Muhoozi ordered Kakwenza to expose his penis as he filmed him—New York Times

 

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Muhoozi ordered Kakwenza to expose his penis as he filmed him—New York Times

https://ojuganda.com/2026/10/08/muhoozi-ordered-kakwenza-to-expose-his-penis-as-he-filmed-him-new-york-times/ 

 8th October 2026

 

 Musaazi NAMITI

 

America’s leading and most influential newspaper has published startling allegations about army chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, saying that he once ordered exiled writer and lawyer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija to expose his penis while he filmed him.

 

In a hard-hitting article of more than 4,000 words titled “The authoritarian future is already here”, the New York Times also said Uganda was in the “grip of a reign of terror”. 

 

“Mr. Rukirabashaija was repeatedly detained and tortured. He was viciously flogged and beaten so badly that his ankle bones were fractured, his kidneys damaged and his back laced with scars from being whipped,” the Times reported. 

 

“Mr. Rukirabashaija said that General Kainerugaba, the president’s son, twice visited him in detention. During the first visit, he said, the general ordered the author—the taller of the two men—to bend over to make himself shorter and to remove his pants to reveal the size of his penis. Then, as the general recorded the exchange on his phone, he told Mr. Rukirabashaija to kneel on the floor and apologize, the author said.” 

 

The Times added: “On the second visit, he said, General Kainerugaba offered him a bribe to keep quiet about the abuse he had suffered. Mr. Rukirabashaija was stunned.” 

 

The article also mentioned Gen Kainerugaba’s “basement”, or “torture chambers he brags about on social media” and President Yoweri Museveni, Gen Kainerugaba’s father, whom it called “an octogenarian autocrat”.

 

“Ugandans have discovered that, increasingly, there is nowhere to hide. Civic life here is defined by thickening webs of state surveillance built with foreign help,” the paper reported. 

 

It said the government was using Chinese cameras and facial-recognition software to monitor the streets and Russian radio frequency chips implanted in license plates to track cars in real time.

 

“Israeli software plunders the private contents of phones. Technology has created an intrusive eye that never blinks—a stealthy weapon for dictators keen to stifle speech and thought,” the Times reported. 

 

The article comes a month after the Economist, another influential Western news outlet, published a scathing editorial about Mr Museveni and Gen Kainerugaba’s bid for the presidency in 2031.

 

“The general could take over from his father and impose a capricious, vengeful and ethnically charged despotism on Uganda,” wrote the Economist. 

 

The UPDF had not responded to the article by press time, and OJ-UGANDA could not reach out to Gen Kainerugaba for comment. 

 

But Mr Rukirabashaija, who fled the country in February 2022, has previously said many times that he was tortured on the orders of Gen Kainerugaba.

 

When OJ-UGANDA asked Mr Rukirabashaija, via email, to respond to the Times claim that Gen Kainerugaba filmed his penis, he said: “Yes, I confirm.”

 

A UPDF lieutenant, Herbert Mabonga, who quit the army claiming he had witnessed enough torture meted out to abducted Ugandans, alleged that Gen Kainerugaba and President Museveni were responsible for safe houses where abductees are tortured. 

 

“I have been in one safe house. I have witnessed what people go through. I have recorded videos of victims in the safe houses,” Lt Mabonga says in a video, using the euphemism for torture houses.

 

“Very young men are held captive for many years in safe houses on [the] orders of the CDF [Chief of Defence Forces]. The CDF is directly answerable to the safe house where these political prisoners are held.”

 

Lt Mabonga says President Yoweri Museveni—”the one you have glorified for many years”—is aware of the atrocities being committed against Ugandans.

 

In a statement posted on X, the UPDF said Lt Mabonga had left his duty station without permission and that his absence was upgraded to desertion. The statement did not address allegations of torture in safe houses.

 

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Disgrantled UPDF Lieutenant leaks new ‘safehouse footage’ of Sam Mugumya, Muwanga Kivumbi

 

https://www.pulse.ug/story/updf-safehouse-footage-sam-mugumya-muwanga-kivumbi-2026093012471303059 

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Former UPDF Lt Herbert Mabonga leaks safehouse footage allegedly showing opposition figures Sam Mugumya and Muwanga Kivumbi in military detention.

A man who identifies himself as a Uganda People’s Defence Forces lieutenant has released videos which he claims were recorded inside a military safehouse, with some clips appearing to show opposition figures Sam Mugumya and Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi in detention.

 

Lt Herbert Matanda Mabonga posted the footage on social media alongside claims of torture, illegal detention and enforced disappearances by security personnel.

