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Yvonne Mpambara

@yvonnemya.bsky.social
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Aspiring Presidential Candidate, 2026 Republic of Uganda 🇺🇬 Social Justice Lawyer & Equitable Philanthropist.

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Yvonne Mpambara @yvonnemya.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Uganda’s 2026 Presidential Election Process is one we have witnessed before. A process captured by state infrastructure to muffle dissent. What is the military doing in politics - capturing the electoral process forcefully guarding presidential candidates during the campaigns? #WomenForPresidency
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Yvonne Mpambara @yvonnemya.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ladies, gentlemen, ALL Ugandans in the country and in the diaspora, my name is Yvonne Mpambara and I am for Presidency of the Republic of Uganda 2026 - 2031. Dear Ugandans, we have to #ShiftThePower and challenge Uganda’s Political Culture & end this old game of politics. #MadamPresident2026
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Yvonne Mpambara @yvonnemya.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
As we push with the @AfricaUnion.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy for reparations, Africa’s past must be honored, its injustices acknowledged and its future reclaimed. We join hands for #AfricaDay2025 under #Agenda2063 as our collective blueprint for a prosperous, self reliant and inclusive continent.
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Africa Elects @africaelects.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#DRC: Former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon (LGD, centre-left) was sentenced to ten years' hard labor after being convicted of embezzling ~ $250 million USD from a failed agricultural project.
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The Kenya Times @thekenyatimes.com · 23/05/2025
"We had been tortured, and we were told to strip naked" ~ Boniface Mwangi opens up about his harrowing ordeal with Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire after their detention by Tanzanian authorities   Full story: thekenyatimes.com/393k
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Align: @alignconnects.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In honor of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, the PUSH Campaign is bringing together allies and partners for a virtual event to highlight the critical role that midwives play in women’s health. 📆 28 May 🕐 15:00-16:00 CET RSVP: internationalmidwives-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 22/05/2025
Threatening universities. Attacking judges. Bullying law firms. Clamping down on free speech. If it looks like it, talks like it, and acts like it, it is moving toward authoritarianism.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ugandan lawyer Agatha Atuhaire was dumped at the Uganda-#Tanzania border by Tanzanian police after four days of being unjustly detained and allegedly tortured. Atuhaire was detained in Dar es Salaam after trying to attend the treason hearing of Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The chilling details of Agather Atuhaire’s treatment at the hands of Tanzanian security agents are coming to light (tw torture). (H/y @aljazeera.com for the graphic).
[Tanzanian police] kidnapped [Atuhaire], blindfolded her, stripped her naked, took nude photos of her, insulted and tortured her, denied her food, stole all her money and phone, and, four days later, dumped her 2 km before reaching the border with Uganda... at about 2 a.m.
JIM SPIRE SSENTONGO
Agora Discourse Co-Founder
On X/Twitter
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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
You are announced as the first in the room, as shattering barriers, as cracking ceilings, as shaking foundations, as unsettling earth. You are earthquake and gale, hurricane and tornado. A weather event. A natural disaster. A catastrophe.The force that remakes the room. You smile at the lie.-Keguro
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The fact that Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the cusp of war yet again is a reminder that eventually war can become so seeded in the logic of a state that it becomes its raison d’être. A cabal of old men who have become so rooted in warfare that they cannot even comprehend peace.
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Join us next week for the launch of Library of perspectives. Register: us06web.zoom.us/j/8262515138...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/04/2025
Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
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Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline
Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/03/2025
Hamas says Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt humanitarian aid into Gaza is “cheap blackmail” and a “coup” against the ceasefire deal. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
One of my favourite public menopause moments was a couple of yrs ago at a restaurant w/a fireplace. A woman came in with a friend and said loudly something like "Let's not sit near the fireplace. My hot flashes are hot enough." Just like that. Yes. Thank you www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-end-...
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Essay: End the Whispering Around Menopause
Illustration: © Innak | Dreamstime.com
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today's quick update [Feb 24]: - RSF shelling reported in Elobeid, North Kordofan. - RSF shoot down SAF aircraft reportedly carrying military personnel over Nyala, South Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The new changes to Sudan's constitutional document are so predictable and so, so terrifying. #KeepEyesOnSudan sudantribune.com/article297812/
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Amended Constitutional Declaration extends Sudan's transition - Sudan Tribune
February 23, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – Sudan’s Ministry of Justice on Sunday published an amended Constitutional Declaration that extends the transitional period by 39 months, eliminates the committee inves...
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
DID YOU KNOW: Veterans are included in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/02/2025
For the first time since 2002, Israeli tanks have been deployed to the northern occupied West Bank as the Israeli government ordered the military to prepare for an “extended stay” in refugee camps there. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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New ‘Nakba’ fears grow as Israel ramps up occupied West Bank assault
Israel says it won’t allow 40,000 Palestinians to return as tanks storm into West Bank for first time since 2002.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/02/2025
Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim says Israel postponing the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners exposes “the entire agreement to grave danger” and has called on US mediators to pressure Israel “to implement the agreement.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m3v9y3
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
One of the greatest gifts of the transition known as menopause is shamelessness. I am not known as one easily shamed nor is modesty one of my virtues. Still, I gasp at the heights of audacity that I like to think come monthly in lieu of my long gone menstrual cycle.
