President Museveni's third term bid is splitting the governing party he so patiently built
After a brief rest, the Lord's Resistance Army under Joseph Kony has slaughtered more defenceless civilians in displaced camps in northern Uganda. In Pagak on 16 May, the rebels clubbed at least 20 people to death, say the Uganda People's Defence Forces; ...
Despite his retirement from the army, President Museveni is closer to the military than ever
Rebel massacres and party activists are shaking the National Resistance Movement's political dominance
The government's failure to end the LRA's brutal campaign points to a growing national crisis
In exile after claiming to have been targeted by government assassins, Colonel Kizza Besigye remains the opposition's most credible flagbearer. His strength is that he was for years an insider: a Banyankole like President Yoweri Museveni, Besigye fought w...
The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war
against the LRA
Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget in the 2002-03 fiscal year. The picture will be much the same in 2003-04 as long as Gerald ...
The deal to give the President another term in exchange for
reform is crumbling
The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death condition in a coma... Should he encounter further life-threatening problems, resuscitat...
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