Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Presidential solidarityRight on cue Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni now a close ally of Kenyatta's told the General Assembly on 24 September: ‘The ICC in a shallow biased way has continued to mishandle complex African issues...

Uganda's next election may only be in 2016 but President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is almost certain to run again has set out an early agenda...

Khartoum wants to undermine President Yoweri Museveni's government which supports the opposition Sudan Revolutionary Front and at the same time he says pressure South Sudan by fuelling more unrest along the route of Juba's planned oil pipeline...

Uganda's Yoweri Museveni has already done it but in Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for a third term was blocked by a feisty parliament...

That position also lines up Juba with its key allies: Ethiopia's Premier Hailemariam Desalegn and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni who had originally requested ICC intervention in Uganda but then at last month's AU summit was trying to get African governments to withdraw from the Court (AC Vol 54 No 12 Bringing it all back home)...

Tullow accused Heritage's Chief Financial Officer Paul Atherton of lying under oath whilst Heritage said e-mail evidence suggested Tullow had tried to offer Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni $50 000 apparently for his personal use rather than any official purpose...

After calling on the ICC to arrest and prosecute Joseph Kony leader of the murderous Lord’s Resistance Army Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni now damns it as an instrument of Western interference in Africa...

The newspaper had published a private letter from a dissident military officer about claims that President Yoweri Museveni’s government planned to assassinate its opponents...

The promotions served two purposes: to cast Sejusa's accusations against President Yoweri Museveni and his son Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba as the rantings of an embittered generation on its way out of the army; and secondly to build a stronger base for Muhoozi from younger and newly promoted senior officers and to answer criticism that the promotion of Muhoozi and others was due to political favouritism...

The corruption allegations extend to Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s wife Janet Kataha Museveni...