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'...

Yoweri Museveni sees oil production which could last for 25 to 30 years as a driver of growth and modernisation...

Although National Unity Platform leader Bobi Wine dropped his Supreme Court challenge against the official declaration that President Yoweri Museveni had won 59% of the votes in the 14 January presidential elections he insists his party and its allies are gearing up for another season of activism...

President Yoweri Museveni's decision to order the suspension of the European-funded Democratic Governance Facility risks further provoking the European Union into imposing sanctions against him...

After two weeks of house arrest the military siege around opposition leader Bobi Wine's home has been gradually lifted and he responded by filing a challenge on 1 February at the Supreme Court to the election results giving President Yoweri Museveni 59% of the votes in the 14 January elections...

After a High Court ruling on Monday (25 January) ordering police and army officers to leave Bobi Wine's home which they had surrounded since election day on 14 January his National Unity Platform is mulling its response to what it says is President Yoweri Museveni's stolen victory at the polls...