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...
Vol 51 No 15 | SOMALIAUGANDA Fighting on a new front 23rd July 2010 The United States’ containment policy has failed and, with its regional ambitions strengthened, Al Shabaab is back on the front foot President Yoweri Museveni welcomes African Union leaders to Kampala on 25 July playing a role he has made his own: military leader and regional policeman. Ugandan opposition politicians...
Vol 51 No 15 | SOMALIAUGANDA Secretive Shabaab 23rd July 2010 Al Shabaab’s political tactics and internal dynamics are deliberately, systematically opaque, on the classic Islamist model. It is both nationalist and avowedly part of the global jihad. Shabaab’s...
Vol 51 No 14 | UGANDA The Museveni machine grinds into gear 9th July 2010 The opposition unites, but not entirely – the president and his party will be hard to beat at next year’s elections Dissent is growing against a leader and party that have dominated the country for 24 years. On 23 August, Uganda’s diverse opposition parties aim to announce their joint...