Hardline measures against dissident soldiers and journalists point
to government nervousness before March's elections . In power
since 1986, President Yoweri Museveni will contest again,
after parliament lifted the term limits on the presidency. Retire...
Everyone claimed victory in the referendum of 28 July (AC Vol
46 No 15). The National Resistance Movement has been strengthened
because it won the 'Yes' vote it had advocated.
In a confused campaign, the referendum on multiparty politics is too close to call
Parliament's support on 28 June for a constitutional bill has
unblocked the limit on how many terms a president can serve. It
opens the way for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's candidacy
and probable victory in a presidential election due in March.
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The government has failed to push a crucial bill through a
parliament full of loyal members (AC Vol 46 No 8). The bill would
have authorised a referendum on the return to multiparty politics,
banned since President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power
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Former President Obote's promised return gives life to Museveni's
re-election campaign
If the G6 parties can coalesce around a single presidential
candidate, they will become the most powerful opposition group.
The G6 components are the Free Movement, Justice Forum (Jeema)
and four main established parties.
A proposed third term for the President upsets Ugandans' hopes
for peace
President Yoweri Museveni's government in Kampala remains
locked in a bloody counterinsurgency campaign against the Lord's
Resistance Army, a fierce and brutal pseudo-Christian cult backed,
opportunistically, by Sudan's National Islamic Front regime.
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Museveni wants many parties, as long as his own provides the president
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