Vol 54 No 13 | UGANDA Tullow wins tax tussle 20th June 2013 Heritage Oil and Gas faces a US$313 million bill after its battle with Tullow Oil in London's High Court Tullow Oil has won its bid to recover US$313 million from Heritage Oil and Gas, following their dispute over a $434 mn. Ugandan tax bill. Tullow shared ownership...
Vol 54 No 11 | UGANDA Talking Tinyefuza 24th May 2013 Senior army officers are falling out over a succession plan which favours President Museveni’s son, Brigadier Kainerugaba Muhoozi The raid by armed police on the Daily Monitor offices in Kampala on 20 May has deepened the political crisis. The newspaper had published a private letter from...
Vol 54 No 11 | UGANDA Enter the Muhoozi generation 24th May 2013 Museveni acts to placate the troops and to disarm critics It is no coincidence that the armed forces announced their most sweeping round of promotions in over a generation just as the political furore around General David Sejusa...
Vol 54 No 7 | UGANDA West divided on aid scandal 29th March 2013 Doubts remain as to whether President Museveni’s government has really ended the diversion of cash which prompted last year’s aid cuts Multilateral donors may be ready to resume aid payments by the end of the year, say sources in Kampala familiar with the internal debate among Western officials involved....
Vol 54 No 4 | UGANDA Spring in opposition’s step 15th February 2013 New opposition leader and liberation fighter Mugisha Muntu tries to galvanise the ranks as he senses growing disarray in the ruling party A tough police and military crackdown is stifling attempts to reproduce the success of the Walk to Work street protests led by Kizza Besigye, the then leader...
Vol 54 No 3 | UGANDA Coup calls 1st February 2013 If President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had wanted to push the dissident young members of parliament in his party back into line with talk of a military coup, he...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 12 | UGANDA Tress Bucyanayandi 2nd October 2013 Minister of Agriculture, Uganda Agriculture accounted for 23.4% of Uganda’s gross domestic product in 2011 and now the government has given Chinese companies the green light to set up operations in the...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | UGANDACHINA One-horse race 2nd May 2013 The government cancelled the bidding for Uganda’s biggest hydropower project, the Karuma Falls Dam, pending a procurement review, after the selected bidder lied to the Ministry of Energy.
Vol 53 No 22 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Uganda accused 2nd November 2012 A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended The United Nations Group of Experts on eastern Congo-Kinshasa has indicted the Ugandan government as co-sponsor of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebellion in Kivu alongside Rwanda....
Vol 53 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23’s other parent 19th October 2012 Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this...