Democracy in East Africa is withdrawn. Here’s how can be saved | Policy

Last week, Uganda lawyer Agather Atuhaire Five days later than five days after being taken into custody for reasons not known by Tanzania police. Mutukula between the two countries was not in the border crossing.

The details of Atuhaire’s condition are not known, but Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi, who was arrested with him, claimed to torture. He showed the signs of physical violence after being thrown at the Kenya-Tanzania border its day before.

For East Africans, Atuhaire and Mwangi’s Ordue reminded how much democracy was taken in the region. The state faced structural and physical violence with little space to increase people with extreme resistance.

Mwangi and Atuhaire, Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu was among small regional active and political figures to show solidarity to Solidarity with Tundu Lissu. Lissu is met with several charges, and betrayal for the statements that were allegedly in a strong political rally.

However, Lissu is not alone in the region with repression for political action. Neighbor Uganda, opposition Kizza Besicye’s leader is confronted with the same charges, opposed to a political authorities in the same way and against the leading political power.

Meanwhile, in 2024 in Kenya, after the protest of the anti-financial law project amazes the country. In the absence of a well-organized political opposition, which is stable by frenetic bargaining Horse trade, protesters and young activists became an informal political opposition in the country.

Young people organized the basis of political violence in the protests that were killed 82 people. After the abduction and abduction of protesters, emergency groups and active groups claimed that some people were undecided despite the lawsuit of President William Ruton.

Burundi, people continue to live in the possibility of war with the shadow of the police and fear the probability of war with its expanding neighbors.

Rwanda, several opposition figures trying to escape against President Paul Kagame were arrested on various charges. The neighboring democratic Republic of Congo was caught between a perennial war and political crisis.

How did we get to this situation? The simplest answer is that we allowed the elections to conflict with democracy, and the harmful intention of the use of force was made from this faith. The reality of the establishment of healthy democratic systems is more complicated than voting for each four or five years, and true democracy requires hours of time.

A meaningful democracy is strongly involved in local government, transparent political parties, as well as institutional accountability and participation in the region in the last two decades.

Power, executive executive power, classification of legislative documents and “Naomba Serakali” (“I want the government” (“I will want a government”) high level.

Parliaments authorize the legitimacy of a popular voice, but repeatedly submit to the executive. Proof of this can be easily found in the experience of women trying to work for the office in the region.

As I should start a costpoint to start the king in a prospect that will be women, women in 2018, and in 2017, starting in a prospect that started in the political parties. Those who often remain out of competitive election periods. As a result, save constitutional quotas, reducing the decline in women’s election policy decreased – reducing the democratic space reduced a canary.

Meanwhile, parties have mastered the art of gender optical management, the substitute for a real change, disputes on democracy by reducing the periodic performance of voting. Thus, Samia Suluhu’s presidency in Tanzania is not a sign of improving democracy, but the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi, a political machine selected by the least controversial candidate, which continues to control the country. Similarly, the dominance of women in the parliament of the Rwandan does not progress for women, but the ability to choose candidates who are less likely to push the ruling party back.

After this candidates were washed through a political party car, the more legislature enters the political kingpower compared to voters. This is how Kingpi is in the government or in the opposition.

In Kenya, the opposition candidates such as Edwin Sifuna, who sang the rights of protesters on June 2024, 2025, because the party Kingpin is the only guaranteed road with the power of a party and blind leap in this system.

Uganda is purchased with government cars and loans of politicians, and silenced by the disappearance of prison, imprisonment, imprisonment and the disappearance of the state critics. The net effect is that the election has become a performance that has slowed its true effects over time.

A fast scan of global politics This will confirm that this is not an unparalleled East African problem. The same crisis is formed in the United States, especially after the cancellation of a democratic party by the Democratic Party policy and a democratic party by the Democratic Party.

However, the events of the last week show that the state’s whims are an additional risk layer due to the doubt and blind loyalty of security services – the US leadership is something that it uses to enter the immigration and customs security agency.

The long-term solution to this situation is that ordinary people have changed the quality of people in the ranks in politics and deal with localized democratic practices of local people. Of course, people are simply trying to experience the enemy political and economic climate, but in a long run, the citizen creates new access points for the civic badge.

Democracy, which is controlled by more people in the management of civil institutions such as schools, hospitals, trade unions, cooperatives, neighborhood associations and even sports and social clubs, is strengthening.

The elections are then culminated regular exercises of a separate process that floats above the reality of people’s life.

In parallel, Onus is in the legislative African laws in East Africa to find their teeth and goals. Their work is not political to live or pursue political careers. Their work is to defend the people who choose them, to protect the executors and defend the integrity of the Constitution.

Meanwhile, our people should listen to the call of all this, all this, the Nigerian Union Zuban Union Tacudeen Abdul-Raheem: “Do not be planted in Africa,” and try to reset democracy from the ground.

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