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Uganda
Population:	34.0 mn.
GDP:	17.0 bn.
Debt:	1.1 bn.
Overview:	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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Found 116 articles.

Vol 46 No 3
4th February 2005

Operation Kisanja

A proposed third term for the President upsets Ugandans' hopes for peace

Vol 46 No 3
4th February 2005

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. arid...

Vol 45 No 19
24th September 2004

Now for the contest

Museveni wants many parties, as long as his own provides the president

Vol 45 No 11
28th May 2004

People's power

President Museveni's third term bid is splitting the governing party he so patiently built

Vol 45 No 11
28th May 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
14th May 2004

The family khaki

Despite his retirement from the army, President Museveni is closer to the military than ever

Vol 45 No 5
5th March 2004

Double war

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

Vol 44 No 24
5th December 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
5th December 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
26th September 2003

In come the vigilantes

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

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