Uganda

Uganda

Population: 32.7 million
GDP: $15700 million
Debt: $14.7% of GDP
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President Yoweri Museveni will start his campaign for the 2011 elections with a national tour this year as he faces a more coherent opposition and will have to fight for the support of the influential Baganda people.

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  • 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...

  • Vol 47 No 19
  • 22/09/2006

Peace postponed

There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-Kinshasa border. Yet LRA chief Joseph Kony and deputy Vincent Otti plus ...

  • Vol 47 No 17
  • 25/08/2006

Troubled talks

The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba, despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President Ri...

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