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Uganda
Population: 34.0 mn.
GDP: 17.0 bn.
Debt: 1.1 bn.
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Kizza Besigye's political challenge dwindles while dissent grows in the NRM, where factions are plotting over the succession to President Yoweri Museveni, who still eyes an East African presidential role. Progress on oil and gas production. 

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  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Showing who's boss

President Yoweri Museveni's plan to sell a piece of the Mabira Forest to the Mehta Group for sugar production has triggered violence by demonstrators and security services.

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

Rough justice

The government raids the courts, punishes the media and buys friendship with Washington

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

The wealth in common

Roads and street lights are being repaired and buildings painted in Kampala for November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Bigger potholes might be left by jostling for lucrative contracts.

  • Vol 47 No 21
  •  20th October 2006

Riek's battalion

The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandoned last month because they had no protection from Uganda's soldiers there. T...

  • Vol 47 No 19
  •  22nd September 2006

Peace postponed

There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-Kinshasa border. Yet LRA chief Joseph Kony and deputy Vincent Otti plus seve...

  • Vol 47 No 17
  •  25th August 2006

Troubled talks

The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba, despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President Riek M...

  • Vol 47 No 15
  •  21st July 2006

Opening broadside

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

  • Vol 47 No 15
  •  21st July 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 the ...

  • Vol 47 No 12
  •  9th June 2006

Old faces

A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty democracy

  • Vol 47 No 11
  •  26th May 2006

Taping the LRA

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

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