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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 44 No 19
  •  26th September 2003

Model reformer stumbles

Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget in the 2002-03 fiscal year. The picture will be much the same in 2003-04 as long as Gerald ...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  •  12th September 2003

Dr Faustus, I presume

The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling

  • Vol 44 No 16
  •  8th August 2003

Father and son

The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death condition in a coma... Should he encounter further life-threatening problems, resuscitat...

  • Vol 44 No 12
  •  13th June 2003

Kazini goes back to school

The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military

  • Vol 44 No 12
  •  13th June 2003

It's all in the family

In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the north's capital, to devise ways of ending the insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Ar...

  • Vol 44 No 10
  •  16th May 2003

High dudgeon summit

None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were agreed to verify claims that each neighbour is training rebel militias to fig...

  • Vol 44 No 9
  •  2nd May 2003

Drummed out

Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeroplanes for Entebbe the following day. Locals loudly cheered their farewell par...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  •  4th April 2003

The great U-turn

President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance of a third term at the top

  • Vol 44 No 7
  •  4th April 2003

Soccer war, Congo war

So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between Kampala and Kigali in Africa's Cup of Nations soccer tournament on 29 Marc...

  • Vol 43 No 21
  •  25th October 2002

Proxy wars and slaughter

The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed

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