The location and date of the recordings which he claimed was at a safe house in Entebbe, could not be independently verified. The UPDF had also not publicly responded to Mabonga’s claims by the time of publication.

One of the clips appears to show Mr Mugumya, a former aide to opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye, struggling to walk around a compound in what appears to be a rehabilitation or physiotherapy exercise.

In one clip, Mugumya wears a yellow campaign T-shirt bearing President Yoweri Museveni’s image. Another man walks alongside him as he slowly moves around the compound of a gated house.

Other footage shows the interior of the house, including rooms and bedding said to have been used by detainees.

Another clip appears to show a military officer checking the blood pressure of former Butambala County MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi.

Mr Kivumbi, who is also the National Unity Platform deputy president for Buganda, was granted Shs3 million cash bail by the Butambala Grade One Magistrate’s Court on September 29, 2026. 

He faces charges of inciting violence and managing an unlawful society, which he denies. His lawyers have previously alleged that security personnel tortured him while he was in custody.

Human Rights Watch also reported in August that Kivumbi had alleged torture after his detention, while Ugandan authorities brought criminal charges against him.

Before releasing the clips, Mabonga posted a lengthy video in which he introduced himself as a UPDF officer at the rank of lieutenant and claimed to have served in the army for 15 years.

He said he had worked as an intelligence officer under Defence Intelligence and Security, formerly known as the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence.

Mabonga also claimed that he had served as an aide to former Internal Affairs minister Gen Aronda Nyakairima and the late Brig Gen Tom Kikoyo Kabuye, who served as Assistant Chief of Defence Intelligence.

He said he had since left the army.

Mabonga also claimed to have written a document raising concerns about governance, corruption and alleged human rights abuses within the military.

“I have evidenced and observed matters that really my heart cannot bear anymore. Matters that relate to arbitrary arrests, disappearances, kidnaps and torture,” he said.

“The perpetrators of these evil actions…have no heart for humanity. And these are people I need to expose, some of whom are supported by you fellow Ugandans; you advocate for them to continue leading the country; you advocate for them to take public offices.”

Mabonga claimed he had more recordings and other evidence relating to alleged torture and detention. He also named several people whom he said had been held at security facilities.

He said he had previously tried to raise his concerns through internal military channels but alleged that he faced harassment and later fled his home.

The videos prompted reactions from opposition figures, lawyers and other Ugandans on social media.

Ms Winnie Byanyima, the wife of Dr Besigye, expressed concern after seeing the footage involving Mugumya.

“My heart is broken. Impossible to imagine how the mother is coping,” she said.

Lawyer Eron Kiiza also called for Mugumya’s release, saying witnesses had previously placed him at what they described as a military detention facility in Kasenyi, Wakiso District.

“Pray for @SamMugumya. Witnesses who have seen him, and whose testimonies we have placed before the High Court of Uganda (Civil Division) presided over by Hon. Justice Simon Peter Kinobe (@SPKinobe2018), state that he is illegally detained at the military/SFC detention facility in Kasenyi, Wakiso District, and that he was nearly tortured to death,” Mr Kiiza said.

“It behoves @JudiciaryUG to order his release from this illegal, incommunicado and arbitrary detention. It is deplorable that Ugandans continue to be subjected to enforced disappearance and stripped of the protection of the law.”

Another social media user, Godwin Toko, reacted to Mugumya’s apparent difficulty walking and questioned why he was wearing a Museveni campaign shirt.

Mabonga’s identity, military service record and account of how he obtained the footage remain unverified, while the circumstances under which the videos were recorded are also unclear.

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UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small

4 September 2026 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284  

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is.

 

By 164 votes to one, Member States on Friday endorsed a resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true size of continents – the culmination of an African-led campaign against the 16th-century Mercator projection, still the most widely used map in the world.

The United States cast the sole vote against, dismissing the initiative as part of a “radical ideological project.” 

Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.

The resolution does not ban the Mercator projection or impose a replacement. Instead, it encourages governments, schools, international organizations and technology companies to use the Equal Earth projection and other so-called equal-area maps when relative size matters, and to teach the limitations of any flat map in representing a spherical planet.

 

Behind that seemingly technical debate lies a larger argument about history and power: whether a map designed for European sailors in the 16th century has, over generations, distorted not only geography but perceptions of a whole, vast and complex continent.

“Maps shape our understanding of the world,” Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign minister, said before the vote. “They guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions.”

 

Made small

Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, devised his projection in 1569 to solve a practical problem of maritime navigation. Because straight lines on his map correspond to constant compass directions, sailors could use it to plot their courses.

