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Uganda
Population: 34.0 mn.
GDP: 17.0 bn.
Debt: 1.1 bn.
Overview:

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 50 No 8
  •  17th April 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 billio...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Out with an editor

The once media-friendly President has lost patience with Uganda’s fourth estate

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 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 recen...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 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
  •  4th July 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
  •  4th July 2008

The competition heats up

As oil exploration continues apace on Lake Albert, Uganda and Congo threaten to make business difficult for foreign companies

  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Hidden depths

Tensions between Kinshasa and Kampala are heating up again and oil fortunes are at stake

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

The peace deal that wasn't

The Lord’s Resistance Army resists the peacemakers’ efforts and carries on killing

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

The peace process teams

Who's who in the peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army.

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 2008

Lake Albert and the gushers

Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest is Tullo...

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