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Uganda

Population: 46.84m
GDP: $55.58bn
Debt: 49.7% of GDP (2024)

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Flying on empty

Uganda Airlines wants to buy six new mid-range airliners costing nearly US$500 million despite losing $146m since its re-launch in August 2019. The aviation trade press reported that...


MPs expose airline fiasco

Africa Confidential has obtained a devastating secret report on huge losses and mismanagement afflicting the flag-carrier, Uganda Airlines

Uganda Airlines has lost US$137 million since it launched in August 2019, according to a parliamentary public accounts committee report which was suppressed by the Speaker of Parliament,...


Speaker accused of undermining parliament

Opposition MPs say Parliament's Speaker blocked a debate on corruption in the national airline, and is President Museveni's stooge

When Parliamentary Speaker, Anita Among, suppressed discussion on 17 January of a report into corruption and mismanagement at Uganda Airlines she triggered a political furore. Opposition MPs say...


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Museveni changes horses on mega rail project

A Turkish company takes the baton after corruption and political intrigue held back the grand plan for a rail link to Kenya

Uganda's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project to construct a 273 kilometre line from Kenya's border town of Malaba to Kampala has been dogged by over-priced contracts, incompetent officials,...

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Economy deprives regime of options

The succession dominates political discourse but if Museveni stands again the economy is less able to accommodate his electoral pump-priming

Economic woes and conflicts in Uganda's restive regions are set to escalate during the year as tensions accumulate over whether President Yoweri Museveni will stand for re-election to...


Museveni seeks seventh heaven

As the President lays the groundwork to stand for a seventh term, the struggling economy may deny him the funds for vote-winning projects

Petitions for President Yoweri Museveni to stand as president in 2026 – his seventh election since seizing power in 1986 – are flooding in from all points of...


Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests

The opposition leader is pushing human rights and scoring against Museveni, whose succession saga meanders on

Bobi Wine, alias Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the country's biggest opposition party is rattling the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), stepping...


Dash to oil depends on China

Uganda is hoping that Chinese funding will enable it to make good on plans to start commercially pumping its oil reserves in April 2025, as the latest part...


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