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 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...

  • Vol 46 No 16
  • 05/08/2005

Prizes for all

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.

  • Vol 46 No 15
  • 22/07/2005

A tree, a house, a president

In a confused campaign, the referendum on multiparty politics is too close to call

  • Vol 46 No 14
  • 08/07/2005

Another third term

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. ...

  • Vol 46 No 9
  • 29/04/2005

Parliament comes alive

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 ...

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Milton stays lost

Former President Obote's promised return gives life to Museveni's re-election campaign

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Who wants to tackle Museveni?

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.

  • Vol 46 No 3
  • 04/02/2005

Operation Kisanja

A proposed third term for the President upsets Ugandans' hopes for peace

  • Vol 46 No 3
  • 04/02/2005

Pass the ammunition

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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