Fake Millions, Hidden Cameras and ‘Pineapples’: The Spy at the Heart of the Besigye Treason Trial

A courtroom in Kampala got a crash course in covert tradecraft this week. A prosecution witness in the treason trial of veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye admitted he posed as a wealthy foreign financier, dangled $5 million and promised hand grenades to gain access to Besigye’s inner circle. None of the money or weapons were real. The secret recordings, however, were.

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August 19, 2026
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Winnie Byanyima Steps Out of the Diplomatic Shadows to Fight for Her Husband’s Life

The head of one of the world’s most powerful health organisations stood outside her Kasangati home and issued a demand, not a plea, for the release of her ailing husband. Winnie Byanyima says Kizza Besigye cannot walk, cannot speak, and is slowly fading inside a hospital room ringed by prison warders. She wants him home, in Geneva, and she is not asking nicely.

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August 16, 2026
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Winnie Byanyima Says Besigye’s Treason Case Is Really About Silencing Anyone Who Dares Oppose Museveni

Speaking from her home in Kasangati, Winnie Byanyima delivered a sharp and unflinching verdict on her husband’s ongoing legal ordeal: this was never just about Kizza Besigye. It is about what happens to anyone bold enough to challenge Yoweri Museveni. And according to her, the answer has always been the same.

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August 16, 2026
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Freedom Over Bars: Why Ssemujju Nganda Chose Exile and Has No Plans to Come Back

Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda left Uganda in June and, months later, he is not quietly reconsidering that choice. In a candid interview, the former legislator laid out exactly why he believes a free voice outside his country is worth more than a silenced one inside its prisons.

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August 10, 2026
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Sent Back to Prison While Too Weak to Walk: The Battle Over Kizza Besigye’s Medical Care

A stark contradiction has opened up between official assurances and a wife’s anguished account. While Uganda’s Health Minister declared Kizza Besigye was ‘steadily recuperating’ at Mulago Hospital, Winnie Byanyima says he was bundled back to Luzira Prison that same evening unable to walk, speak clearly, or feed himself. The details are alarming, and the questions they raise are even more so.

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August 8, 2026
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Lift Footage, A Collapsed Defendant, and a Treason Trial That Kenya Cannot Escape

A surveillance camera inside a Nairobi apartment building captured what no one was supposed to see. Now that footage is public, and it is reshaping the conversation around one of Uganda’s most watched political trials.

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August 3, 2026
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