Vol 63 No 3 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
President Museveni's son and putative successor played key role in sensitive negotiations as Kampala and Kigali discuss new regional security threats
The agreement between Uganda's General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame to re-open their countries' common land border on 31 January was driven by economic lo...
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Vol 63 No 8 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
A meeting of minds on oppositionists between Kampala and Kigali could leader to a wider rapprochement
When General Muhoozi Kainerugaba ordered the deportation of Robert Mukombozi of the opposition Rwandan National Congress (RNC) this month he was confirming his authority as special...
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Vol 63 No 9 |
- RWANDA
- BRITAIN
The arrangement under which London could send asylum-seekers to Kigali would be politically useful for both countries' leaders
Britain's plan to send asylum-seekers who cross the English Channel to Rwanda was due to start next month but faces serious legal challenges which could delay its introduction for ...
Vol 50 No 8 |
- UGANDA
- ANALYSIS
With his eyes on another five-year presidential term in
2011, President Yoweri Museveni has shaken up his cabinet, touted
Uganda's future as an oil exporter and pressed for a military
resolution to the conflict with the LRA. The only thing that could
stop him from extending his 23 years of rule is infighting between
the factions of the ruling National Resistance Movement. Museveni's
long-term allies benefit from his grip on power, but a new generation
in the ruling party wants changes to policies and leadership.
President Yoweri Museveni has two main power centres. Firstly, the National Resistance Movement which still enjoys popular support across Uganda, especially in the vote-rich rural ...
Regardless of the recent defeats of Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen, senior African Union Mission in Somalia commanders privately admit that the next phase of military operations is fraught with potential difficulties. Since forcing Al Shabaab out of Mogadishu in August, five years after Amisom first came to Somalia, the Ugandan People’s Defence Force’s 5,500-strong contingent is slowly moving out to assume control of new territory beyond the capital. Any bolder moves to occupy territory further afield, however, depend on leaving currently-occupied zones to Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers and police, whose competence and reliability are in some doubt. Amisom commanders also worry because communications are scant and coordination absent with the Ethiopian forces to the south. Now that the Kenyan forces have been re-hatted as Amisom, links with them should improve.
Lack of trust in the TFG forces who have to take over the Ugandan and Burundian positions when Amisom moves out of Mogadishu is making Amisom tread cautiously. The TFG forces are ...