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	Uganda
Population:	45.85m
GDP:	$40.53bn
Debt:	51.3% of GDP (2023 forecast)

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Vol 62 No 13 |

UGANDA

A slightly bigger tent

24th June 2021

In the febrile post-election climate, President Yoweri Museveni's attempts to co-opt his political rivals and dissidents are proving tortuous for the ruling National Resistance Mov...

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Vol 62 No 12 |

KENYA
TANZANIA
UGANDA

East Africa aims to spend its way out of the pandemic recession

11th June 2021

Regional recovery plan depends on more borrowing and tougher tax enforcement

Budget day on 10 June in East Africa meant 'borrowing', as the region's three biggest economies unveiled their tax and spending plans for the coming fiscal year. All are planning t...

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Vol 62 No 12 |

UGANDA

Motorbike killers strike again

10th June 2021

The attempted killing of one of Museveni’s most valued officers and ministers focuses attention on his cabinet appointments

The 1 June attempt to assassinate Katumba Wamala in his car, which wounded him and claimed the lives of his daughter and his driver, is being seen in Kampala as a political act, ev...

Vol 62 No 12 |

TANZANIA
UGANDA
OIL AND GAS

Pipeline may go nowhere

10th June 2021

Exporting Uganda’s oil to Tanzania and beyond looks less viable as high costs and the turn from fossil fuels become reality

'Deal Done', trumpeted the loyalist press in Dar es Salaam after President Samia Suluhu Hassan and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed agreements with the East African Crude...

Vol 62 No 11 |

UGANDA

Cracks in the ruling party

27th May 2021

The government flounders as condemnation of rights abuses grows along with the popularity of oppositionist Bobi Wine

President Yoweri Museveni may be closing on a fourth decade in power but all is far from well in his restive ruling party as members wait for him to announce his next cabinet, foll...

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Vol 62 No 10 |

UGANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Kampala takes on another military mission which could cool bilateral tensions over gold-looting in Ituri province

18th May 2021

Kampala seeks a trade-off with Kinshasa – military help and intel in exchange for a resolution of legal disputes

Ugandan troops have re–entered Congo-Kinshasa, officially at least, for the first time since the UN and African Union-brokered truce in 2002 that led to the formal exit of fo...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

TANZANIA
UGANDA

Last fling for fossil fuels in East Africa in $10 billion oil and pipeline project

19th April 2021

France's Total and China's CNOOC lead the biggest new oil development in Africa as investors assess options as the great energy transition speeds up

Fifteen years after oil was found in commercial quantities on its western border, Uganda is set to become one of Africa's bigger producers with a target of 230,000 barrels a day, d...

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Vol 62 No 6 |

UGANDA

The opposition plans its pushback

12th March 2021

President Museveni is maintaining heavy security on the street as concern mounts over treatment of detainees

Tension is running high in Kampala and Jinja over a month after President Yoweri Museveni lifted restrictions on social media and the internet imposed ahead of the 14 January elect...

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Vol 62 No 5 |

UGANDA

Western officials weigh regional security role as calls grow for tougher measures against Kampala

8th March 2021

Critics call for Museveni's officials to be sanctioned over election and political violence as opposition prepares more protests

Although National Unity Platform leader Bobi Wine dropped his Supreme Court challenge against the official declaration that President Yoweri Museveni had won 59% of the votes in th...

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Vol 62 No 3 |

UGANDA

As Bobi Wine appeals against result, President Museveni plays nationalist card with European critics

5th February 2021

Until now Western governments have backed the President as a regional security ally and ignored local political skulduggery

President Yoweri Museveni's decision to order the suspension of the European-funded Democratic Governance Facility risks further provoking the European Union into imposing sanction...

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