Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba the volatile head of Uganda's military and son of President Yoweri Museveni has launched a further purge of officers as part of efforts to consolidate his grip on the armed forces...

Muhoozi's power charge A four-time challenger to President Yoweri Museveni Kizza Besigye was abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in November last year and taken back to Uganda to face a military trial only for the Supreme Court to rule that trying civilians in military courts was unconstitutional...

All the refinery projects to date have been negotiated personally by President Yoweri Museveni whom insiders say has spent hundreds of hours poring over the details...

Although officially operating alongside the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) Uganda's General Muhoozi Kainerugaba – son of President Yoweri Museveni – travelled to Kinshasa in June where he met President Félix Tshisekedi to extend bilateral military cooperation...

With elections in January Uganda's Yoweri Museveni's unexpected public apology to ‘Uganda and especially the people of Buganda' last month appeared to be a tacit acknowledgment that the social media excesses of his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba could no longer be managed as minor diplomatic incidents – and were now a threat to traditional ethnic constituencies once the bedrock of his support...

Without that funding which President Yoweri Museveni's government is highly unlikely to cover itself Onek has warned that Uganda may have to close its borders to refugees...

This is deepening divisions at the palace and in the ruling party undermining 80-year-old President Yoweri Museveni's hold on power ahead of elections next year...

EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS CAUGHT IN POLITICAL CROSSFIRE It took an apology from President Yoweri Museveni's brother Kaleb Akandwanaho aka General Salim Saleh and intervention by State House and the Foreign Affairs Ministry to defuse a spat between General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and European diplomats in May...

At the centre of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's 20-year ambition for Uganda to become the leading energy supplier across East Africa is the plan to build a refinery near the oil fields in the Lake Albert Basin...

Uganda remains a reliable ally to Kiir but many believe President Yoweri Museveni is only interested in logging and mining concessions in Equatoria rather than South Sudan's future...

His plight serves as a warning to other opposition leaders ahead of the January 2026 presidential election where President Yoweri Museveni is expected to bid for a seventh and final term...

However Kiir blocked Odinga's access to Machar re-directing him to Entebbe to brief Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni...