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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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