Uganda

The disputes over the Lake Albert oil licences and taxes which oil companies owe the government show no sign of ending. Heritage Oil should have paid tax to the government when...

Uganda faces a harsh economic hangover because so many state resources were used to win a decisive victory for President Yoweri Museveni, 67, in 18 February’s elections. Museve...

The biggest excitement in the 18 February presidential and parliamentary elections is the electoral arithmetic (AC Vol 51 No 1). Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye will never ha...

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...

The tussle between the government and the oil companies wanting to exploit Lake Albert’s oil fields has hit deadlock over US$404 million which the government says is owed in capita...

The political stakes in the oil issue are high, not least because President Yoweri Museveni is facing his most serious electoral challenge. However, Colonel Kizza Besigye, preside...

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 on 26...

President Yoweri Museveni will run for a fourth term after the ruling National Resistance Movement elected him as its candidate – unopposed – on 12 September. The NRM primaries hel...

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 ...

When the wealthy Foreign Affairs Minister was appointed in 2003, President Yoweri Museveni had just won a disputed election and was amending the constitution to run again.