Tag Archives: Ordeal

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has for the first time acknowledged that two Kenyan activists were detained by his government, using the chilling term “the fridge” to describe their confinement. The admission comes after Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were missing for 38 days, following their abduction by masked, uniformed men in Uganda last month. The pair had been attending a …

By Alexander Luyima | The Hoima Post A red t-shirt and a head of dreadlocks were enough to mark 20-year-old Luzige Masuudi for death. On the evening of November 18, 2020, what began as an act of political expression nearly ended in a cold mortuary drawer, exposing a brutal campaign of state-sponsored violence designed to silence dissent in Uganda. The …