Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA It's all in the family 13th June 2003 In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the north's c...
Vol 44 No 10 | RWANDAUGANDA High dudgeon summit 16th May 2003 None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were ag...
Vol 44 No 9 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Drummed out 2nd May 2003 Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeropla...
Vol 44 No 7 | UGANDA The great U-turn 4th April 2003 President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance of a third term at the top It was the sharpest of U-turns. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has vehemently defended his 'no-party system' of government since he won power in 1986, now wants to lift the ...
Vol 44 No 7 | RWANDAUGANDA Soccer war, Congo war 4th April 2003 So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between...
Vol 43 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Proxy wars and slaughter 25th October 2002 The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed Rwanda and Uganda have pulled out their troops (AC Vol 43 No 19) but the proxy war continues in eastern Congo. On 15 August in Luanda, Uganda agreed with Congo-Kinshasa to withdraw...
Vol 43 No 16 | UGANDA Don't praise the lord 9th August 2002 Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them If it was the last kick of a dying horse, it was a powerful one. At daybreak on 5 August, a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony attacked a refugee camp at Aco...
Vol 43 No 16 | UGANDA Soldiers of tomorrow 9th August 2002 The Uganda People's Defence Force is under siege at home and abroad. Its mediation in Sudan looks even less credible than its attempts to dig its way out of its greedy and failing ...
Vol 43 No 15 | UGANDA Henry's parachute 26th July 2002 Was Brigadier Henry Tumukunde pushed out as director of the Internal Security Organisation or did he jump? Sources close to President Yoweri Museveni insist that Tumukunde, an aloo...
Vol 43 No 9 | SUDANUGANDA The Carlos card 3rd May 2002 The odd agreement between Khartoum and Kampala allowing Ugandan troops into Sudan to attack the Lord's Resistance Army was renewed last week till mid-May. For both sides this has m...