Vol 44 No 18 | UGANDA Dr Faustus, I presume 12th September 2003 The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling A growing minority within the ruling National Resistance Movement opposes another five-year term for President Yoweri Museveni in 2006 as well as the political reforms that his supporters...
Vol 44 No 16 | UGANDA Father and son 8th August 2003 The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death...
Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA Kazini goes back to school 13th June 2003 The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military Commander of the Ugandan People's Defence Force Major General James Kazini was second only to President Yoweri Museveni in the military hierarchy. So continuing allegations of corruption against...
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...
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 agreed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...