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- 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. ...
- Vol 45 No 19
- 24/09/2004
Now for the contest
Museveni wants many parties, as long as his own provides the president
- Vol 45 No 11
- 28/05/2004
People's power
President Museveni's third term bid is splitting the governing party he so patiently built
- Vol 45 No 11
- 28/05/2004
The LRA fights on
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; ...
- Vol 45 No 10
- 14/05/2004
The family khaki
Despite his retirement from the army, President Museveni is closer to the military than ever
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