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How Anita Among lost the House to the succession wars

Museveni's inner circle has moved to curb a Speaker who had built her own political machine as the question as to who succeeds him edges closer

For months, Speaker of Parliament Anita Among looked too powerful to remove. She had money, reach and an expanding network inside the ruling National Resistance Movement, but those same assets made her increasingly suspect to a presidency determined to keep parliament under its control. Not only had she rapidly expanded her political influence across the country, but she was also quietly building a financial war chest.

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