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President Yoweri Museveni's government may have seen a chance to curry favour with the United States by quickly agreeing to take in 2 000 refugees fleeing Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power there...
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Although Ruto has not formally left the Jubilee party that he founded with President Uhuru Kenyatta a formal split appears to be only a matter of time although Ruto aides following his meeting with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni last week indicated that they have not given up on Kenyatta endorsing Ruto (AC Dispatches 13/07/21 Deputy President Ruto courts Museveni's support)...
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Vol 62 No 14 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says that his meeting with Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto last week was simply a gathering of neighbouring leaders...
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In the febrile post-election climate President Yoweri Museveni's attempts to co-opt his political rivals and dissidents are proving tortuous for the ruling National Resistance Movement...
The most decorated Muganda military officer Katumba had been head of the national police and then Chief of Defence Forces until President Yoweri Museveni removed him from the post in 2017 and appointed him works and transport minister...
Museveni's security cabinet President Yoweri Museveni strengthened the role of military leaders and securocrats in his government as he unveiled a hefty 50-member cabinet appointing two women to the top positions in government and dropping the three main ministers...
'Deal Done' trumpeted the loyalist press in Dar es Salaam after President Samia Suluhu Hassan and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed agreements with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Company to build the world's longest heated oil pipeline in late May...
(TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné said he had expressed his concern about this to President Yoweri Museveni...
President Yoweri Museveni may be closing on a fourth decade in power but all is far from well in his restive ruling party as members wait for him to announce his next cabinet following his swearing in on May 12...
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There is another reason for President Yoweri Museveni to back the mission: it may curry favour and deflect attention from the case being heard at the International Court of Justice where the Congo-K government is seeking some $13 billion in reparations from Uganda for its role in the conflicts in Ituri between 1998 and 2003 demands which Uganda's lawyers have described as 'dangerously disproportionate'...
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Vol 62 No 9 |
- TANZANIA
- UGANDA
Yoweri Museveni sees oil production which could last for 25 to 30 years as a driver of growth and modernisation...
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Tension is running high in Kampala and Jinja over a month after President Yoweri Museveni lifted restrictions on social media and the internet imposed ahead of the 14 January election...