Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 10 2021
Uganda is still reeling from the aftermath of the January election, and how Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and his National Unity Party (NUP) upended the politics of President Yoweri Museveni’s era.
It has ended in easily the largest crackdown outside a war zone Uganda has ever seen, and the use of abductions and kidnapping of suspected agitators on a scale last witnessed during the days of Field Marshal Idi Amin.
President Museveni has said, and now written, that the people abducted were picked up to be interrogated about plans to cause widespread insecurity, and national mayhem.
Taarifa Rwanda
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Epimaque Ngashotsi aged 101 is one of the few living distinguished Rwandans that have a remarkable contribution to Rwanda’s liberation and the defeat of the Nazi regime in Germany
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The 2-meter-tall World War II veteran and
Inyenzi fighter with an acute memory, now lives a humble life with his two granddaughters in remote Kamamesa village in Gatsibo district.
“I was born in 1920 at Gahini village part of present day Kayonza district,” Nyagashotsi told
Taarifa from the comfort of his home on a Sunday afternoon.
Growing up through an entire century, Nyagashotsi says that his main food has been beans, potatoes, sorghum bread and large amounts of milk.
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One of the most globally popular photographs depicting the brutal – and deadly – early enforcement of Covid-19 lockdowns in Africa, was that famous one by AFP showing a soldier (or was it LDU) beating female vendors in Kampala. Those kill-them-to-save-them-Covid early days partly explain the brutality against President Yoweri Museveni’s Opposition rivals in January’s election and their supporters have faced in recent weeks. And, in turn, it is traceable to the late 1980s and 1990s when HIV-Aids ravaged Uganda, and at time there were even references to the country as the “Aids epicentre”. It also offers some reason why we should be hopeful.