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#ShiftThePower @shiftthepower.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What we are reading: Facing the Aid Freeze: What We Must Do Now and Tomorrow by Dzikamai Bere theciviclens.org/facingaidfre... #ShiftThePower
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote before the 2024 election. Reposting because it is stunning to see anyone in the U.S. (rightfully) rage against one president's proposed ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (Trump) unless they also rage at his predecessor's genocide of Palestinians (Biden) www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear...
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Essay: Dear White Democrats
Read also: Feminism vs Genocide (Free to read)
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
South African soldiers in DRC: “This was a suicide mission”
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South African soldiers in DRC: 'This was a suicide mission' | City Press
By late this week, the South African troops were effectively prisoners or hostages of the M23 rebels after bloody battles during the rebels' advance on Goma.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
BREAKING: Israel will face diplomatic and economic sanctions from a league of countries Nine nations have unveiled a raft of measures to punish the country for its conduct in Palestine
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How are you doing? This month has been rough
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today’s quick update [Jan 28]: - RSF shelling continues in Elfashir, as well as SAF airstrikes. - Clashes between SAF and RSF continue in Khartoum, with SAF gaining control of more areas in Bahri. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Sudan Solidarity Collective, has with your generous support raised over $500,000 for emergency response rooms and other grassroots groups across the country from Khartoum to Darfur to the Nuba Mountains to Kassala. Pls consider becoming a monthly donor at sudansolidarity.com.
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Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Yvonne Mpambara @yvonnemya.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I am genuinely getting tired of it! Zero accountability 🚮
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It hasn’t rained in 200 years in the Dead Vlei, which is nestled in a valley between the dunes in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park, and is considered the world's oldest desert.
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Inside the 'world's oldest desert' where it hasn't rained in 200 million years
The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more arid, with some parts receiving absolutely no rain at all for 200 million ye...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/01/2025
‘Five babies in incubator’ Human Rights Watch finds Israel has violated the rights of pregnant women and girls in Gaza, with no end in sight.
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‘Five babies in incubator’: HRW on danger to pregnant women, babies in Gaza
Human Rights Watch finds Israel has violated rights of pregnant women and girls, with no end in sight.
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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“The long-run goal is, I think, the same for every human being, that politically he or she may be allowed to live free from fear, insecurity, terror, and oppression, free also from the possibility of exercising unequal or unjust domination over others.”- Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Over four dozen Tanzanian soldiers reportedly trapped near Goma’s airport, calling for urgent rescue and evacuation as M23 rebels solidify their control of the city. They are holed up in a storage facility containing minerals and supplies, unable to escape due to the heavy presence of M23 forces.
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Tanzanian Troops Trapped in Goma Seek Evacuation Amid M23 Control
Over four dozen Tanzanian soldiers are reportedly trapped near Goma’s airport, calling for urgent rescue and evacuation as M23 rebels solidify their control of the city. Precisely, 43 troops are said ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today's quick update [Jan 20]: - RSF attack on Bashagra villages in Jezira State; preliminary reports indicate 35 people killed & major violations committed by RSF, including scarring faces and cutting off fingers. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Civil disobedience … was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy,” the author and activist Howard Zinn. “The greatest danger … was civil obedience.”
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Make your mind too free for fascism to chain your imagination. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her 1974 anarchist utopian science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed
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Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) @safeabortion.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We asked the organisations we fund what the impact of a new Trump presidency will be on their work on #abortion: “Abortion stigma will increase. The government will strengthen their arguments citing that America, a developed country, is also saying no to abortion.” saafund.org/us-politics-...
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We wish US politics didn’t have such a big impact on global abortion access, but it does - Safe Abortion Action Fund
It’s extremely likely that one of the first things Trump will do when he takes office is block aid for organisations working on, or supporting, abortion.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Gaza ceasefire: Displaced Palestinians return to devastated homes - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-cea…
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Displaced Palestinians return to devastated homes in Gaza
Families return to their homes after the ceasefire, only to find widespread destruction, uncertainty and a difficult future ahead
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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today and in the coming days, remember
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Mauritius imposes restrictions on water use as reservoirs dry up
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Mauritius Imposes Restrictions on Water Use as Reservoirs Dry Up
The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius will impose restrictions on water usage from Monday as reservoirs drop to critical levels.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What is a “strong” woman? We must disentangle strength from suffering. FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 70 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...
Text: In so many of the life narratives given or allowed to cisgender women, suffering equates strength. Those social scripts signal to us that we’ve “failed at womanhood” if we don’t plough through suffering. What is a “strong” woman? We must disentangle strength from suffering. We must point to ways of being strong that are not undergirded by female suffering. A woman can be strong without offering proof she has suffered.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Biden, Blinken, et al armed, funded, facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza www.propublica.org/article/bide...
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A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I will never understand how the Dems did not make a bigger deal of Trump’s COVID failures.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Palestinian human rights defender Ihab Fisal killed in an Israeli airstrike after the ceasefire was announced. Relentless.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16/01/2025
Israel has killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire announcement.
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