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Uganda
Population: 34.0 mn.
GDP: 17.0 bn.
Debt: 1.1 bn.
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Kizza Besigye's political challenge dwindles while dissent grows in the NRM, where factions are plotting over the succession to President Yoweri Museveni, who still eyes an East African presidential role. Progress on oil and gas production. 

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  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Tax deduction

As the political fallout over corruption spreads in Kampala, the legal battles are getting messier over US$434 million in tax which Kampala says oil companies owe it (AC Vol 52 No 21, Oil in troubled waters).

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

USA joins fight against LRA

In yet another bid to destroy Kony’s militia, President Obama sends in the Special Forces to help local armies

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Oil in troubled waters

Accusations in Kampala of high-level corporate bribery are as much about politics as business

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Big cabinet, bigger problems

President Museveni’s post-election reshuffle is more a political balancing act than a coherent response to unrest over high prices and shortages

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Two leaders, two parties

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni spent months – and US$1.3 million – planning his inauguration on 12 May only for a gatecrasher to spoil the party. While fanfares sounded and banners flew at Kololo airstrip, with heads of state Robert Mugabe, Goodluck Jon...

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Opposition works the walk

Following Museveni’s easy re-election, the security forces are making mass arrests and Kampala’s streets resound with gunfire and tear gas

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Taxation without legal representation

The disputes over the Lake Albert oil licences and taxes which oil companies owe the government show no sign of ending. Heritage Oil should have paid tax to the government when it sold its exploration blocks to Tullow Oil, says the government. When i...

  • Vol 52 No 5
  •  4th March 2011

Power at a price

Museveni’s victory was the result of astute tactics, state funding and a divided and despondent opposition

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Cairo tactics

The biggest excitement in the 18 February presidential and parliamentary elections is the electoral arithmetic (AC Vol 51 No 1). Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye will never have a better chance of forcing a second-round run-off by bringing President ...

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

He’s back on top again

President Museveni seems set for another win but with a stronger, more fractious parliament and the usual oil problems

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