The bill would have authorised a referendum on the return to multiparty politics banned since President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986...
Campaigning had already begun for multi-party elections next year and the end of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's one-party 'Movement System'...
Other key players are Sam Njuba Major General Mugisha Muntu Miria Matembe and Eriya Kategaya a childhood friend of President Yoweri Museveni's and former Foreign Affairs Minister sacked from cabinet in May 2003 for opposing a third term for the President...
Some held aloft three fingers showing support for a third term for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni...
President Yoweri Museveni's government in Kampala remains locked in a bloody counterinsurgency campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army a fierce and brutal pseudo-Christian cult backed opportunistically by Sudan's National Islamic Front regime...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
In Kampala President Yoweri Museveni will continue to equivocate on the merits of the multi-party system he has rhetorically supported and his intention of seeking a third elected term in office...
Relations with Kampala improved when Kagame and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni visited their old school together at Mbarare...
The government says a two-thirds parliamentary majority will be sufficient to end the two presidential term limit (so allowing President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to stand yet again)...
Vol 45 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The apartheid regime had established covert links with Khartoum and had sold artillery to the government forces fighting the SPLA while the ANC had established good relations with SPLA leader John Garang de Mabior bolstered by its close ties with Garang's ally Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni...
The desire to stay in power for a third term could prove the chink in President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's well-maintained armour...