20 March 2024
Cartoonist Jimmy Spire Ssentongo threatened over online campaign against corruption in Uganda
Ugandan cartoonist Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, member of the Cartooning for Peace network, has received death threats after launching an anti-corruption campaign on X (formerly Twitter) – #UgandaParliamentExhibition – calling Parliament to account. This is not the first time that Spire has highlighted dysfunctions in his country through social media campaigns that have earned him threats. But this time, Spire’s fears seem to have gone up a notch. He said that Parliament had requested access to his communications data from the Ugandan Communications Commission.
