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Uganda

Population: 46.84m
GDP: $55.58bn
Debt: 49.7% of GDP (2024)

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Opposition solidarity goes regional

Pro-democracy activists across the region are rallying together, but they are being met with brutal and coordinated repression by state authorities

‘Don’t try this again,’ was the message to dozens of pro-democracy activists from across East Africa as they were deported from Tanzania last year after attempting to attend...


How Museveni won in Buganda

A fierce crackdown and a fractured opposition decisively shifted the contest long before the votes were counted

President Yoweri Museveni was expected to retain power following the 15 January polls. But few anticipated he would win with such a margin or that the ruling party...


Seventh time lucky for Museveni

The only unknown in Uganda’s election is the margin of the incumbent’s violent victory, as citizens look forward with alarm to the prospect of his son’s rule

Ahead of polling day on 15 January the streets of Kampala were thronged not with citizens, but with lines of armoured personnel carriers and uniformed police and soldiers...


Hands off our minerals

Uganda was the unlikely blocker of a draft resolution proposed by Colombia and Oman on the environmentally sound management of minerals and metals at the United Nations Environment...


Museveni looks to an oil boost

Growth and exports climb ahead of national elections, as the government pins its hopes on extractive revenues

President Yoweri Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party approach January’s national elections with the National Unity Platform (NUP) opposition targeting his record on education, health...


Marshalling anger over Museveni’s record

Opposition activists want the government’s record on schools and healthcare to be central in the 2026 election campaign

New research exposing systematic government failures across health, education, and infrastructure reveals why Uganda ranks 157th out of 193 countries in the UN’s Human Development Index in 2024-25,...


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