In August 2023 Abdul led a delegation to Uganda to meet President Yoweri Museveni to discuss energy cooperation although many suspect security cooperation over the countries' respective oppositions was probably also on the agenda given the later detention and maltreatment of Ugandan oppositionists in Tanzania...
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 with stark spending disparities favouring politicians over essential services as President Yoweri Museveni prepares to seek a seventh term in January 2026 (AC Vol 66 No 12 Muhoozi attacks regime insiders)...
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Vol 66 No 19 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
President Yoweri Museveni's son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said that any move against Salva could trigger an intervention by Kampala's forces...
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Vol 66 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
President Yoweri Museveni's son and Chief of Defence Forces General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has provided outspoken support...
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Currying favour with Trump may be a smart move for President Yoweri Museveni ahead of elections next January that could turn violent with the long-serving ruler's legitimacy likely to be challenged...
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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...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
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...
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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...
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