{"id":83712,"date":"2026-01-18T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83712"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:07:22","slug":"africas-ruthless-despots-just-wont-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/18\/africas-ruthless-despots-just-wont-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s ruthless despots just won\u2019t go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UrjUH.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=202&amp;y=197&amp;s=756&amp;d=224\" alt=\"The faces of African authoritarianism (L-R): Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso and Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda\u2019s capital,\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Kampala<\/a>, at least a truckload of armed men never ceased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/africa-s-ruthless-despots-just-won-t-go-away\/ar-AA1UrKky?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=c91f2957e3634146ce50f7747edd23a0&amp;ei=63\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda\u2019s capital,\u00a0Kampala,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Paul-Biya.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83713,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83712\/revisions\/83713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}