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- 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
- Vol 46 No 18
- 09/09/2005
Clamped
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...
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