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Uganda

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

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Anti-gay law has its days in court

Judges refuse to suspend an anti-LGBT bill but void some provisions inconsistent with human rights

Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act will have at least one more round in court, and is set to move to the supreme court after the constitutional court upheld the law but struck down so...

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Bribes row rocks parliament

Speaker Among refuses to hear charges of misuse of public funds by her office as more evidence emerges of efforts to bribe the opposition

Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among has refused to answer charges that she has obtained millions of dollars' worth of expenses and allowances she was not entitled to that were first ...


Pipeline to nowhere

Two years after the final investment decision to construct the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) was taken, the US$5 billion project is limping on to an uncertain future.


Rifts threaten Bobi Wine's party

The opposition party is under pressure from not only the government but also its own socially conservative supporters

Supporters of Uganda's biggest opposition political party, the National Unity Platform (NUP) of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu 'Bobi Wine', are warning that generational jealousy and p...


China holds key to regional oil project

The fate of Albertine oil and the pipeline to export it rests on Beijing's willingness to finance the plan which flouts World Bank climate rules

The massive oil project, which includes the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – heated over its 1,443-kilometre journey to the Tanzanian coast at Tanga – continues to sti...


Museveni's divide-and-rule master-class

Having used violence to cow the opposition the President is working hard to bribe and co-opt oppositionists into irrelevance

Hard questions are being asked about the future of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the second biggest opposition party after Bobi Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP), after...


Totally unmoved

Unphased by a string of lawsuits brought by environmental groups in courts in France and elsewhere, the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has confirmed that drilling at the Tileng...


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The future of the pipeline depends on Beijing

After Standard Chartered Bank drops out of the pipeline financing consortium, China now has the casting vote

The future of the US$5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline looks increasingly dependent on China after Standard Chartered bank became the latest institution to walk away from f...

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