Vol 41 No 13 | RWANDAUGANDA After Kisangani 23rd June 2000 After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa,...
Vol 41 No 9 | UGANDA One way street 28th April 2000 President Museveni will win his referendum but at a high price The President is crisscrossing the country on a campaign he is bound to win. A referendum on political systems, to be held in two months' time under the...
Vol 41 No 9 | UGANDA Who's who in the NRM 28th April 2000 'No party politics' is producing a surprising divergence of views and interests In June President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement is defending its opposition to multi-party politics in a national referendum. It is set to win the referendum comfortably...
Vol 41 No 7 | UGANDA Other infernos 31st March 2000 The government isn't winning and can't afford its wars in the west and north The systematic killing and burning of more than 700 Ugandans by the leaders of a bogus Christian cult in mid-March generated some sympathy for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's...
Vol 41 No 3 | UGANDA Kaguta yekka! 4th February 2000 President Museveni's popularity cannot hide falling support for 'no-party' politics The ruling National Resistance Movement says it's not a political party, that political parties are unnecessary, divisive and promote ethnic separatism. It proposes a referendum, to be held...
Vol 40 No 25 | UGANDA Muddy 17th December 1999 Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Yoweri Museveni's...
Vol 40 No 18 | RWANDAUGANDA Friends fall out 10th September 1999 The 2-year alliance between Museveni and Kagame is in trouble over Congo strategy In the late 1970s, the old Front Patriotique Rwandais (then exiled in Uganda and Tanzania) had joined forces with Museveni's National Resistance Movement to help oust two Ugandan...
Vol 39 No 24 | UGANDA Asking the people 4th December 1998 Yoweri Museveni is far ahead of his political rivals but criticisms of the NRM are growing Two years before the referendum asking Ugandans whether they want to return to multi-party politics, the ruling National Resistance Movement is taking no chances. It seems to have...
Vol 39 No 9 | UGANDA Lumpen logic 1st May 1998 The 19 April election of Alhaji Nasser Sebaggala as Mayor of Kampala tests President Yoweri Museveni's tolerance of dissent (AC Vol 38 No 23). It will be a...
Vol 38 No 23 | UGANDA The border war 21st November 1997 The rebellion in the north damages President Museveni's reputation and his budget In Africa, President Yoweri Museveni's stock runs high, some argue it's second only to Nelson Mandela's. Triumphantly and genuinely elected last year, Museveni's reputation is based on his...