Vol 47 No 21 | UGANDA Riek's battalion 20th October 2006 The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandone...
Vol 47 No 19 | UGANDA Peace postponed 22nd September 2006 There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-K...
Vol 47 No 17 | SUDANUGANDA Troubled talks 25th August 2006 The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capi...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Opening broadside 21st July 2006 The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process Opening peace talks with Kampala last week, Lord's Resistance Army representatives began with a broadside against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government. It underlined the ...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North 21st July 2006 When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear at F...
Vol 47 No 12 | UGANDA Old faces 9th June 2006 A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty democracy 'The Movement is dead! Long live the Movement!' This might have been a suitable refrain as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's new government went to work in Uganda's Eighth Parliam...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANUGANDA Taping the LRA 26th May 2006 South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice At the celebrations to mark the founding of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army on 16 May, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit told supporters that his fledglin...
Vol 47 No 7 | UGANDA Khartoum's long arm 31st March 2006 The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well A spate of attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army over the last two months on the region around Yei in Southern Sudan has put the international focus back on the LRA. Alongside its ...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Museveni wins, at a price 3rd March 2006 Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament but the country is divided There is no love lost between those political and personal foes, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his former friend, colleague and physician, Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe, the President's...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Losing and winning 3rd March 2006 The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy...