Vol 52 No 5 | UGANDA Power at a price 4th March 2011 Museveni’s victory was the result of astute tactics, state funding and a divided and despondent opposition 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. Museveni and the...
Vol 52 No 4 | UGANDA Cairo tactics 18th February 2011 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 have a...
Vol 52 No 1 | UGANDA He’s back on top again 7th January 2011 President Museveni seems set for another win but with a stronger, more fractious parliament and the usual oil problems 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 is likely...
Vol 51 No 23 | UGANDA Oil to play for 19th November 2010 More than a billion barrels of oil under Lake Albert may help transform the country’s economy but will not determine outcome of the 2011 elections 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...
Vol 51 No 23 | UGANDA Opposition at sea over oil 19th November 2010 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, presidential...
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...
Vol 51 No 19 | UGANDA Four and not out 24th September 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 18 | UGANDA Museveni’s ambitions, American reservations 10th September 2010 The President’s enthusiasm for an onslaught in Somalia is not shared by US officials 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...
Vol 51 No 18 | UGANDA Museveni's foreign policy team 10th September 2010 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.
Vol 51 No 17 | UGANDA Otunnu objects 27th August 2010 With only six months before Ugandans go to the polls, opposition parties are mired in disagreement after Olara Otunnu made a bid to undermine attempts to field a...