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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Date of Birth: 15 August 1944
Place of Birth: Ntungamo, Uganda


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China holds key to regional oil project

President Yoweri Museveni's determination to build a Ugandan refinery held up the commercialisation of Lake Albert's oil reserves for years and eventually he had to settle for a pipeline...

The main reason for the years of delay is President Yoweri Museveni's preference for an oil refinery which would make Uganda the main player in the regional petroleum market (AC Vol 61 No 21 Leaders seek poll boost from pipeline deal)...


Kagame shakes up the army – just in case

Several belong to a generation whose members grew up alongside Kagame in western Uganda served as young men in Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) in the 1970s and 1980s joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) when it was secretly established in Kampala and invaded Rwanda in 1990 to topple Juvénal Habyarimana...


Museveni's divide-and-rule master-class

Hard questions are being asked about the future of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) the second biggest opposition party after Bobi Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) after accusations that it received billions of shillings from President Yoweri Museveni ahead of the 2021 elections caused deep splits...

President comes out as a Mao-ist A meticulously curated political rally in Gulu northern Uganda in July reveals the strategy President Yoweri Museveni is devising for the 2026 general election according to analysts in Kampala...


Nairobi takes lead on economic accords

This row in Nairobi is being turbo-charged by a parallel clash in Kampala between President Yoweri Museveni's government and the World Bank which has suspended project finance to Uganda in response draconian anti-gay laws going through parliament...


The new age of austerity

8m in foreign grants and loans – 21% of the proposed budget – are optimistic given the donor anger and threats of sanctions following President Yoweri Museveni's recent signing of new anti-homosexuality legislation...

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Presidents face growing pressure on draconian anti-gay laws

Weeks after Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo played down the prospects of his approving a draconian anti-homosexuality bill Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni had appeared to be following similar tactics by calling for parliament's original draft of the bill to be revised...

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Muhoozi sticks his neck out

Public commentary on Muhoozi has been held back by President Yoweri Museveni's ban on discussion of the succession outside the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) yet it doesn't restrain his son's ambitions...


Rot at savings fund exposed

'The general' meant Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh President Yoweri Museveni's brother and a key figure in the government one of whose current titles is Chief Co-ordinator of Operation Wealth Creation a programme launched by the President in 2013 to add value to agricultural smallholders' output...


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