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Uganda

Uganda

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

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Brothers at war

Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala

Rwanda and Uganda risk repeating the disaster which overtook the equally revolutionary governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose war in 1998-2000 cost over 100,000 lives and wrecked both...


Ungracious winner

President Museveni's crushing victory raises concerns about the return of personal rule

Losing is completely hypothetical. It will not happen,' President Yoweri Museveni told journalists in Kampala on the eve of the presidential election on 13 March. He did not...


After Kisangani

After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa,...


One way street

President Museveni will win his referendum but at a high price

The President is crisscrossing the country on a campaign he is bound to win. A referendum on political systems, to be held in two months' time under the...


Who's who in the NRM

'No party politics' is producing a surprising divergence of views and interests

In June President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement is defending its opposition to multi-party politics in a national referendum. It is set to win the referendum comfortably...


Other infernos

The government isn't winning and can't afford its wars in the west and north

The systematic killing and burning of more than 700 Ugandans by the leaders of a bogus Christian cult in mid-March generated some sympathy for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's...


Kaguta yekka!

President Museveni's popularity cannot hide falling support for 'no-party' politics

The ruling National Resistance Movement says it's not a political party, that political parties are unnecessary, divisive and promote ethnic separatism. It proposes a referendum, to be held...


Muddy

Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Yoweri Museveni's...


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