President Yoweri Museveni's decision to invite opposition minister Norbert Mao to the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) parliamentary retreat at Kyankwanzi in April – and then praise his leadership qualities – was less politically open-minded than it looked...
Vol 67 No 9 |
- KENYA
- FRANCE
William Samoei Ruto opened the Africa Finance Corporation summit on 23 April in Nairobi last week flanked by Nigeria's Aliko Dangote and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni – a tableau to show Kenya's president as a regional powerbroker and an investment magnet...
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Landing in the United States after two months on the run Uganda's opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine wants the Trump administration and the European Union to slap sanctions on President Yoweri Museveni's government which he accuses of grand corruption deepening political repression and gargantuan voter malfeasance in January's election...
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Landing in the United States after two months on the run Uganda's opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine wants the Trump administration and the European Union to slap sanctions on President Yoweri Museveni's government which he accuses of grand corruption deepening political repression and gargantuan voter malfeasance in January's election...
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Vol 67 No 6 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Yet Aziz's rise within Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and his links to Kenya's President William Ruto Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and President Hassan have raised concerns...
In many ways Chief of Defence Forces General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is claiming his father President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's victory in the 15 January elections as his own breakthrough...
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The definition of ‘genocide' ratchets up the pressure but Hemeti still has allies in the region notably Kenya's President William Ruto and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni who invited him for talks at State House in Entebbe just a day after the UN report...
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At a press conference hosted by the Kenya Human Rights Commission on 19 January Njagi and Oyoo accused President Yoweri Museveni of transferring control of the electoral process from the Independent Electoral Commission to the security forces as part of a ‘military takeover'...
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At the centre of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's campaign against opposition activists ahead of the 15 January general election Museveni's son Defence Forces chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is leading the post-election crackdown on dissenters (AC Vol 67 No 1 Museveni hopes black gold will buy off dissent)...
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President Yoweri Museveni was expected to retain power following the 15 January polls...
Wine and his senior officials have understandably attributed this – and President Yoweri Museveni's crushing victory – to ballot stuffing and a sustained campaign of state repression and intimidation but NUP's weakness on domestic policy also hurt its vote...