Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in London on 29 January (although the prospect of a third term for Museveni is not welcome in Kigali)...
This disrupts SPLA relations with Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni is increasingly criticised as Joseph Kony's rebels commit renewed atrocities...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Reforming zeal has also evaporated in Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni's suspected plans for a third elected term have provoked unprecedented opposition from within his own National Resistance Movement...
After 18 years of the Lord's Resistance Army's murderous attacks on civilians President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni declares on 14 November that the LRA is 'nearly finished' then the LRA launches another round of attacks to prove him wrong...
His strength is that he was for years an insider: a Banyankole like President Yoweri Museveni Besigye fought with the National Resistance Army and endorsed the goals of Museveni's revolutionary regime when it seized power in 1986...
Uganda has friends everywhere; there are even Hawiye and Darod merchants around President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni...
President Yoweri Museveni is trying to reassure local people that every effort is being made to halt the advance; Soroti is only some 200 kilometres from the capital Kampala well south of the LRA's savannah heartland...
As other African reform efforts derail President Yoweri Museveni has convinced his Western allies that he is serious about improving accountability and providing strong support to business...
A growing minority within the ruling National Resistance Movement opposes another five-year term for President Yoweri Museveni in 2006 as well as the political reforms that his supporters are trying to push through parliament...
The result may be sweeter still since Kagame rejected the advice of his former ally President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to abjure multi-party politics in favour of a Ugandan-style no-party system...