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How East Africa's political class betrayed its own people

Activist Boniface Mwangi Airlifted on 22nd May 2025, from Mombasa to Wilson Airport. Mwangi was deported from Tanzania by road and abandoned in Ukunda.[Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

The "sacred-promise" for East African citizens with the ambition of the East Africa Community leading Africa with its ambitious Vision 2050, is quickly being eroded by a reckless, fearful, power hungry political leadership.

Recent East Africa political actions against its citizens is worrying. I would like to go as far back as possible because Uganda has been terrorising its citizens for decades now, as recently narrated in a "Poems from Prison - We Refuse to Be Victims" by Sam Mugumya, a Ugandan jailed in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Prison Militaire de Ndolo for eight years, arrested while seeking asylum.

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