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Uganda

Population: 29.9 million
GNI: $8900 million
Debt: $4300 million
Overview: Deteriorating relations with Buganda over land reform, worsening corruption, failing peace negotiations with the Lord's Resistance Army and fallout from Kenya's crisis presage a difficult year for President Yoweri Museveni.

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  • Vol 47 No 4
  • 17/02/2006

Judges and generals

The election campaign of Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye has been seriously disrupted by spurious charges of treason and terrorism, both in the High Court and before a General Court Martial.

  • Vol 47 No 3
  • 03/02/2006

Losers can win too

President Museveni is surprised to face the strongest challenge yet to his 20-year rule

  • Vol 47 No 3
  • 03/02/2006

Making the President nervous

Only President Yoweri Museveni's die-hard supporters expect him to win many votes in northern Uganda, where he is blamed for failing to end the 18-year insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army. The ruling party's bigwigs are far more concerned about s...

  • Vol 46 No 25
  • 16/12/2005

Mr and Mrs

Not content with being the Mother of the Nation and the leading pro-abstinence and anti-condom campaigner, Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni is penetrating the political arena. Mama Janet, as she is widely known, is standing against the opposition MP...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Tears, fears and a martyr

The arrest of the strongest opposition candidate for the presidency left everyone weeping

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Homecomings

A corpse and an ambitious politician return to upset President Museveni's re-election plans

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Museveni's military

Too many observers think of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) as an ill-disciplined bunch of ghost soldiers flying about in junk helicopters. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hopes that the reshuffle he announced on 24 October will change that ...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  • 21/10/2005

Khartoum's game

Despite energetic denials, Khartoum continues to help Kony and the LRA

  • Vol 46 No 20
  • 07/10/2005

Congo connection

Where next for the Lord 's Resistance Army? Some 400 LRA fighters under deputy commander 'Brigadier' Vincent Otti crossed into north-east Congo-Kinshasa last month from Southern Sudan. But Congo will not be a safe haven.

  • Vol 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

Moving the Movement

The threat of a boycott may be the opposition's most powerful weapon in next year's elections

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