Uganda

Uganda

Population: 35.6 mn.
GDP: 20.5 bn.
Debt: 3.0 bn.
Overview:

Factions in the National Resistance Movement will grow amid the race to succeed President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The opposition will try to exploit the rifts. Progress on oil production will continue slowly. Kampala will try to placate Western states to end the aid strike but corruption is deep-seated. Anti-gay laws and the support for the M23 rebels in Congo-Kinshasa will not help.

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  • Vol 48 No 11
  •  25th May 2007

In the front ranks

With the President's ear, Brigadier Noble Mayombo was one of the most influential officers in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF). President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is Commander-in-Chief and after him, the top ten by rank are:

  • Vol 48 No 10
  •  11th May 2007

Noble's demise

Mourners thronged Saint John's cathedral in Fort Portal, western Uganda, on 4 May for the funeral of former military intelligence chief and presidential aide, Brigadier Noble Mayombo.

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Showing who's boss

President Yoweri Museveni's plan to sell a piece of the Mabira Forest to the Mehta Group for sugar production has triggered violence by demonstrators and security services.

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

Rough justice

The government raids the courts, punishes the media and buys friendship with Washington

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

The wealth in common

Roads and street lights are being repaired and buildings painted in Kampala for November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Bigger potholes might be left by jostling for lucrative contracts.

  • Vol 47 No 21
  •  20th October 2006

Riek's battalion

The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandoned last month because they had no protection from Uganda's soldiers there. T...

  • Vol 47 No 19
  •  22nd September 2006

Peace postponed

There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-Kinshasa border. Yet LRA chief Joseph Kony and deputy Vincent Otti plus seve...

  • Vol 47 No 17
  •  25th August 2006

Troubled talks

The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba, despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President Riek M...

  • Vol 47 No 15
  •  21st July 2006

Opening broadside

The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process

  • Vol 47 No 15
  •  21st July 2006

Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North

When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear at February's elections, in which he took his western homeland and most of the ...

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