Uganda remains a reliable ally to Kiir but many believe President Yoweri Museveni is only interested in logging and mining concessions in Equatoria rather than South Sudan's future...

His plight serves as a warning to other opposition leaders ahead of the January 2026 presidential election where President Yoweri Museveni is expected to bid for a seventh and final term...

However Kiir blocked Odinga's access to Machar re-directing him to Entebbe to brief Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni...

This time however Uganda plays a smaller role with President Yoweri Museveni maintaining a cautious alliance with the Tshisekedi government in Kinshasa...

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba Uganda's Chief of the Defence Force in Uganda and President Yoweri Museveni's son and dauphin was tweeting in February and March showing sympathy for the M23 and hinting at an alliance with them...

President Yoweri Museveni whose government has had close ties to the M23 in the past has sent a further 1 000 soldiers from the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) into Congo-K to assume a posture of ‘robust defence' according to officials in Kampala...

As President Yoweri Museveni lays the groundwork for a seventh term next January a pressing question remains will he manage to control his mercurial son and heir apparent General Muhoozi Kainerugaba...