Uganda

Uganda

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

  • Vol 45 No 5
  • 05/03/2004

Double war

Rebel massacres and party activists are shaking the National Resistance Movement's political dominance

  • Vol 44 No 24
  • 05/12/2003

Military muscle, political problems

The government's failure to end the LRA's brutal campaign points to a growing national crisis

  • Vol 44 No 24
  • 05/12/2003

Colonel Kizza's story

In exile after claiming to have been targeted by government assassins, Colonel Kizza Besigye remains the opposition's most credible flagbearer. His strength is that he was for years an insider: a Banyankole like President Yoweri Museveni, Besigye fought w...

  • Vol 44 No 19
  • 26/09/2003

In come the vigilantes

The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA

  • Vol 44 No 19
  • 26/09/2003

Model reformer stumbles

Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget in the 2002-03 fiscal year. The picture will be much the same in 2003-04 as long as Gerald ...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

Dr Faustus, I presume

The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling

  • 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

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