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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 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Oil to play for

More than a billion barrels of oil under Lake Albert may help transform the country’s economy but will not determine outcome of the 2011 elections

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Opposition at sea over oil

The political stakes in the oil issue are high, not least because President Yoweri Museveni is facing his most serious electoral challenge. However, Colonel Kizza Besigye, presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change, who is hoping to force...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

The bout begins

The shadow-boxing is at an end. Uganda has its eight candidates for the 18 February presidential election after two fraught days of nominations at Namboole Stadium in Kampala on 26 and 27 October. Campaigning is now in full swing. The most crucial move ha...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Four and not out

President Yoweri Museveni will run for a fourth term after the ruling National Resistance Movement elected him as its candidate – unopposed – on 12 September. The NRM primaries held across Uganda to select parliamentary and local council candidates were m...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Museveni’s ambitions, American reservations

The President’s enthusiasm for an onslaught in Somalia is not shared by US officials

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Museveni's foreign policy team

When the wealthy Foreign Affairs Minister was appointed in 2003, President Yoweri Museveni had just won a disputed election and was amending the constitution to run again.

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

Otunnu objects

With only six months before Ugandans go to the polls, opposition parties are mired in disagreement after Olara Otunnu made a bid to undermine attempts to field a unity candidate in the 2011 presidential election. The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Preside...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Fighting on a new front

The United States’ containment policy has failed and, with its regional ambitions strengthened, Al Shabaab is back on the front foot

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Secretive Shabaab

Al Shabaab’s political tactics and internal dynamics are deliberately, systematically opaque, on the classic Islamist model. It is both nationalist and avowedly part of the global jihad. Shabaab’s fighters may number anything between 3,000 and 10,000 and ...

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

The Museveni machine grinds into gear

The opposition unites, but not entirely – the president and his party will be hard to beat at next year’s elections

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