Jeffrey Smith
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Founder: @VanguardAfrica | Co-creator: @ResistBureau | UConn Husky | 'democracy jihadist' | Recent words: @ForeignPolicy, @JoDemocracy, @TIME | Views=mine🌱
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http://www.vanguardafrica.com 27-06-2012 19:03:26
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Bobi Wine (BOBI WINE), #Uganda's most prominent pro-democracy advocate, was shot today by the police. A timely moment to re-up this piece I wrote four years ago. It is past due for Washington to stop bankrolling and supporting the Museveni dictatorship. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 The Harare High Court has granted bail for @namataik,Councilor Samuel Gwenzi and Robson Chere. The three had spent 35 days in pre-trial detention after their arrest on 31 July 2024 at Robert Mugabe International Airport.
For those who want to read the full complaint filed with the International Criminal Court in 2021, see our Vanguard Africa website. Predictably, BOBI WINE was also assaulted during the press conference announcing the filing, which you can also see here: vanguardafrica.com/news/2021/1/7/…
#Tanzania "The mass arrests and arbitrary detention of figures from [CHADEMA Tanzania], as well as their supporters and journalists, is a deeply worrying sign in the run-up to local government elections in December 2024 and the 2025 general election." dw.com/en/has-tanzani…
See here from Simon Marks: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
We are proud to sign this letter with Platform for African Democrats following the shooting of BOBI WINE in #Uganda. Governments and businesses that aid the Museveni dictatorship must stand up and be heard as the regime continues to violate human rights. vanguardafrica.com/blog/2024/9/5/…
"Next time you're on social media and try to engage with a vicious troll, keep in mind that you're likely not dealing with someone who cares about truth... odds are you've encountered someone who [has] a destructive trait: the Need for Chaos." forkingpaths.co/p/the-need-for… Brian Klaas
#Guinea "The process of returning to constitutional order has made very little headway, the socio-economic situation is poor, tensions in the army persist, protests are mounting and repression is increasingly brutal." africanarguments.org/2024/09/guinea… Vincent Foucher African Arguments
"The West has looked away from #Uganda's slide into bloody autocracy, citing the need for it to tend to its security interests ... This has enabled growing state violence, culminating in this brazen shooting of [BOBI WINE] the leader of the opposition." vanguardafrica.com/blog/2024/9/5/…