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 44 No 19 | UGANDA In come the vigilantes 26th September 2003 The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA The advance of Joseph Kony's dreaded Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) towards Soroti, the main town of eastern Teso region, has shocked the government and caught the army by...
Vol 44 No 24 | UGANDA Military muscle, political problems 5th December 2003 The government's failure to end the LRA's brutal campaign points to a growing national crisis After 18 years of the Lord's Resistance Army's murderous attacks on civilians, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni declares on 14 November that the LRA is 'nearly finished' then...
Vol 57 No 19 | UGANDA Age cannot weary him 23rd September 2016 The President is mobilising his supporters to remove the age limit so he can stay in office As memories of February's much-criticised election fade, attention turns to the next challenge facing President Yoweri Museveni: his age. Under the 2005 constitution, the upper age limit for...
Vol 51 No 22 | UGANDA The bout begins 5th November 2010 The shadow-boxing is at an end. Uganda has its eight candidates for the 18 February presidential election after two fraught days of nominations at Namboole Stadium in Kampala...