Vol 54 No 7 | UGANDA West divided on aid scandal 29th March 2013 Doubts remain as to whether President Museveni’s government has really ended the diversion of cash which prompted last year’s aid cuts Multilateral donors may be ready to resume aid payments by the end of the year, say sources in Kampala familiar with the internal debate among Western officials involved....
Vol 54 No 4 | UGANDA Spring in opposition’s step 15th February 2013 New opposition leader and liberation fighter Mugisha Muntu tries to galvanise the ranks as he senses growing disarray in the ruling party A tough police and military crackdown is stifling attempts to reproduce the success of the Walk to Work street protests led by Kizza Besigye, the then leader...
Vol 54 No 3 | UGANDA Coup calls 1st February 2013 If President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had wanted to push the dissident young members of parliament in his party back into line with talk of a military coup, he...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 12 | UGANDA Tress Bucyanayandi 2nd October 2013 Minister of Agriculture, Uganda Agriculture accounted for 23.4% of Uganda’s gross domestic product in 2011 and now the government has given Chinese companies the green light to set up operations in the...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | UGANDACHINA One-horse race 2nd May 2013 The government cancelled the bidding for Uganda’s biggest hydropower project, the Karuma Falls Dam, pending a procurement review, after the selected bidder lied to the Ministry of Energy.
Vol 53 No 22 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Uganda accused 2nd November 2012 A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended The United Nations Group of Experts on eastern Congo-Kinshasa has indicted the Ugandan government as co-sponsor of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebellion in Kivu alongside Rwanda....
Vol 53 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23’s other parent 19th October 2012 Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this...
Vol 53 No 14 | UGANDA Attacking civil society 6th July 2012 The power of civic activists to get people on to the streets worries an already paranoid government Government attempts to silence criticism by non-governmental and civil society organisations is escalating. The Internal Affairs Minister, Hilary Onek, is threatening to de-register Oxfam and the Uganda Land...
Vol 53 No 11 | UGANDA Wars of the succession 25th May 2012 Parliament becomes an arena for the increasingly tense contest for the presidential succession A third leadership hopeful, Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, has joined Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, the governing National Resistance Movement Secretary General, and the Justice Minister,...
Vol 53 No 8 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA The LRA is down but not out 13th April 2012 Small bands of the Lord’s Resistance Army are going into eastern Congo and employing new methods to terrorise local people Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have left Central African Republic for Garamba, in Orientale Province in north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They are now concentrating on theft and looting rather than...