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1. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Laetitia Bader Director, Horn of Africa LaetitiaBader LaetitiaBader

   Uganda’s Military Forcibly Disappears Opposition Politician (opens the original)

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   It has been 13 days since armed soldiers seized Muwanga Kivumbi, a deputy president for the National Unity Platform, Uganda’s main opposition party. He has not been heard from since and the authorities have yet to account for his whereabouts. On July 10, the day after a court released Kivumbi on bail on politically related terrorism charges, armed plainclothes and uniformed soldiers dragged him from his car at a police roadblock on the outskirts of Kampala and drove off with him to an unknown lo

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2. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Laetitia Bader Director, Horn of Africa LaetitiaBader LaetitiaBader

   A New Generation of Eritreans Enters Indefinite Service (opens the original)

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   Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other senior government officials presided over the 38th graduation ceremony of secondary school students from the Sawa military training center on July 11. Though graduation ceremonies are ordinarily a cause for celebration and the promise of a new future, for many young Eritreans, Sawa’s graduation ceremonies sadly mark the loss of both—and the start of a cruel indefinite national service. The Eritrean government since 2003 has forced thousands of secondar

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