The systematic killing and burning of more than 700 Ugandans by the leaders of a bogus Christian cult in mid-March generated some sympathy for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government...
Yoweri Museveni's personal popularity endures and people have terrible memories of the strife that accompanied the last multi-party era...
Vol 41 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Since Lusaka Kinshasa's allies have avoided confronting their Ugandan and Rwandan counterparts; some kind of deal between Mugabe and Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni could be in the offing allowing both to withdraw some troops yet keeping enough for generals and politicians to carry on exploiting Congolese resources...
The man behind the 'movement' (no-party) system is President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in power since January 1986...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
All three Presidents - Daniel arap Moi in Kenya Benjamin Mkapa in Tanzania Yoweri Museveni in Uganda - believe that economic convergence will boost investment and expand regional markets...
Vol 40 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni whose government has been robustly criticised in a new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch told Africa Confidential that he supported scrutiny and would happily entertain monitors in Kampala but that some of his colleagues 'weren't quite ready...
In another negotiating gambit from Khartoum Lieutenant General Omer el Beshir asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban on 12-15 November...
Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Yoweri Museveni's government...
Vol 40 No 22 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Perhaps the most promising signs are the discreet contacts between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (the leading backer of the forces supporting Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent-Désiré Kabila) and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (the leading backer of the rebel forces)...
Among the militants involved in that operation were Uganda's current President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Vice-President Paul Kagamé who have since taken Nyerere's interventionist doctrine much further...
President Yoweri Museveni's government pioneered the ringfencing of social spending which directs savings from debt relief into a health and education fund...