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Losing and winning

The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy Prime Minister...


Names and blames

How did the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan pick its candidates for sanctions over Darfur war crimes? The confidential annex of 22 names, leaked last week,...


The hawks are circling

President Mwai Kibaki has been fatally wounded by his government's corruption scandals

Did President Mwai Kibaki know about illicit political funding? Africa Confidential has listened to a covert recording of a conversation between anti-corruption czar John Githongo and the then...


Waiting but not sitting

The opposition coalition that won the capital last May has split, leaving the city council in limbo

Nine months after May's controversial elections, Addis Ababa's councillors have still not taken their seats. The four-party opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) won the capital by...


Smooth operator

Just as Western governments begin to note the regime's lack of financial transparency, the ruling National Islamic Front-National Congress has another bonanza. On 6 February, Kuwait-based Mobile Telecommunications...


Judges and generals

The election campaign of Forum for Democratic Change leader kizza-besigye">Kizza Besigye has been seriously disrupted by spurious charges of treason and terrorism, both in the High Court and...


Going down with the ship

Finance Minister David Mwiraria is the first domino to fall as the government faces a growing anti-corruption backlash

The momentum behind the anti-corruption drive, sparked by press reports of a dossier of investigations into more than US$1 billion of fraudulent government procurement deals, now looks unstoppable....


Losers can win too

President Museveni is surprised to face the strongest challenge yet to his 20-year rule

The cheering was almost as loud as the jets of two MiG-21 fighters that flew low over Kampala on 26 January. The flypast crowned a military display to...


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