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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 47 No 7
  •  31st March 2006

Khartoum's long arm

The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well

  • Vol 47 No 5
  •  3rd March 2006

Museveni wins, at a price

Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament but the country is divided

  • Vol 47 No 5
  •  3rd March 2006

Losing and winning

The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy Prime Minister Moses Ali, Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees ...

  • Vol 47 No 4
  •  17th February 2006

Judges and generals

The election campaign of Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye has been seriously disrupted by spurious charges of treason and terrorism, both in the High Court and before a General Court Martial.

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

Losers can win too

President Museveni is surprised to face the strongest challenge yet to his 20-year rule

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

Making the President nervous

Only President Yoweri Museveni's die-hard supporters expect him to win many votes in northern Uganda, where he is blamed for failing to end the 18-year insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army. The ruling party's bigwigs are far more concerned about signs...

  • Vol 46 No 25
  •  16th December 2005

Mr and Mrs

Not content with being the Mother of the Nation and the leading pro-abstinence and anti-condom campaigner, Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni is penetrating the political arena. Mama Janet, as she is widely known, is standing against the opposition MP Aug...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  •  18th November 2005

Tears, fears and a martyr

The arrest of the strongest opposition candidate for the presidency left everyone weeping

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Homecomings

A corpse and an ambitious politician return to upset President Museveni's re-election plans

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Museveni's military

Too many observers think of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) as an ill-disciplined bunch of ghost soldiers flying about in junk helicopters. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hopes that the reshuffle he announced on 24 October will change that ima...

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