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10 July 1960.
Kampala, Uganda.
The radio crackled with news from Congo.
Independent for barely days, the new nation was already burning.
The first trucks arrived carrying Belgian refugees, women with dusty children, frightened eyes.
At Makerere, young Ugandan nationalists watched in silence.
The Congo Mirror: Uganda's Lesson in Independence - 1960
They had been celebrating Patrice Lumumba's rise, passing around mimeographed copies of his speeches like sacred texts.
In Makerere's dining halls, in the backrooms of Asian shops, the young men of the Uganda National Congress had shouted about independence as though it were their birthright.
Then the trucks came.
Belgian families, exhausted and displaced, were served posho by nurses at hastily prepared refugee centres.
It was the first time many of those young Ugandans had seen white people as refugees, not masters.
The reversal shook something deep.
The elders pointed to Congo as proof that Uganda was not ready.
"You see what happens when power comes too fast?" they warned.
They had watched the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, the racial violence elsewhere.
Their caution was born of experience.
But the young nationalists drew a different lesson.
Sitting with his comrades at sunset, one of them, a young man from Gulu, whispered what many were thinking:
"We must learn from this."
Lumumba's vision had drowned in vengeance and tribal rivalry within days of independence.
The mutiny of the Force Publique, the Belgian intervention, the secession of Katanga, it had all unfolded with terrifying speed.
The lesson was not that freedom should wait.
The lesson was that freedom without institutions was a house of cards.
The images from those July days stayed with them: families stopped at roadblocks, others fleeing across Lake Albert in dugout canoes.
Uganda's government set up refugee beds; Kenya offered help.
But what lingered was the question that followed every young nationalist into the years ahead:
When Uganda's turn came, would they be any different?
The Congo was a mirror, and what those young men saw in it was their own potential for both triumph and disaster.
They would need institutions, not just heroes.
They would need a nation, not just a flag.
What does it mean when a generation of young nationalists, burning with hope, watches a neighbouring revolution consume itself within days, and resolves, in the silence of that witnessing, to build something different?
The Congo crisis of July 1960 was Uganda's unspoken teacher.
The refugees came.
The young men watched.
The lesson was absorbed not in speeches but in the quiet understanding that independence without preparation was a catastrophe waiting to happen.
They would remember those dusty trucks and frightened children.
They would remember Lumumba's rise and fall.
And they would try, in the years ahead, to build a Uganda that would not break.
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💢🔴100 OEUVRES MAJEURES DU PRÉSIDENT @FATSHI13🇨🇩🔴💢
I. CONSTRUCTION DES UNIVERSITÉS & ÉCOLES
1. Université de Mbuji-Mayi
2. Université de Bunia
3. Université de Kananga
4. Université de Kolwezi
5. Rénovation de l’UNIKIN
6. Rénovation et extension de l'UPN
7. Rénovation et extension de l’INBTP
8. Plus de 600 écoles construites par le PDL-145T
9. Écoles et centres professionnels construit par le Service National.
10. Centre de formation de Maluku
II. HÔPITAUX ET CENTRES DE SANTÉ
11. Hôpital Général Mama Yemo (Kinshasa)
12. Rénovation Hôpital de Référence Camp Kokolo
13. Rénovation Hôpital de Référence Camp Tshatshi
14. Hôpital Général de Kintambo
15. Rénovation Hôpital Général Sendwe
16. Hôpital CNSS (Lubumbashi)
17. Hôpital de la Muya (Mbuji-Mayi)
18. Hôpital Mwangeji (Kolwezi)
19. 357 centres de santé livrés (PDL-145T)
