hassan mayanja

Passionate about self realization and bridging gaps

[EACOP @EACOP_]

𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬

As part of our commitment to national content, we are proud to launch our Scholarship Program for students at @Makerere University and @kyambogou University.

Apply today and let us help you cross the finish line𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬

As part of our commitment to national content, we are proud to launch our Scholarship Program for students at @Makerere University and @kyambogou University.

Apply today and let us help you cross the finish line.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

Ready for the fight, send good vibes

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

THE WAIT IS OVER 🏆

#RolandGarros

[Daniel Bats🤝 @DanielBats_]

Good evening @CentenaryBank

[Dr.Anyama Alfred Berliner @DrBerlinerMD]

“It should be noted that in 1995 the Hon.@CHRISBARYOMUNS1 led a strike for medical interns that lead to increase of the pay of medical interns from 90,000 UgX to 180,000 UgX.” Dr.Asiimwe R Frank.

Now he is the minister of health and defending the position of government not to pay medical interns

[UgHistory @UGHistory256]

1988.

Betty Bigombe, an Acholi woman with degrees from Makerere and Harvard, was appointed Minister for Northern Uganda.

She walked into the bush to meet Joseph Kony.

He called her "Mummy."

She built a fragile bridge between the government and the LRA.

Then the talks collapsed.

But she had other gifts to give the world.

Betty Oyella Bigombe was born in 1952 in what was then Acholi District, today Amuru District.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from Makerere University in 1975, then won a fellowship to the Harvard Kennedy School, completing a Master of Public Administration in 1984, a rare international credential for a Ugandan woman at that time.

When the NRM took power in 1986, northern Uganda was already burning with the insurgency that would become the Lord's Resistance Army.

In 1988, President Museveni appointed Bigombe, still in her mid-thirties, as Minister of State for Northern Uganda.

Bigombe understood the conflict could not be ended by military force alone.

She saw it as a tapestry of political marginalisation, social collapse, and historical grievance.

So, she deployed a revolutionary strategy:

Personal engagement.

In the early 1990s, she made multiple journeys into the bush, often with minimal security, to meet the LRA's reclusive commander.

She approached him not as a distant official but as "Mummy Bigombe", a persona that leveraged her gender and deep understanding of Acholi kinship codes.

When Kony addressed her by that maternal title, it was a profound breakthrough.

She had used traditional structures to create trust where only fear had existed.

By 1993, her efforts had yielded a ceasefire, face-to-face talks, and the beginning of a peace process that many believed could end the war.

But the fragile bridge could not hold.

In early 1994, a seven-day ultimatum was issued for the LRA to surrender, and Bigombe's months of dangerous diplomacy gave way to a harder line.

The talks collapsed, and the war resumed.

Bigombe then turned to another love: post-conflict reconstruction.

She put her intellect and experience into a new chapter at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., becoming a senior specialist on post-conflict recovery, advising nations on how to stitch themselves back together after war.

Yet her legacy was far from finished.

When peace talks resumed in Juba in 2006, they rested on the premise she had established: that even the LRA could be engaged, that the Acholi tradition of mato oput, reconciliation, could be applied even to the most brutal conflicts.

Bigombe returned to Uganda in 2004 as a peace negotiator, her earlier work the foundation for all that followed.

She later served as Minister of State for Water Resources and remains one of Uganda's most respected voices on conflict resolution.

The bridge she built had been damaged, but its foundations endured, and helped guide the path toward peace.

Bigombe walked into the bush and called a warlord her son.

When that chapter closed, she took her gifts to the world stage, then returned home to serve again.

What does it mean to build something that outlasts its own setbacks?

#Ughistory #Bigombe @bbigombe @GovUganda

[𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝗥!𝗖𝗘 @DR41fanpage]

I told you all. It's done 🏆❤️

[Ali Ssekatawa @SsekatawaAli]

It is an honour to receive the Diamond Jubilee Medal from H.E. @KagutaMuseveni the President of Uganda.
I dedicate this to my mother, may she rest in peace, who believed in education as a pathway to opportunity.
I must also express gratitude towards my workmates with whom we have struggled for a decade to keep the promise alive, and to serve Uganda’s oil and gas sector, advancing EACOP, securing key agreements, and supporting the journey to First Oil. 🇺🇬

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

Who is putting @AnitahAmong on pressure to justify her ambitions and have them capped at No.3 position? Incase of a state of emergency beyond 6 months, a Speaker of Parliament would become the Ag President. Is she fit for the job? 🤔

[Chris Obore @ChrisObore1]

Take the kiosk. Return her merchandise. Law enforcement should not be theft. The town clerk of this area must act and return the merchandise to this lady.

[Gideon Nova Kwikiriza @KwikirizaNova]

If anyone knows which school this is, we need to identify this girl. Even if we paid for a boda boda for a year. Maybe after that one year, the family will have found a solution or we could still renew her boda offer.

[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

UPDATE – A delegation of Arsenal Football Club legends, led by Thierry Henry and Nwankwo Kanu, is set to visit Uganda. The announcement was made by Nabirye Barbara, Special Presidential Assistant on Special Duties and chairperson of Arsenal fans in Uganda.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“You can’t say there is no international law except for you. But for us it's only our morality.”

@ElBaradei, former director general of the IAEA, explains the “lack of logic” in Israel–a nuclear-armed state–waging war on Iran in the name of preventing nuclear weapons.

[Africa First @AfricaFirsts]

Angola 🇦🇴 has the second cheapest fuel price in Africa and the 4th cheapest in the world.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Everybody has a different way of doing things🙂

[Aminah Zawedde @azawedde]

Ramadhan Kareem 🌙
To my Muslim colleagues and friends, I wish you a peaceful and fulfilling month of faith, reflection, and renewed strength. May this season bring blessings to your homes and inspire us all to serve with compassion and purpose.

#RamadanKareem

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Martha Karua: Kenya needs a series of one-term Presidents for the next 4 elections.

"We must entrench the culture that leadership is transient and that none of us will ever finish building this country. You do your best during your 5 years and leave it for the next."

#FixingTheNationNTV @NationFmKE @EricLatiff @MariamBishar @OfficialJMbugua

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The Bondi terror attack hero recovering in hospital. Get well soon, Ahmed. 👍