Uganda’s 2026 Presidential Election Process is one we have witnessed before. A process captured by state infrastructure to muffle dissent. What is the military doing in politics - capturing the electoral process forcefully guarding presidential candidates during the campaigns? #WomenForPresidency

Ladies, gentlemen, ALL Ugandans in the country and in the diaspora, my name is Yvonne Mpambara and I am for Presidency of the Republic of Uganda 2026 - 2031. Dear Ugandans, we have to #ShiftThePower and challenge Uganda’s Political Culture & end this old game of politics. #MadamPresident2026

As we push with the @AfricaUnion.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy for reparations, Africa’s past must be honored, its injustices acknowledged and its future reclaimed. We join hands for #AfricaDay2025 under #Agenda2063 as our collective blueprint for a prosperous, self reliant and inclusive continent.

#DRC: Former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon (LGD, centre-left) was sentenced to ten years' hard labor after being convicted of embezzling ~ $250 million USD from a failed agricultural project.

"We had been tortured, and we were told to strip naked" ~ Boniface Mwangi opens up about his harrowing ordeal with Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire after their detention by Tanzanian authorities   Full story: thekenyatimes.com/393k

In honor of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, the PUSH Campaign is bringing together allies and partners for a virtual event to highlight the critical role that midwives play in women’s health. 📆 28 May 🕐 15:00-16:00 CET RSVP: internationalmidwives-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Threatening universities. Attacking judges. Bullying law firms. Clamping down on free speech. If it looks like it, talks like it, and acts like it, it is moving toward authoritarianism.

Ugandan lawyer Agatha Atuhaire was dumped at the Uganda-#Tanzania border by Tanzanian police after four days of being unjustly detained and allegedly tortured. Atuhaire was detained in Dar es Salaam after trying to attend the treason hearing of Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu.

The chilling details of Agather Atuhaire’s treatment at the hands of Tanzanian security agents are coming to light (tw torture). (H/y @aljazeera.com for the graphic).

You are announced as the first in the room, as shattering barriers, as cracking ceilings, as shaking foundations, as unsettling earth. You are earthquake and gale, hurricane and tornado. A weather event. A natural disaster. A catastrophe.The force that remakes the room. You smile at the lie.-Keguro

The fact that Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the cusp of war yet again is a reminder that eventually war can become so seeded in the logic of a state that it becomes its raison d’être. A cabal of old men who have become so rooted in warfare that they cannot even comprehend peace.

Join us next week for the launch of Library of perspectives. Register: us06web.zoom.us/j/8262515138...

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

Hamas says Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt humanitarian aid into Gaza is “cheap blackmail” and a “coup” against the ceasefire deal. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc

One of my favourite public menopause moments was a couple of yrs ago at a restaurant w/a fireplace. A woman came in with a friend and said loudly something like "Let's not sit near the fireplace. My hot flashes are hot enough." Just like that. Yes. Thank you www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-end-...

Today's quick update [Feb 24]: - RSF shelling reported in Elobeid, North Kordofan. - RSF shoot down SAF aircraft reportedly carrying military personnel over Nyala, South Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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The new changes to Sudan's constitutional document are so predictable and so, so terrifying. #KeepEyesOnSudan sudantribune.com/article297812/

DID YOU KNOW: Veterans are included in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

For the first time since 2002, Israeli tanks have been deployed to the northern occupied West Bank as the Israeli government ordered the military to prepare for an “extended stay” in refugee camps there. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim says Israel postponing the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners exposes “the entire agreement to grave danger” and has called on US mediators to pressure Israel “to implement the agreement.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m3v9y3

One of the greatest gifts of the transition known as menopause is shamelessness. I am not known as one easily shamed nor is modesty one of my virtues. Still, I gasp at the heights of audacity that I like to think come monthly in lieu of my long gone menstrual cycle.

What we are reading: Facing the Aid Freeze: What We Must Do Now and Tomorrow by Dzikamai Bere theciviclens.org/facingaidfre... #ShiftThePower

I wrote before the 2024 election. Reposting because it is stunning to see anyone in the U.S. (rightfully) rage against one president's proposed ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (Trump) unless they also rage at his predecessor's genocide of Palestinians (Biden) www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear...

South African soldiers in DRC: “This was a suicide mission”

BREAKING: Israel will face diplomatic and economic sanctions from a league of countries Nine nations have unveiled a raft of measures to punish the country for its conduct in Palestine

How are you doing? This month has been rough

Today’s quick update [Jan 28]: - RSF shelling continues in Elfashir, as well as SAF airstrikes. - Clashes between SAF and RSF continue in Khartoum, with SAF gaining control of more areas in Bahri. #KeepEyesOnSudan

The Sudan Solidarity Collective, has with your generous support raised over $500,000 for emergency response rooms and other grassroots groups across the country from Khartoum to Darfur to the Nuba Mountains to Kassala. Pls consider becoming a monthly donor at sudansolidarity.com.

There is a weird thing in the U.S. where a Democratic President has no power to do anything ever, while a Republican president has the power to do everything and change everything within the first 5 days of being in power.

I am genuinely getting tired of it! Zero accountability 🚮

It hasn’t rained in 200 years in the Dead Vlei, which is nestled in a valley between the dunes in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park, and is considered the world's oldest desert.

‘Five babies in incubator’ Human Rights Watch finds Israel has violated the rights of pregnant women and girls in Gaza, with no end in sight.

“The long-run goal is, I think, the same for every human being, that politically he or she may be allowed to live free from fear, insecurity, terror, and oppression, free also from the possibility of exercising unequal or unjust domination over others.”- Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine

Over four dozen Tanzanian soldiers reportedly trapped near Goma’s airport, calling for urgent rescue and evacuation as M23 rebels solidify their control of the city. They are holed up in a storage facility containing minerals and supplies, unable to escape due to the heavy presence of M23 forces.

"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Eastern DRC, both the land and the people have got to be exhausted of the whole world's insistence that their death, pain, and extraction are essential for everyone’s well-being but the people of the land. The country has all of us complicit 😭 From African looters like Rwanda and Uganda to Asia, US

Today's quick update [Jan 20]: - RSF attack on Bashagra villages in Jezira State; preliminary reports indicate 35 people killed & major violations committed by RSF, including scarring faces and cutting off fingers. #KeepEyesOnSudan

“Civil disobedience … was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy,” the author and activist Howard Zinn. “The greatest danger … was civil obedience.”

Make your mind too free for fascism to chain your imagination. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her 1974 anarchist utopian science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed

We asked the organisations we fund what the impact of a new Trump presidency will be on their work on #abortion: “Abortion stigma will increase. The government will strengthen their arguments citing that America, a developed country, is also saying no to abortion.” saafund.org/us-politics-...

Gaza ceasefire: Displaced Palestinians return to devastated homes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-ceasefire-displaced-palestinians-return-devastated-homes

Today and in the coming days, remember

Mauritius imposes restrictions on water use as reservoirs dry up

What is a “strong” woman? We must disentangle strength from suffering. FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 70 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...

Biden, Blinken, et al armed, funded, facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza www.propublica.org/article/bide...

I will never understand how the Dems did not make a bigger deal of Trump’s COVID failures.

Palestinian human rights defender Ihab Fisal killed in an Israeli airstrike after the ceasefire was announced. Relentless.

Israel has killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire announcement.