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- Vol 51 No 17
- 27/08/2010
Otunnu objects
With only six months before Ugandans go to the polls, opposition parties are mired in disagreement after Olara Otunnu made a bid to undermine attempts to field a unity candidate in the 2011 presidential election. The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Pres...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Fighting on a new front
The United States’ containment policy has failed and, with its regional ambitions strengthened, Al Shabaab is back on the front foot
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Secretive Shabaab
Al Shabaab’s political tactics and internal dynamics are deliberately, systematically opaque, on the classic Islamist model. It is both nationalist and avowedly part of the global jihad. Shabaab’s fighters may number anything between 3,000 and 10,000 and ...
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
The Museveni machine grinds into gear
The opposition unites, but not entirely – the president and his party will be hard to beat at next year’s elections
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
The opposition on parade
Kizza Besigye, Olara Otunnu, Norbert Mao, Hussein Kyanjo and Abed Bwanika.
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
A taxing compromise
This month, President Yoweri Museveni has approved a face-saving deal to break the impasse over the US$360 million in capital gains tax that his government is claiming from the Jersey-registered Heritage Oil after it sold its licence shares in the Lak...
- Vol 51 No 6
- 19/03/2010
The north makes its stand
The prospect of the opposition uniting behind a single candidate against President Museveni in next year’s election is diminishing
- Vol 51 No 6
- 19/03/2010
The next oil scramble
A new battle for oil blocks has started in the troubled north-east after France’s Total announced that it was seeking acreage in the Lake Albert basin, in alliance with Ireland’s fast-growing Tullow Oil (AC Vol 51 No 3). That sets the scene for a repeat o...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Training the trainers
Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
A King takes on the President
The Baganda people and their monarch are turning on the government and hurting its election prospects
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