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...
Vol 53 No 5 | UGANDA Rebels with a cause 2nd March 2012 The latest intake of MPs from Museveni’s party is causing ructions over oil and corruption as jockeying starts for the presidential succession A group of truculent members of parliament in the governing National Resistance Movement has forced ministers to resign and is obliging President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to contemplate sacking...
Vol 59 No 19 | UGANDA Museveni to tough it out 28th September 2018 The President is taking no chances and making no concessions. He is mobilising 24,000 reservists as popular protests continue Thousands of new security personnel are being deployed to meet the threat of mass civil unrest after the triumphant return to Kampala of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine...
Vol 48 No 7 | UGANDA Rough justice 30th March 2007 The government raids the courts, punishes the media and buys friendship with Washington The high drama of the military raid on the High Court in Kampala and the subsequent judges' strike is beginning to die down. On 16 March, President Yoweri...
Vol 37 No 20 | UGANDA Four-wheel drive 4th October 1996 A border war and a budget deficit are the burdens on Uganda's 'no-party' democracy The honeymoon is over. The bills are now coming in for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni' s election campaign and the promises made in the heat of it. And...