Uganda

Uganda

Population: 29.9 million
GNI: $8900 million
Debt: $4300 million
Overview: Deteriorating relations with Buganda over land reform, worsening corruption, failing peace negotiations with the Lord's Resistance Army and fallout from Kenya's crisis presage a difficult year for President Yoweri Museveni.

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  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Father and son

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...

  • Vol 44 No 12
  • 13/06/2003

Kazini goes back to school

The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military

  • Vol 44 No 12
  • 13/06/2003

It's all in the family

In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the north's capital, to devise ways of ending the insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Ar...

  • Vol 44 No 10
  • 16/05/2003

High dudgeon summit

None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were agreed to verify claims that each neighbour is training rebel militias to fig...

  • Vol 44 No 9
  • 02/05/2003

Drummed out

Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeroplanes for Entebbe the following day. Locals loudly cheered their farewell par...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

The great U-turn

President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance of a third term at the top

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

Soccer war, Congo war

So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between Kampala and Kigali in Africa's Cup of Nations soccer tournament on 29 Marc...

  • Vol 43 No 21
  • 25/10/2002

Proxy wars and slaughter

The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed

  • Vol 43 No 16
  • 09/08/2002

Don't praise the lord

Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them

  • Vol 43 No 16
  • 09/08/2002

Soldiers of tomorrow

The Uganda People's Defence Force is under siege at home and abroad. Its mediation in Sudan looks even less credible than its attempts to dig its way out of its greedy and failing intervention in Congo-Kinshasa. Joseph Kony's rebels have again turned Acho...

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