Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

Based in Kampala, Uganda, Soita is openDemocracy’s East Africa reporter, working on our Tracking the Backlash feminist investigative journalism project. Contact her at: khatondi.soita@opendemocracy.net

What the world can learn from radical queer aid collectives in East Africa

As US aid cuts threaten LGBTIQ lives, these collectives show how to sustain communities beyond traditional aid models

By Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 12 Mar 2025

What the world can learn from radical queer aid collectives in East Africa

De América Latina a África: Trump congela fondos y pone en riesgo a millones

Trabajadores humanitarios de América Latina y el Caribe, África y Europa advierten sobre los impactos del ataque de Trump a USAID

By Sian Norris, Angelina de los Santos and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 4 Feb 2025

De América Latina a África: Trump congela fondos y pone en riesgo a millones

‘I feared I would die’: Inside Uganda’s cervical cancer crisis

Women in rural Uganda are dying as patriarchal violence and misinformation drive cervical cancer cases

By Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 4 Feb 2025

‘I feared I would die’: Inside Uganda’s cervical cancer crisis

From Ukraine to Uganda, Trump’s aid freeze endangers millions

Humanitarian workers in Europe, Latin America and Africa tell openDemocracy about the impact of Trump’s attack on USAID

By Sian Norris, Angelina de los Santos and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 31 Jan 2025

From Ukraine to Uganda, Trump’s aid freeze endangers millions

Uganda’s partnership with BRICS+ is bad news for human rights, experts warn

Local politicians dismiss activists’ fears, saying Uganda had ‘no alternatives’ amid dwindling relationship with West

By Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 22 Jan 2025

Uganda’s partnership with BRICS+ is bad news for human rights, experts warn

Kenyan and Ugandan journalists on impact of ‘foreign agent’ attacks by governments

John-Allan Namu and Agather Atuhaire tell openDemocracy about receiving death threats and fearing being monitored

By Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 21 Oct 2024

Kenyan and Ugandan journalists on impact of ‘foreign agent’ attacks by governments

European Union funds charity that compares abortion to Holocaust

EU hands €1.2m to charity that spreads disinformation about sexual and reproductive rights to teens and women globally

By Sian Norris and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 3 Oct 2024

European Union funds charity that compares abortion to Holocaust

Filtración de correos electrónicos revela cómo África se volvió ‘prioridad’ para actores anti-LGBTIQ

Grupos de odio y activistas conservadores estadounidenses y europeos y apelaron a la desinformación y el cabildeo para influir en el debate sobre diversidad sexual en África

By Sian Norris and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 1 Oct 2024