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Uganda

Population: 29.9 million
GNI: $8900 million
Debt: $4300 million
Overview: Deteriorating relations with Buganda over land reform, worsening corruption, failing peace negotiations with the Lord's Resistance Army and fallout from Kenya's crisis presage a difficult year for President Yoweri Museveni.

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  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Kony causes trouble again

The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

The competition heats up

As oil exploration continues apace on Lake Albert, Uganda and Congo threaten to make business difficult for foreign companies

  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

Hidden depths

Tensions between Kinshasa and Kampala are heating up again and oil fortunes are at stake

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

The peace deal that wasn't

The Lord’s Resistance Army resists the peacemakers’ efforts and carries on killing

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

The peace process teams

Who's who in the peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army.

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Lake Albert and the gushers

Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest is T...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

The ex-revolutionary front

Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than might at first appear

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

On the brink of a deal

A faction of the LRA is ready to come to terms with Museveni; the rest will move on to cause mayhem elsewhere

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

Regal rivalry

The Commonwealth summit last week provided an unrivalled opportunity for local monarchists to promote their own political agenda through unabashed adoration of Britain's octogenarian sovereign, portrayed in local newspapers as the world's greatest fash...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Problematic peace as the Commonwealth meets

The government wants a peace deal to show its guests but the rebels do not want to go to gaol

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