Refugee/Human Rights ~ Interpreter/Translator ~ Local Integration Volunteer ~ Paralegal ~ Politics ~Oxford RSC Fellow 21 ~ MH First Aider #ForcedMigrant
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Amudu Salongo retweeted
A complete mockery of 'justice.' Four years in prison for a slogan: 'No Reforms, No Elections.'
This is @SuluhuSamia's #Tanzania: exclude your rivals, win 98%, kill 500+ protesters, then jail your main challenger on a fabricated charge. #FreeTunduLissu
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Amudu Salongo retweeted
In Bombo we screened "The Human Cost of Garbage" issues like blocked trenches, sewage dumping & 5k fees were raised. Residents proposed recycling market waste into fertilizer & fundraising for cleanup tools. The mayor pledged tractors to clear dumpsites. #RefugeeLawProject
Amudu Salongo retweeted
Highlights from the United States Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs 2026 Investment Climate Statements: Uganda
-Security forces arrest opposition supporters and hold them in detention long past the constitutionally mandated limit. Reports of torture allegedly perpetrated by elements within the official security forces persist. Security services routinely use excessive force to stop peaceful protests and demonstrations.
-An uncertain political environment increases risk to foreign businesses and investors. Uganda has never experienced a peaceful political transition. In the January 2026 elections, President Museveni won a seventh term with 72 percent of the vote amid reports of political violence and restrictions on democratic institutions. Speculation about the 2031 elections and the perceived absence of a succession plan adds to political uncertainty.
-Endemic corruption remains a serious problem and a major obstacle to investment. While anti-corruption laws extend to family members of officials and political parties, in practice, many well-connected individuals enjoy de facto immunity for corrupt acts and are rarely prosecuted in court.
state.gov/reports/2026-inves…
Amudu Salongo retweeted
Former DRC President #Kabila's interview below is an example of how one man's desire for power and wealth can be so great that the millions of Congolese who could die as a result of "his" revolution are viewed as disposable.
Former President Kabila poses the question, "Does the Congo need an #election or a #revolution?" An election is when the people freely choose their leaders. A revolution, especially one aimed at a democratically elected government, is a coup that overturns the will of the people.
Rwanda's @PaulKagame and Kabila have chosen armed conflict and made it clear that the right of the Congolese people to freely elect their president, and the potential deaths of millions, are secondary to their desire for power and access to the DRC's vast natural resource wealth.
@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SenateForeign @SFRCdems @RepJames @RepSaraJacobs @SecRubio @StateDept @DeputySecState @AsstSecStateAF @PressSec @CNN @BBCAfrica @AP @ReutersAfrica @DeptofWar
"Does the Congo need an Election or a Revolution!"
EXCLUSIVE Interview with the #FRN President JOSEPH KABILA, former president of DRC, conducted via @Conspiracygl with @TEDDYMAZINA & @CoulibalyBojana, on October 23, 2026.
Full interview at 7pm today via CTGL YouTube channel.
Amudu Salongo retweeted
The difference between those who have everything and those with nothing in this world is heartbreaking 💔
Source: ferdychildrenfoundation1 on IG / Writer: Ian
Amudu Salongo retweeted
Activist @AloikinOpoloje speaks about her abduction. How did it happen? What transpired inside the drone? How did she end up at CPS and what we can do as citizens to reclaim our freedom.
Watch the full conversation on youtu.be/fGhWNKXdqIk
Amudu Salongo retweeted
While in the packed court for Praise Aloikin’s Bail hearing, I reflected on the time we waste as a country over useless things. For a case of using a SIM card that belongs to her mother (or insulting someone very important), we’ve wasted time and resources of so many people that would otherwise be spent on productive things. Let’s look at a few:
1. The time and resources wasted by soldiers tracking her before they abducted her.
2. The state resources wasted by police officers etc discussing and opening up a flimsy case against her.
3. The time of court wasted attending to her bogus case instead of attending to the huge backlog of sensible cases.
4. The Prisons resources wasted on holding her up and adding to the congestion there for over two weeks.
5. The valuable time of Ugandans wasted in campaigns for Praise’s freedom.
6. The entire day spent seated at court today by over 50 people, state prosecutors, defence lawyers etc who would have been doing productive work elsewhere.