But preserving direction came at the expense of area. Landmasses appear increasingly enlarged the farther they are from the Equator. 

Greenland for instance can look roughly comparable in size to Africa, even though Africa is about 14 times larger. Northern Europe and North America are similarly magnified, relative to equatorial regions.

Despite its original navigational purpose, Mercator remains common in educational, media, digital and official materials. The resolution says those distortions have contributed to the “symbolic minimization” of Africa and perpetuated an unbalanced view of the world.

‘A fair map’

Togo led negotiations on behalf of the African group, building on a campaign backed by the African Union. 

The resolution describes correcting such distortions as an act of “cognitive justice and memorial reparation” and points to Equal Earth, developed in 2018, as a projection that more accurately represents relative size. 

Mr. Dussey emphasized that the effort was not meant to condemn Mercator, whose usefulness for navigation he acknowledged, or to impose a single projection.

“A fair map does not change the geography of the world, it changes how we see the world,” he said.

UN Photo Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo (at podium and on screens), introduces the "Correct the map” draft resolution.

Washington objects

The United States saw something far more political in the effort.

“This resolution mocks the work and purpose of this institution,” the American representative said, arguing that what was presented as an innocuous attempt to update cartographic proportions was part of “the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to.”

The representative singled out the resolution’s references to reparations and “cognitive justice,” calling initiatives like it “barnacles on our work here and the reason this institution is losing its credibility.”

France moved in the opposite direction. Hours before the vote, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced Paris was planning to abandon Mercator for its maps of the world, aligning his Government with the broader effort championed by the African Union.

The shift means France itself, like the United States and Russia, will appear smaller relative to equatorial countries. 

It illustrates the unusual dynamics of this decades-long debate. Equal-area maps do not make Africa larger; they remove the exaggeration Mercator gives landmasses closer to the poles.

Borderline revolt

Ukraine said it supported efforts to correct historical distortions affecting Africa and other parts of the Global South but objected to the way some maps using Equal Earth depict Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia.

Its representative warned that endorsing the projection without adequate safeguards could open a “Pandora’s box,” allowing maps to create ambiguity over disputed territories.

The European Union supported the resolution but addressed the same concern. 

Speaking on behalf of the bloc, Ireland stressed that the measure applied only to the relative size of landmasses and had no bearing on sovereignty, territorial status or internationally recognized borders. 

The bloc also said its support did not constitute an endorsement of the maps displayed on the Equal Earth website.

Imperfect view

The resolution itself acknowledges a fundamental problem that no vote can solve. No projection can perfectly reproduce the curved surface of the Earth on a plane. Each sacrifice something – area, shape, distance or direction – and each is suited to different purposes.

The measure is nonbinding, and Mercator is not disappearing into the library vaults, never to be seen again.

But Friday’s vote gave near unanimous international backing to an argument which many African governments have increasingly pressed: that the choices we make over maps can shape how generations understand the world.

 

‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa’s size

https://www.ms.now/news/united-nations-africa-u-s-new-map 

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions. 

 

By  Sydney Reynolds 

 

Sept. 5, 2026, 4:54 PM EDT

 

 

The United Nations has adopted a West African country’s proposal for a new world map to replace one created in the 16th century.

The vote on Friday was almost unanimous. Only one country — the United States — voted against the proposed map, which more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions, calling it “radical.” 

The resolution, titled “Correct the Map,” officially phases out the standard Mercator map, which cartographers say distorts the actual size of landmasses.

Tom Patterson, a retired cartographer for the U.S. National Park Service, is a co-creator of the Equal Earth map and says it provides a much-needed update.

“That was extremely useful during the age of exploration and European colonialism,” Patterson told NPR in an interview last year. “If you’re using the Mercator map as a world map, say, in the classroom, students would just have a completely warped view of the size of countries in the world.”

Greenland, for example, appears equal in size to the entire continent of Africa when, in reality, the autonomous Danish territory is 14 times smaller. 

The vote was 164 to one, with six other countries — Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine — abstaining. All other member nations supported the proposal, led by Togo.

“When the United Nations questions why it is losing legitimacy in the world and is not taken seriously time and again, we point to resolutions such as this,” Yaryna Ferencevych, a U.S. representative to the United Nations, said in a statement explaining the U.S. dissent.

“While this initiative is presented as an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions, the United States clearly sees it cannot be separated from the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to,” Ferencevych added.

Ukraine said it disagreed with the new map’s reflection of Russian territory