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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 14
  •  9th July 2010

The opposition on parade

Kizza Besigye, Olara Otunnu, Norbert Mao, Hussein Kyanjo and Abed Bwanika.

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

A taxing compromise

This month, President Yoweri Museveni has approved a face-saving deal to break the impasse over the US$360 million in capital gains tax that his government is claiming from the Jersey-registered Heritage Oil after it sold its licence shares in the Lake Al...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

The north makes its stand

The prospect of the opposition uniting behind a single candidate against President Museveni in next year’s election is diminishing

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

The next oil scramble

A new battle for oil blocks has started in the troubled north-east after France’s Total announced that it was seeking acreage in the Lake Albert basin, in alliance with Ireland’s fast-growing Tullow Oil (AC Vol 51 No 3). That sets the scene for a repeat o...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Training the trainers

Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

A King takes on the President

The Baganda people and their monarch are turning on the government and hurting its election prospects

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 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, was pr...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 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 the ...

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 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 an...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 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 ...

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