Vol 64 No 6 | UGANDA Doubling down on anti-gay bill 16th March 2023 Uganda's parliament is set to pass a new law that criminalises identifying as gay, lesbian or transgender, same sex marriage, and the promotion of homosexuality.
Vol 64 No 4 | UGANDA Flying on empty 16th February 2023 Uganda Airlines wants to buy six new mid-range airliners costing nearly US$500 million despite losing $146m since its re-launch in August 2019. The aviation trade press reported that...
Vol 64 No 3 | UGANDA MPs expose airline fiasco 30th January 2023 Africa Confidential has obtained a devastating secret report on huge losses and mismanagement afflicting the flag-carrier, Uganda Airlines Uganda Airlines has lost US$137 million since it launched in August 2019, according to a parliamentary public accounts committee report which was suppressed by the Speaker of Parliament,...
Vol 64 No 3 | UGANDA Speaker accused of undermining parliament 30th January 2023 Opposition MPs say Parliament's Speaker blocked a debate on corruption in the national airline, and is President Museveni's stooge When Parliamentary Speaker, Anita Among, suppressed discussion on 17 January of a report into corruption and mismanagement at Uganda Airlines she triggered a political furore. Opposition MPs say...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 3 | UGANDATURKEY Museveni changes horses on mega rail project 24th January 2023 A Turkish company takes the baton after corruption and political intrigue held back the grand plan for a rail link to Kenya Uganda's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project to construct a 273 kilometre line from Kenya's border town of Malaba to Kampala has been dogged by over-priced contracts, incompetent officials,... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 1 | UGANDAAFRICA IN 2023 Economy deprives regime of options 5th January 2023 The succession dominates political discourse but if Museveni stands again the economy is less able to accommodate his electoral pump-priming Economic woes and conflicts in Uganda's restive regions are set to escalate during the year as tensions accumulate over whether President Yoweri Museveni will stand for re-election to...
Vol 63 No 25 | UGANDA Museveni seeks seventh heaven 8th December 2022 As the President lays the groundwork to stand for a seventh term, the struggling economy may deny him the funds for vote-winning projects Petitions for President Yoweri Museveni to stand as president in 2026 – his seventh election since seizing power in 1986 – are flooding in from all points of...
Vol 63 No 24 | UGANDA Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests 30th November 2022 The opposition leader is pushing human rights and scoring against Museveni, whose succession saga meanders on Bobi Wine, alias Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the country's biggest opposition party is rattling the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), stepping...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 24 | KENYAUGANDA Ruto and Museveni go east 29th November 2022 The latest forays by East African leaders show their region's fast-expanding economic ties with Asia Less than a fortnight after their Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China to drum up trade and investment, Presidents William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni of Kenya and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 22 | TANZANIAUGANDA Dash to oil depends on China 3rd November 2022 Uganda is hoping that Chinese funding will enable it to make good on plans to start commercially pumping its oil reserves in April 2025, as the latest part...