Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

A summit on ACIRC in South Africa in November was attended by just four presidents (South Africa's Jacob Zuma Chad's Idriss Déby Itno Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete)...

The alacrity with which regional leaders such as Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta sprang to the defence of Salva shows how the dynamics of East Africa's new move to regional unity mean mutual respect for leaders above all else...

A thorn in President Yoweri Museveni's side was removed when Kampala City Council voted to depose the Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago of the opposition Democratic Party on 25 November...

Activists in the Washington-based 'Enough' lobby say that Kony maintains good relations with the ruling National Congress Party regime in Sudan whose forerunner the National Islamic Front supported the LRA's operations in northern Uganda in the early 1990s as a means to stop President Yoweri Museveni from supporting the Sudan People's Liberation Army (AC Vol 46 No 21 Khartoum's game)...

Despite the talk of a mass walkout from the ICC Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is said to have been alone in offering to withdraw from the Rome Statute...

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)...