Uganda

Uganda

Population: 35.6 mn.
GDP: 20.5 bn.
Debt: 3.0 bn.
Overview:

Factions in the National Resistance Movement will grow amid the race to succeed President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The opposition will try to exploit the rifts. Progress on oil production will continue slowly. Kampala will try to placate Western states to end the aid strike but corruption is deep-seated. Anti-gay laws and the support for the M23 rebels in Congo-Kinshasa will not help.

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  • Vol 54 No 7
  •  29th March 2013

West divided on aid scandal

Doubts remain as to whether President Museveni’s government has really ended the diversion of cash which prompted last year’s aid cuts

  • Vol 54 No 4
  •  15th February 2013

Spring in opposition’s step

New opposition leader and liberation fighter Mugisha Muntu tries to galvanise the ranks as he senses growing disarray in the ruling party

  • Vol 54 No 3
  •  1st February 2013

Coup calls

If President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had wanted to push the dissident young members of parliament in his party back into line with talk of a military coup, he must be disappointed. In fact, it has just stirred up more dissent within the governing National ...

  • Vol 53 No 22
  •  2nd November 2012

Uganda accused

A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended

  • Vol 53 No 21
  •  19th October 2012

M23’s other parent

Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this news was quickly followed by the leak by United Nations officials in New York of...

  • Vol 53 No 14
  •  6th July 2012

Attacking civil society

The power of civic activists to get people on to the streets worries an already paranoid government

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Wars of the succession

Parliament becomes an arena for the increasingly tense contest for the presidential succession

  • Vol 53 No 8
  •  13th April 2012

The LRA is down but not out

Small bands of the Lord’s Resistance Army are going into eastern Congo and employing new methods to terrorise local people

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Al Shabaab’s waiting game

Regardless of the recent defeats of Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen, senior African Union Mission in Somalia commanders privately admit that the next phase of military operations is fraught with potential difficulties. Since forcing Al Shabaab out of M...

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Uganda's profits of war

Uganda’s political and military elite is content with a long conflict in Somalia, while its Ethiopian and Kenyan allies prefer as short an involvement as possible.

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