7. The wasted court resources (tax payers’ money) on electricity, files, ware and tear.
If every time an offended important person will have to resort to this, how much more tax payers’ money and productive time shall we waste!!! Do we care about the cost that comes with this pettiness?
This is just one case, but try to aggregate the cost of all the bogus cases preoccupying the public and courts now. We can no longer sustain debate on serious issues of national development without being disrupted by news of more kidnaps or torture victims. Besides, many well meaning resourceful people are too scared to be critical. Pettiness and opportunistic praise singing have consumed the space for ideas. Many intelligent people are going quiet as the environment has become more conducive for loud chorusing stupidity and calculations for personal gain. Can a country grow under such conditions?
Amudu Salongo retweeted
#Uganda
"Ugandans have discovered that, increasingly, there is nowhere to hide. Civic life here is defined by thickening webs of state surveillance built with foreign help. ... Technology has created an intrusive eye that never blinks."
nytimes.com/2026/10/08/opini… @Megankstack
Amudu Salongo retweeted
When Sam Mugumya was abducted on August 26, 2025 in Mbarara district, his lawyers immediately filed a habeas corpus application. On September 5, 2025, Judge Collins Acellam granted the application, and an order was issued directing the Respondents (CDF, DIS & AG) to produce Mugumya within 7 days before a competent court. The Respondents refused to produce Mugumya denying having him in his custody and the case was dismissed in December 2025.
On October 13, 2025, @AgoraCFR transmitted the case of Sam Mugumya to the United Nations (UN)Working Group on Enforced Disappearances. On March 6, 2026, the Working Group wrote to Agora informing them that the case of Mugumya had been considered and transmitted to the Government of Uganda, on October 13, 2025, under its urgent action procedure. The WG hadn’t heard from the Ug Gov’t by May 2026 when it sat again and in June sent another reminder to the Gov’t
In August 2026, when a video of a visibly tortured Mugumya surfaced online, his lawyers filedanother habeas corpus application. It is yet to be heard by court and @AgoraCFR shared the video with the WG and the @UNHumanRights
If even with the recent admission from CDF Muhoozi Kainerugaba that he illegally has Sam Mugumya these institutions don’t act, it will be confirmation that we are completely on our own at the mercy of inhuman criminals. #FreeSamMugumya #SaveSamMugumya
Amudu Salongo retweeted
If Uganda’s CDF @mkainerugaba is publicly admitting that he personally holds Sam Mugumya—and threatening to execute him—this is no longer a question of where Mugumya is.
It is a direct admission of state custody and a threat to his life.
Mugumya must be produced before a court, given immediate access to lawyers, family and independent doctors, and protected from torture or execution.
A military detention facility is not above the law.
@WGEID @AmnestyEARO @SFRCdems @SenateForeign @StateDept @StateDRL @IntlCrimCourt
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Amudu Salongo retweeted
We produced this spoken word piece following electoral violence in the national election and particularly at @MuwangaMKivumbi’s home and @GorrethNamugga in Sembabule including the abductions that followed.
It turns out to be a tale of today, as it did then.
#FreeAloikinPraise
This is time that the international community gives time to the rise in #HumanRightsViolations happening recently in Uganda.
There is no possibility that everyone can sit and keep quiet when human lives keep perishing at the hands of a tyrant
.@amnistia .@UNHumanRights
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Amudu Salongo retweeted
Ouganda: la militante Praise Aloikin emprisonnée après avoir qualifié le fils du président de «chou»
➡️ go.rfi.fr/YBz
Amudu Salongo retweeted
Parliament gives govt two weeks to account for Mugumya, other missing persons
Details👇
monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…
Amudu Salongo retweeted
🇦🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 A RUSSIAN AND A UKRAINIAN SAVED THE DAY
After much confusion, it turns out a Ukrainian and a Russian pilot were on board the FlyDubai plane.
Both took control of the plane and landed it after the second pilot attacked the captain.
Both are pilots who were flying as regular passengers in civilian clothes. After the incident, they replaced the crew in the cockpit and landed the plane.
Russians and Ukrainians work together… a much better end to this story!