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- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
Leaders in waiting
There are no credible challengers to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni within the top ranks of the governing National Resistance Movement. The respected Foreign Minister James Wambogo Wapakhabulo, who had been a serious candidate for the presidency, wa...
- Vol 50 No 17
- 28/08/2009
Haunting Museveni
The return of former United Nations Under-Secretary General Olara Otunnu to Uganda this month after 23 years in exile could galvanise the country's fractious opposition parties against President Yoweri Museveni's plans for another sweeping victory in ...
- Vol 50 No 13
- 26/06/2009
Unable to spend
Uganda's first female Finance Minister, Syda Namirembe Bbumba, was big on optimism with her $3.6 bn. budget, which had no tax increases. With economic growth expected to slow from 7.3% to 6%, the Minister maintained her predecessor's focus on transport...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Museveni - from grand reformer to simply surviving
With his eyes on another five-year presidential term in 2011, President Yoweri Museveni has shaken up his cabinet, touted Uganda's future as an oil exporter and pressed for a military resolution to the conflict with the LRA. The only thing that could ...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Oil without borders
The drama surrounding oil reserves on the Ugandan and Congolese sides of Lake Albert came to an end in April with London's Heritage Oil and Gas and Ireland's Tullow Oil still the main protagonists. Uganda's confirmed reserves, currently less than a bi...
- Vol 49 No 25
- 12/12/2008
Out with an editor
The once media-friendly President has lost patience with Uganda’s fourth estate
- Vol 49 No 22
- 31/10/2008
Kony's new front
As the crisis around Goma intensifies, conditions further north are deteriorating, opening up the possibility of more regional intervention. In the mineral-rich Orientale, Ugandan Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has been attacking civilians in ...
- Vol 49 No 16
- 01/08/2008
Fourth for M7
Having amended the constitution to allow him to run for a third consecutive term in 2006, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni intends to run for a fourth five-year term. His critics call it his sixth since he did not start counting until a decade into the jo...
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Kony causes trouble again
The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
The competition heats up
As oil exploration continues apace on Lake Albert, Uganda and Congo threaten to make business difficult for foreign companies
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