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Bangladesh’s former prime minister has been sentenced to death after being convicted of crimes against humanity over her crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting. Sheikh Hasina was found guilty of allowing lethal force to be used against protesters, 1,400 of whom died during the unrest last year. Hasina, 78, was tried in absentia by the International Crimes …

In his provocative new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, renowned Ugandan-Indian scholar Prof. Mahmood Mamdani delivers one of the most powerful and unsettling critiques yet of President Yoweri Museveni’s nearly four-decade rule. The book’s central claim is both bold and deeply unsettling: Museveni, Mamdani argues, has become worse than Idi Amin, …

Winnie Byanyima tells ‘weak trolls and bots’: ‘Stay out of our family affairs.’ Winnie Byanyima with her son, Anselm Besigye. (Photo courtesy of Winnie Byanyima via X/Twitter)   Online homophobes have launched a hate campaign against the son of Winnie Byanyima, the Ugandan leader of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency, debating his sexuality and gender on social media platforms. Byanyima, …

By Muhimbise George As Ugandans prepare to go to the polls next year, the political landscape is once again flooded with presidential contenders, each promising to be the face of change. But amid the noise, one sobering truth must be told: not every new face guarantees new direction. Not every voice shouting “change” carries the substance, wisdom, and steadiness needed …