Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Opening broadside 21st July 2006 The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process Opening peace talks with Kampala last week, Lord's Resistance Army representatives began with a broadside against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government. It underlined the gulf between the...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North 21st July 2006 When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear...
Vol 47 No 12 | UGANDA Old faces 9th June 2006 A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty democracy 'The Movement is dead! Long live the Movement!' This might have been a suitable refrain as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's new government went to work in Uganda's Eighth...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANUGANDA Taping the LRA 26th May 2006 South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice At the celebrations to mark the founding of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army on 16 May, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit told supporters that his fledgling government...
Vol 47 No 7 | UGANDA Khartoum's long arm 31st March 2006 The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well A spate of attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army over the last two months on the region around Yei in Southern Sudan has put the international focus back...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Museveni wins, at a price 3rd March 2006 Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament but the country is divided There is no love lost between those political and personal foes, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his former friend, colleague and physician, Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe, the President's only...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Losing and winning 3rd March 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 4 | UGANDA Judges and generals 17th February 2006 The election campaign of Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye has been seriously disrupted by spurious charges of treason and terrorism, both in the High Court and...
Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Losers can win too 3rd February 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Making the President nervous 3rd February 2006 Only President Yoweri Museveni's die-hard supporters expect him to win many votes in northern Uganda, where he is blamed for failing to end the 18-year insurgency by the...