In today’s NV paper, Uganda& Germany’s plans for a new two-year cooperation framework take centre stage, highlighting deeper economic ties, investment opportunities& stronger support for investors Get yourself a copy! @SigridSomers @edthnaka @ShieldInvestors #EmpoweringInvestors

Kai Havertz is the best on earth. 🎶

I went to see a friend's child in hospital yesterday. He is so small but now in ICU it breaks my heart. The neighbour reversed and did not see him. I sat with them for a while and they told me how it happened. It was ordinary and that is the part I cannot get out of my head. He wasn't speeding. He wasn't drunk. He wasn't on the phone either. The man reversed the way all of us reverse, out of a compound he has driven out of a thousand times and a child who had been somewhere else a moment earlier was suddenly behind him. He is not a careless man and he is not just a neighbour. He is a close family friend and he is so broken about it. So when i got home, i decided to check what research actually says, because I wanted to understand how this happens, as it is not first time am hearing about a similar incident. In more than 7 out of 10 of these cases, the driver is a parent or a close relative. Not a stranger. Not someone reckless. Someone who actually loves the child. And most people don't know that the space behind your car is far bigger than any of us think. It is not a metre or two. Behind an ordinary car runs about 20 to 30 feet. Behind a pickup it can reach 50. It is wider than the car itself and the shorter you are, the bigger it gets. A small child standing anywhere inside that space is completely invisible. You will check both mirrors, turn and look over your shoulder, see nothing at all and be entirely right that you saw nothing. The children this happens to most are around one year old. The age that has just learned to walk and follows the people it loves without saying a word. Bigger cars like SUVs make it worse which is most of what sits in our compounds. So this is what I am doing from now on and what I am asking you to do. Get out and walk to the back of the car before you reverse. Every time. Not a glance from your seat. An actual walk, just 10 seconds. Hoot once before you move. Reverse at walking pace with your window down, because your ears will sometimes catch what your eyes cannot. Keep balls, bikes and toys out of the parking area completely. A child running after a ball behind a car is how most of these start. And treat the reverse camera as a helper, never as your eyes. It has blind spots of its own and it shows you nothing the moment it is wet or dirty. I always tweet about cars here but none of this matters as much as this. Actually, the most careful driving of your life should happen inside your own gate. Send this to every person who drives in your home. Today, not later...

I plan to travel to Fort Portal to attend King Oyo's burial. I'll shoot a video capturing the mood and cultural and tourist sites. As with other upcountry videos, I'm crowdfunding. The goal is to give the public co-ownership of it. Just 5,000shs to 0700-839639. Thank you!

I extend my sincere condolences to the people of Uganda's Tooro Kingdom on the passing of His Majesty the Omukama of Tooro, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. Five years ago, I had the honor of meeting King Oyo and presenting him with a key to the City of Dallas as a symbol of our friendship. King Oyo impressed me as a dignified and respected leader, and he will be missed. My prayers are with his family, the Tooro people, and the nation of Uganda during this time of mourning.

A video showing how our comrade Kaija Doreen was abducted. You can imagine all these vehicles, armed men (some of them in civilian clothes) coming to pick up a harmless young woman whose only weapon is her voice and her conviction that Uganda deserves better. #FreeDoreeenKaija #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

…and the Country Tour begins… Jinja City… this Friday…we dede 💪🏾

Dear @PoliceUg these boys have knocked someone on lugogo, pulled a gun on them and then run away!

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The State prosecutors argued, and the Chief Magistrate Basemera Sarah Anne agreed, that Luzira prison was fit for him. The State’s own hospital disagrees. On the Court’s own order, Mulago National Referral Hospital examined @EriasLukwago_ on 25 June 2026. A team of five specialists. A comprehensive report to the Chief Magistrate. Their verdict? Hon. Erias Lukwago suffers residual nerve damage from spinal surgery, with further disc disease. A post-COVID lung condition that needs a well-ventilated environment. Irreversible ENT conditions requiring ongoing specialist care. Reflux disease and a hiatus hernia to be managed by diet and prescribed medicine. The Mulago National Referral Hospital specialists recommend that Hon. Erias Lukwago must be reviewed by his spinal surgeons — in India. Uganda could not even repeat his MRI scan; his implant may not be compatible with the machines available here. Mulago National Referral Hospital says he needs specialist review abroad. A prison cell cannot give him that. A remand ward would deny him the appropriate medical treatment he urgently needs. Hon. Erias Lukwago has been charged, not convicted, of any offense. The law presumes him innocent. The law entitles him to ask for bail. He has a right to health, life and dignity. It is the duty of the Court to protect these fundamental human rights and freedoms. A man whom our finest doctors say needs care beyond our borders is being held in a place that cannot provide even an MRI. This is inhumane, absurd and outrageous. This is about a human life, a medical fact, and a simple question of conscience. Now is the time for everyone to act fast to save the life of Hon. Erias Lukwago. #FreeLukwago #RuleOfLaw #BailIsARight #Uganda #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

A few days from now, it will be three months since Christopher Goddy, a comrade and musician better known as 'King Zale,' was abducted from Kamokya. His family is very distressed, having looked for him everywhere without a trace. As usual, the regime whose men abducted King Zale remains completely silent about his whereabouts – the same silence it has maintained about all other comrades who have been missing for several years now! We continue demanding for his immediate release from illegal detention and an end to this impunity!

General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni likely incapacitated from serving as President of Uganda on account of advanced age has been toppled by his infant son. I cannot remember his name. The infant tyrant has embarked on abrogating all freedoms and liberties entrenched in the post revolution Constitution. Our sympathies to the People of Uganda.

#Uganda Tomorrow.. The world will be watching... how the security services react to @HEBobiwine and his supporters.. Atte don’t score ‘own goals’ and blame the media etc...

The media is not an enemy you can bazooka... Bullying, threatening, cajoling etc... won't fly either... It erodes sympathy.

Our prayer is that you come back safe and alive, for we know you will tell your story eloquently and boldly. You have never failed to stand for the things you believe in. Your contribution to the democratization of our country, your unrelenting pursuit of the rights of women, and the girl child will not be diminished by the cowardly acts of your detractors. Your name is indelibly inked in history and our hearts in ways that your abusers can only envy and therefore seek to destroy you. They may disappear you, but never your ideas. Theirs is brute hollow and backward force. Those who ingratiate themselves with your abusers know in the deep recesses of their thoughts and hearts, too well, that you have done nothing wrong.

Dear Maama Miria Matembe, I stand with you in this dark and painful moment. The harassment you and other women are facing from a childish coward masquerading as a general does not diminish your courage or dignity, it only exposes his weakness and moral bankruptcy. The world is watching, and one day he will be held to account for his atrocities against the people of Uganda. God be with you Maama.

Are you okay we talk about this? Is it true or the case is still under investigations? Tubileke