RDC: Ministere de l’Interieur Securite Decentralisation et Affaires Coutumieres – Communique Officiel (05.04.2025)

RDC: Twirwaneho – Alerte: attaques imminentes ciblant les villages Banyamulenge de Bibokoboko par les MAI-MAI (Wazalendo) appuyes par les FARDC (05.04.2025)

RDC: Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC ) – Communique Officiel (05.04.2025)

Dr. Kizza Besigye returned to Nakawa Court [after being behind bars for 135 days on the 4th April 2025 without a proper trial or due process]

“Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court has adjourned the hearing of a case involving Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused, Hajj Obeid Lutale, to April 30, 2025, at 10: 00 AM. The case revolves around the State’s application seeking authorization to access and extract data from their mobile phones as part of ongoing investigations” (NBS Television, 04.04.2025).

The veteran opposition leader and activist, Dr. Kizza Besigye’s prolonged treason case continues, as the courts are adjourning the case and pending further investigation into the matter. Meanwhile the man is awaiting his return to freedom and liberty. That won’t come anytime soon.

This man has now waited since 20th November 2024 and are destined to return to Court again on the 30th April 2025. By this action alone, the state is keeping him captive for a long period without any changing in the process or the needs to release evidence, proof or even have a witness of the alleged crimes committed by the civilian. Alas, this is just a ploy to keep him behind bars.

Besigye will go from 135 days to 161 days of incarceration would a sentence or proof of the charges pinned on him. That is just telling of how insincere and how the state delivers injustice towards its dissidents. This is the message it sends and what it is willing to do. They are criminalizing and penalizing Besigye without proving any of it. Secondly, there is no proof or evidence of the criminal conspiracy and the supposed treasonous actions. Therefore, we know this is an political action and done for another purpose of the state.

We shouldn’t be hopeful that is over any time soon. No, the state will continue to target him and keep him detained. That’s what it does, and it is proud of it too. They are cheering each other on for doing this. Therefore, the reality is grim, and we know this is how the state plays this one out. It is their way of saying the inevitable and spreading the narrative that anyone who dares to challenge the state will eventually taste the punishing hand of the government. Peace.

The PPF is only there to snatch voters from the NUP

“A group led by Hajj Musa Misango, Spartan Mukagyi, and Robert Rutaro has unveiled People Power Front (PPF) as a new political party in Kampala, claiming to have registered it in August 2024” (Nexus Media, 03.04.2025).

There isn’t anything good in the People Power Front (PPF) and the ones behind it. They are just appearing and being vocal ahead of the General Election. Just like all the Youthful Organizations and Pressure Groups appearing from within the National Resistance Movement (NRM). There will appear parties and others who are going to copy or act like the main opposition party. Heck, even independents or even NRM rebels supposed to challenge the NRM as well.

Regardless, the timing and the moment they launch it just shows the game they are playing. This is fishing for relevancy and wanting to become big shots overnight. These aren’t there to build or become a danger to the NRM. The NRM and the Electoral Commission wouldn’t allow that. Because the EC and such works directly for the government and the ruling regime. Therefore, the PPF is there to tarnish and distort the National Unity Platform (NUP).

Not like the NUP owns the red berets or the hand movement, but this is straight up copying it. They are just taking NUP regalia and there should be setbacks on it. We know the NRM made themselves Yellow Berets and the late Tamale Mirundi wore it with pride.

The gameplan is very easy to see, it isn’t even hidden in plain sight. They aren’t even trying or being clever. They are just straight up copying and making it visible. The PPF aren’t there to be a challenger or be a voice of reason. No, it is only there to destroy and shade with the NUP. That’s it and this is their gig.

We can all see the creation is to disenfranchise the NUP ahead of the 2026. This is to capture the independent leaning voters and not the hardliners. No, the PPF is to give the idea and make them a choice instead of NUP. There is no other reason for why they are made like this and giving itself this name. It is a front and a organization built on a false premise, but still it is here. Peace.

Opinion: Trump’s launching a new Great Depression [Happy Liberation Day!]

“Everybody sit back, take a deep breath. Don’t immediately retaliate. Because if you retaliate, there will be an escalation” – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (03.04.2025).

The recent “liberation day” and putting new tariffs on as good as every nation from the United States of America. That means the U.S. Government is adding taxes and fees on every import from the world entering into the U.S. market. The Trump Administration will hurt the economy and the prices will rise, as these tariffs will hurt the financial market and businesses that are working with imports.

The whole stockpiles and the logistical chains of industries or supply-lines aren’t prepared for this. Neither is the industries, or the businesses prepared for the tariffs. That cost and expenses put on them will be on the consumer, i.e. the citizens.

President Donald J. Trump are directly hurting the state, causing a rising inflation and ensure a Great Depression. This here will be more hurting than what Hoover did with the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. It is like the lessons of 1930s and the troubling times will haunt the Republic yet again.

