Vol 62 No 2 | UGANDA Iron fist carries the day 21st January 2021 Brutal suppression of the opposition and voter intimidation won President Yoweri Museveni another term of office Although President Yoweri Museveni won the presidential election with 59% of the vote on a 57% turnout according to the electoral commission, over a dozen of the ruling National Re...
Vol 52 No 1 | UGANDA He’s back on top again 7th January 2011 President Museveni seems set for another win but with a stronger, more fractious parliament and the usual oil problems The opposition parties have neither the will nor the capacity seriously to challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s government in the elections due in mid-February. Yet the opposition...
Vol 43 No 16 | UGANDA Don't praise the lord 9th August 2002 Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them If it was the last kick of a dying horse, it was a powerful one. At daybreak on 5 August, a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony attacked a refugee camp at Aco...
Vol 40 No 25 | UGANDA Muddy 17th December 1999 Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Y...
Vol 51 No 18 | UGANDA Museveni’s ambitions, American reservations 10th September 2010 The President’s enthusiasm for an onslaught in Somalia is not shared by US officials In the wake of the Al Shabaab bombings on 11 July in Kampala, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni expected a massive boost in funding from Washington for the regional military effort ...