Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Goetz's resurgence as gold's primus inter pares in the Great Lakes has been partly enabled by his close association with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni who ceremonially inaugurated AGR and give it a major boost by announcing a 0% export tax on gold refined in Uganda (AC Vol 58 No 12 Refining impurities)...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has grown increasingly impatient with both Kinshasa and Kigali over the past year accusing Congolese elements of having supported a rebellion in western Uganda that he quelled in November 2016...

Once regarded as the most powerful general in Ugandan internal security circles the Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura has fallen from President Yoweri Museveni's favour...

The opposition in Uganda appears to be gathering steam again raising questions about President Yoweri Museveni's plans to secure yet another term in power and doubts about erratic policy-making in the oil and gas sector (AC Vol 55 No 23 Loans for oil)...

Whatever the decision Lusaka insiders say Lungu – a fervent admirer of the political survival strategies of President Yoweri Museveni – will try to use any means to remain head of state...

In the East African Community relations between Kenya Uganda and Rwanda will continue to blossom in 2018 largely due to the chemistry between Kenyatta President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...

Treason charges have since been dropped but the accusations also include 'disturbing the peace of President Yoweri Museveni his brother General Salim Saleh and Minister for Security Henry Tumukunde' all of whom were mentioned in the story (AC Vol 57 No 3 How the next election will be won)...

Long entrenched in eastern Congo-K the ADF has become part of a proxy war between President Joseph Kabila and his Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) and opposition politician Mbusa Nyamwisi exiled in Tanzania who has close links to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal & Vol 57 No 25 Killers crowd in)...

The African Gold Refinery launched by President Yoweri Museveni in February is being investigated by a United Nations panel of experts and two Ugandan anti-corruption agencies...

Late last year President Yoweri Museveni directed his technocrats and the oil companies to start production in two years...