to watch

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

https://t.co/uelzxA7A4S Will expelling foreigners reduce unemployment in South Africa?
#MandelaDay #SouthAfricaupdates #politicsnews

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

https://t.co/2Dv2IaSLOf #UgandaPolitics

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

Google says it was around Karuma area

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

https://t.co/kjZOB820XU Why ideology, numbers and power matter

[Amon 👷 @rwenzori_]

Mbale Industrial Park has more than 100 factories. When fully operational, it will have 150 factories.
The factories employ 11,000+ people and at full capacity it will employ 20,000+. Mbale is slowly turning into an economic hub of uganda.

Let me see someone from Mbale!

[David Mukholi @dmukholi1]

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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.

That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.

Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime.

Because Iran’s leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering.

Every future meeting of Iran’s senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too.

This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure.

In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience.

Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously.

Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran’s command cohesion.

That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW

[𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔥 @josh_bw1]

@AndersFoghR Thank you for sharing your thoughtful perspective on this vital issue.

[Anders Fogh Rasmussen @AndersFoghR]

I have always admired the United States.
As Prime Minister and Secretary General, I considered America the leader of the free world. But following the threats to Greenland, I must now conclude that enough is enough. Europe must defend its interests.

My contribution to @TheEconomist: https://t.co/rqxU44yCYT

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

“… The circumstances around Museveni’s advancing age in a presidentialist state are characteristic of what happens in a household of an ageing father that had organised the running of the home around himself.
If he is not willing to relinquish some of his powers to members of his family, either much of the work goes undone or the family members start to position themselves to exploit his vulnerability to take whatever they can …

To a considerable extent, he is trapped now. His own security lies in their hands. In the power struggle that might ensue, the old man starts hearing competing narratives (call it ‘intelligence’) from different members of the family that position themselves to ‘eat’ from him.
The spirit of the home becomes that of ‘okubaza mzee’ (duping the old man). That is how he starts contradicting himself. Today he acts according to word from one member of the family, tomorrow he realises that he was lied to.

Yet still, he doesn’t want ‘outsiders’ to know that he is losing grip of his family. He still has to put up a public façade of being in charge, even when the body obviously shows otherwise…”

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[NBS Television @Fireliglntfi]

PHOTOS: @NRMOnline presidential candidate @KagutaMuseveni is at Binyonyi Primary School Playground in Kween district for his campaign rally.

📸: @francis_isano

#UgVotes2026 #NBSUpdates

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🚨 Dame Sarah Mullally has been announced as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury

Read more about her here ⬇️
https://t.co/CbWsLtiue0