Uganda

Uganda

Population: 32.7 million
GDP: $15700 million
Debt: $14.7% of GDP
Overview:

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 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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