Vol 45 No 5 | UGANDA Double war 5th March 2004 Rebel massacres and party activists are shaking the National Resistance Movement's political dominance As pressure mounts on President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to leave power by 2006 at the end of his second elected term, both the military war in the north...
Vol 44 No 24 | UGANDA Military muscle, political problems 5th December 2003 The government's failure to end the LRA's brutal campaign points to a growing national crisis After 18 years of the Lord's Resistance Army's murderous attacks on civilians, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni declares on 14 November that the LRA is 'nearly finished' then...
Vol 44 No 24 | UGANDA Colonel Kizza's story 5th December 2003 In exile after claiming to have been targeted by government assassins, Colonel Kizza Besigye remains the opposition's most credible flagbearer. His strength is that he was for years...
Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA In come the vigilantes 26th September 2003 The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA The advance of Joseph Kony's dreaded Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) towards Soroti, the main town of eastern Teso region, has shocked the government and caught the army by...
Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA Model reformer stumbles 26th September 2003 Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget...
Vol 44 No 18 | UGANDA Dr Faustus, I presume 12th September 2003 The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling A growing minority within the ruling National Resistance Movement opposes another five-year term for President Yoweri Museveni in 2006 as well as the political reforms that his supporters...
Vol 44 No 16 | UGANDA Father and son 8th August 2003 The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death...
Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA Kazini goes back to school 13th June 2003 The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military Commander of the Ugandan People's Defence Force Major General James Kazini was second only to President Yoweri Museveni in the military hierarchy. So continuing allegations of corruption against...
Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA It's all in the family 13th June 2003 In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the...
Vol 44 No 10 | RWANDAUGANDA High dudgeon summit 16th May 2003 None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were agreed...