20. Modernisation de plusieurs hôpitaux provinciaux (Ituri, Haut-Uélé, Kasaï, Kongo-Central)
III. SPORTS, CULTURE & LOISIRS
21. Stade des Martyrs (rénové)
22. Stade Kibassa Maliba (Lubumbashi, rénové)
23. Stade Tata Raphaël (Rénovation)
24. Stade Sainte-Thérèse de Ndjili
25. Stade de foot et de basket UPN
26. Stade UNIKIN
27. Stade Lumumba (Matadi)
28. Arena de Kinshasa (palais omnisports)
29. Modernisation site de la FIKIN
30. Musée National de la RDC
31. Maison de l’Entrepreneuriat
32. Centre Culturel pour l’Afrique Centrale
33. Centre Financier de Kinshasa
34. Village des Congrès de Kolwezi.
IV. CONSTRUCTION AÉROPORTS ET PORTS
35. Aéroport de Kisangani (livré)
36. Aéroport de Kolwezi (livré)
37. Aéroport de Mbuji-Mayi
38. Aéroport de Kananga
39. Aéroport de Bunia
40. Aéroport de Boende
41. Aéroport de Ndjili
42. Aéroport de Lubumbashi (travaux d’extension)
43. Port en eau profonde de Banana
44. Modernisation du Port de Matadi
45. Fermeture des ports illégaux.
V. ENTREPRISES PUBLIQUES
46. Nouveau siège de l’IGF
47. Siège rénové de la CENAREF
48. Rénovation et modernisation de la SNCC
49. Réévaluation des actifs de la Gécamines (+3 milliards $ récupérés)
50. Rénovation de l’ONATRA
51. Réhabilitation du Service National
52. Usine de traitement d’eau de Lemba-Imbu
53. Usine de traitement d’eau de Binza-Ozone
54. Centrale hydroélectrique de Busanga (Lualaba)
55. Sous-station électrique de Samukinda (Lualaba)
56. Centrale solaire de Menkao
57. Assemblée Provinciale de Lubumbashi
58. Usine de production du Zinc KICO (Kipushi)
59. Marché central de Kinshasa
60. Marché moderne de Tshikapa
61. Prison centrale de Makala (extension)
62. Nouveaux bâtiments administratifs et salle polyvalente du Gouvernorat du Lualaba
VI. RECORDS FINANCIERS
63. Budget national passé de 4 mds $ à 20 milliards $
64. Réserves de change passées de 900 millions $ à 7 milliards $
65. Stabilisation du cadre macroéconomique
66. Appréciation du Franc congolais
67. Baisse des prix sur le marché
68. Gratuité de l’enseignement primaire
69. Gratuité de la maternité dans 13 provinces
70. Multiplication par 10 des fonctionnaires et augmentation de leurs salaires
71. Baisse prix du passeport: 75$
72. Amélioration du climat des affaires.
VII. ROUTES & PONTS
73. Rocades Sud-Est et Sud-Ouest (63 km)
74. Route Nzolana (UPN–Binza)
75. Route Kasumbalesa-Mokambo-Sakania 150km
76. Route Kasomeno-Mwenda
77. Route Beni-Komanda-Kisangani
78. Route Kasindi-Beni
79. Route Beni-Butembo
80. Route Kalamba-Mbuji-Kananga-Mbuji-Mayi
81. Route Kolwezi-Solwezi
82. Route Mwene-Ditu-Mbuji-Mayi
83. Route Mwene-Ditu-Kanyama
84. Route Kinshasa-Batshamba
85. Route Bandundu-Bagata
86. Rocade de Kisangani
87. Pont Nyemba (Tanganyika, 140 m)
88. Pont Lubudi (Kinshasa, 158m)
89. Pont Lowa
90. Pont Lubuya (Kisangani, 30m)
91. Pont Lubunga (Kisangani, 15m)
92. Pont Mwanza-Ngoma (Kasaï C, 37m)
93. Pont Lemba-Matete
94. Pont Luilu (Lomami, 60m)
95. Pont Kalebuka (L'shi, 22m)
96. Pont Fatshi Béton (Likasi, 63m)
97. Pont Chalwe (Kasenga-Zambie, 345m
98. Pont Tshidivuila (Mwene-Ditu, 201m)
99. Pont Ludi (Kolwezi, 35m)
100. Pont Bomukandi (Watsa, 80m).
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#Chine⚽️: début à Pékin de la compétition test de robots footballeurs humanoïdes dans le cadre des Humanoid Robot Games. 😂🤦♂️
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The 2025 Conclave: All the cardinal electors from A to Z. Let's pray for them.
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Don't stay silent in the face of the killings happening in the DRC. your Silence proves your complicity.
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#UPDATE: "𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗗. Her father confirms they are Rwandans' father of Joy Rugaruza
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🐐 Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s stats in Knock Out stage games at the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros and Copa América;
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi
👕 29 games
⚽️ 11 goals
🎯 17 assists
🥅 28 goal contributions
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo
👕 20 games
⚽️ 3 goals
🎯 2 assists
🥅 5 goal contributions
#Messi𓃵|#CR7𓃵|#FIFAWorldCup
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How the various Cities in the world reacted to Lionel Messi's World cup Triumph.
Most influential athlete of all time 🐐
A massive thread 🧵
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"Cristiano was a monster and the father of the monster is Messi."
3 Ballon d'Or
3 FIFA Best
1 Olympic gold medal
5 Golden Boot/Shoe
5 League titles
4 League MVP
2 Major tournament titles
4 Major tournament MVP
3 Domestic cups
That's the trophy gap between Messi and Ronaldo.
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Never forget that Rodri did not lose a single Man City game in 474 days 🥶😮💨





























