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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 42 No 23
  •  23rd November 2001

Brothers at war

Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala

  • Vol 42 No 23
  •  23rd November 2001

Picking a fight

British Development Minister Clare Short's intercession in Whitehall didn't stop Rwanda and Uganda banging war drums elsewhere. As Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni were signing their London statement, Rwanda's Embassy in Belgium handed its citiz...

  • Vol 42 No 16
  •  10th August 2001

Banking blunders

A political row looms after President Yoweri Museveni, his son Lieutenant Muhoozi Kainerugba and his brother Major General Salim Saleh were accused in court of being party to the fraudulent sale of the state-owned Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB).

  • Vol 42 No 7
  •  6th April 2001

Ungracious winner

President Museveni's crushing victory raises concerns about the return of personal rule

  • Vol 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 2000

After Kisangani

After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa, Kamel Morjane, told reporters in Geneva recently ...

  • Vol 41 No 9
  •  28th April 2000

One way street

President Museveni will win his referendum but at a high price

  • Vol 41 No 9
  •  28th April 2000

Who's who in the NRM

'No party politics' is producing a surprising divergence of views and interests

  • Vol 41 No 7
  •  31st March 2000

Other infernos

The government isn't winning and can't afford its wars in the west and north

  • Vol 41 No 3
  •  4th February 2000

Kaguta yekka!

President Museveni's popularity cannot hide falling support for 'no-party' politics

  • Vol 40 No 25
  •  17th December 1999

Muddy

Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Yoweri Museveni's government. Yet a series of recent incidents show, at leas...

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