Thanks to Peter Fabricius and ISS for spotlighting our show on the drastic cuts to U.S. foreign aid, its impacts, and opportunities. The program featured a variety of insights from gathara, Namatai Kwekweza🇿🇼, Carine Kaneza Nantulya, Mac-Darling Cobbinah GIH and Jakkie Cilliers. issafrica.org/iss-today/is-t…

I started blogging again. I have not been writing consistently for a while and I miss that me. I wrote a reflection piece on our recent The Resistance Bureau show on Africa and aid. Do check it out, share it and subscribe so you don’t miss future articles. thatgirlmantate.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/afr…

"Levels in democracy in Africa are higher than one would expect given levels of development ... some of that propping up was a function of aid from the West... and that is now going to fall away." Critical insights from Jakkie Cilliers on aid dependency. youtube.com/watch?v=H8Tjeq…

#FreeTunduLissu

East Africa is home to several upcoming elections: #Burundi, #Tanzania, #Uganda. In each of them, key opposition leaders are in jail, under assault or their parties banned. We spoke to Martha Karua SC about this regional contagion and how citizens can resist: youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…

"#Kenya is now a rogue state ... across East Africa, authorities are killing our democracy, our civic spaces. There is an urgency to resist." I had the pleasure to speak to Martha Karua SC for The Resistance Bureau. We also discussed #Tanzania and #Uganda at length. youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…

⁦Martha Karua SC⁩ speaks to ⁦Jeffrey Smith⁩ about authoritarian in EAC youtu.be/g_KuRz_be_8?si…

🇰🇪 The Resistance Bureau Martha Karua SC Jeffrey Smith Cc Maria Sarungi Tsehai Mary Serumaga youtu.be/g_KuRz_be_8?si…

After my talk with Martha Karua SC the situation in #Tanzania has worsened. Opposition leader Tundu Antiphas Lissu remains jailed on bogus charges, and now activists from the region showing solidarity are being detained, deported. This couldn't have been more timely: youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…

If we’re not vigilant ahead of the upcoming elections, we risk becoming like Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi where opposition voices are systematically repressed and denied their democratic space. But come to think of it, aren’t we already there?

We've conducted timely interviews in recent months, spotlighting anti-democratic crackdowns in East Africa to lesser covered issues like Togo's election charade, post-election violence in Mozambique, and Africa's last absolute monarchy. Catch up on it all: theresistancebureau.com/interviews

"Together, as citizens of East Africa, we must take our destinies into our hands and push back against dictatorship, rising authoritarianism, and the continued abuse of our human rights." Watch Jeffrey Smith's timely conversation with Martha Karua SC: youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…

And for those interested, I recently spoke to both Joseph Oleshangay and Martha Karua SC about these concerning issues, via the The Resistance Bureau: youtube.com/watch?v=yQFOUa… youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…

This week, citizens in #Togo and in the diaspora are rising up to 'say no' to 58 years of military dictatorship, broken promises, and political repression. Recently, our Jeffrey Smith spoke to Farida Bemba Nabourema and Marc Nda about these key issues. Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQYES…

I was hosted by Jeffrey Smith Via The Resistance Bureau for a timely and unfiltered conversation about the state of Rwanda under Kagame’s increasingly authoritarian regime. We explored the revelations of #RwandaClassified, the renewed crackdown on opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza,

I spoke to award-winning journalist and co-founder of M28 Investigates / Unité M28, Samuel Baker BYANSI, about events in #Rwanda including the rumors around Paul Kagame's health and a related crackdown on Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and what's left of the political opposition. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=bDqPhQ…

We recently discussed these issues with activists Farida Bemba Nabourema and Marc Nda. Despite Faure's extended hold on power, #Togo remains one of the world's least developed countries in which poverty, corruption, and eroding human rights have been the norm. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQYES…

'Under the surface [of the Kagame dictatorship], there's another #Rwanda waiting; one made up of the young, the connected, and those increasingly unwilling to accept fear as a foundation for peace.' Our conversation with Samuel Baker BYANSI: youtube.com/watch?v=bDqPhQ…

The rate at which #Kenya is becoming a killer state with impunity is deeply worrying. Just today, police opened fire on protesters, killing several people. The warning signs have been increasingly evident this year, issues we discussed with Martha Karua SC: youtube.com/watch?v=g_KuRz…