“I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.  That threat has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States in the domestic economic policies of key trading partners and structural imbalances in the global trading system.  I hereby declare a national emergency with respect to this threat” (Donald J. Trump – ‘Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits’ 02.04.2025).

He has now created a national emergency out of thin air and believes he can do this. This President is destroying his economy, the financial markets and the fragile businesses, which are only stronger because of steady financial policies and securing markets for trade. Now the U.S. will hurt everyone else and think they will not retaliate. However, that will happen and rightfully so. Because, who in their right mind allows one nation to bully everyone else?

The Canadians and others will answer the U.S., and other nations will follow suit. They will target American businesses and there will be an open boycott of American products. Wherein, the U.S. at large will be hit harder and that will cost more in the long run. As Europeans and others will chose other allies to have trading partners with. They cannot trust the U.S. or the ones in power there. Therefore, they rather go elsewhere for sustainability and favourable terms for trading, which means the U.S. is losing an edge or even being a viable option.

Expect also the dollar-system of the financial markets to be stalled and possibly be interchanged with other currencies. As they cannot have a bully and a tormentor to be running it. That sort of trust and dishonesty will only hurt the U.S. Treasury, and the U.S. Bonds itself. This is just bound to hurt itself and does it willingly.

American citizens will be hurt. They will pay the price of this. The 1% will be enriched and consolidate more financial grip of the markets, but the ones on the floors or being the blue-collar worker will pay a higher price as a cause of it. Peace.

South Sudan: Catholic Diocese of Torit – Press Release (03.04.2025)

Zimbabwe: Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) – Community runs amok after brutal killing of artisanal miner at Sino Africa Huijin (04.04.2025)

Benin: Nouvelle Force Nationale (NFN) – Communique du Parti la Nouvelle Force Nationale (NFN) suite a l’Arrestation de Son President Wilfrid Apollinaire a Vognon (03.04.2025)

Opinion: Ssegona’s horrific tales of the usage of bail or the non-use of it!

“You adjourn a bail application. What is so novel in a bail ruling? Someone tells you, I’m going to hear your case, but I’ll hear your bail application two weeks, three weeks away from today. You are defeating the Constitution. Because in the Constitution, everybody is entitled to be free, except where their accuser places on your table justification for restriction. Isn’t that the position of the law? Every innocent person is entitled to freedom. Now, you’re aiding the State to incarcerate somebody who is innocent until two weeks when that person will come to justify his freedom. I think it’s unfair” (…) “Why do you charge a lot of money? Somebody has been arrested. Actually, somebody is a victim. The police arrest people, beat them up, we witnessed it in Kawempe recently. Someone has been boxed by the DPC, he comes to you with a swollen face, you remand him, then when you choose to hear, you ask a lot of money. These ordinary people, they pick on the streets, trying to survive. Why do you make bail so prohibitive?” – Medard Ssegoona MP (03.04.2025).

Justice delayed is injustice served. The state is deliberately using their power and the instruments of state to take away the freedom, liberty and ability to move as civilians. As the state can apprehend, charge and detain people for prolonged time. That’s a common occurrence in the Republic.

It is vital that the August House knows about the practice and get to know the justification of it. As it is in contradiction with the rights of the individuals and the ones criminally penalized without any sentencing. People are kept incommunicado, detained and such without proper trial or even due process. That means they are illegally kept as prisoners and as state property. This should worry the authorities, but in this day and age. They don’t mind at all.

“You get somebody who is battered, who is bleeding, and you remand that person. You do not even instruct prisons, go and keep this person in hospital. Instead, you say, I am remanding somebody to Luzira. You know, just next door in Kenya, Kenyans went and burned their parliament. We do not want to see Ugandans burning our courts. Why? Because once the dignity of the court is questioned and shaken, we are in trouble because somebody who would have taken me to court, will use a panga, will resort to mob justice” (…) “Before you receive information from the Commissioner General, you are the one who remanded these people. You definitely know who you remanded, you know when you required them to come back. How can somebody be in prison for a year without your remand warrant? When people are being committed to the high court for trial, you also have that record because the magistrate who is committing notes on the file” (Ssegoona, 03.04.2025).

This here just states what we have said for a long time. Several of us has called this practice out in the void. There are too many who are penalized and detained without proper trial. Neither is there any evidence or proof of the allegations or charges pinned on the individuals. Therefore, the reality is grim, and this is what the state is willing to do.

This is what the authorities … and the state does to citizens. It is the tools it has and willing to do. Ssegoona MP spoke facts, but don’t the state or the authorities to act upon it. The MP can speak out, but that doesn’t matter for the ones in office. They are serving the President and his inner circle. These people are favoured for acting this way and that’s why the practice is so normalized. Peace.