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 47 No 15
  • 21/07/2006

Opening broadside

The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process

  • Vol 47 No 15
  • 21/07/2006

Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North

When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear at February's elections, in which he took his western homeland and most of t...

  • Vol 47 No 12
  • 09/06/2006

Old faces

A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty democracy

  • Vol 47 No 11
  • 26/05/2006

Taping the LRA

South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice

  • Vol 47 No 7
  • 31/03/2006

Khartoum's long arm

The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well

  • Vol 47 No 5
  • 03/03/2006

Museveni wins, at a price

Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament but the country is divided

  • Vol 47 No 5
  • 03/03/2006

Losing and winning

The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy Prime Minister Moses Ali, Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refug...

  • 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...

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