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- Vol 48 No 23
- 16/11/2007
Two hotels go missing
Uganda is ready for CHOGM!', shout the billboards. Traffic lights are being erected, crater-like potholes filled in, police trained - all for this month's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The government says it has spent some US$110 million o...
- Vol 48 No 23
- 16/11/2007
Guerre du lac
Commercial rivalries and contractual disputes over oil reserves in Lake Albert, which runs along the Congo-Kinshasa/ Uganda border, are heating up. Tensions between their two armies have ebbed even if the border row continues to rumble.
- Vol 48 No 20
- 05/10/2007
Doctor, doctor
How healthcare funds went astray just before an election – and the President’s allies are under investigation again
- Vol 48 No 11
- 25/05/2007
Room at the top
The death of the President's closest military advisor opens a quiet succession contest
- Vol 48 No 11
- 25/05/2007
In the front ranks
With the President's ear, Brigadier Noble Mayombo was one of the most influential officers in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF). President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is Commander-in-Chief and after him, the top ten by rank are:
- Vol 48 No 10
- 11/05/2007
Noble's demise
Mourners thronged Saint John's cathedral in Fort Portal, western Uganda, on 4 May for the funeral of former military intelligence chief and presidential aide, Brigadier Noble Mayombo.
- Vol 48 No 9
- 27/04/2007
Showing who's boss
President Yoweri Museveni's plan to sell a piece of the Mabira Forest to the Mehta Group for sugar production has triggered violence by demonstrators and security services.
- Vol 48 No 7
- 30/03/2007
Rough justice
The government raids the courts, punishes the media and buys friendship with Washington
- Vol 48 No 7
- 30/03/2007
The wealth in common
Roads and street lights are being repaired and buildings painted in Kampala for November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Bigger potholes might be left by jostling for lucrative contracts.
- Vol 47 No 21
- 20/10/2006
Riek's battalion
The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandoned last month because they had no protection from Uganda's soldiers ther...
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