Uganda

The shadow-boxing is at an end. Uganda has its eight candidates for the 18 February presidential election after two fraught days of nominations at Namboole Stadium in Kampala on 26...

President Yoweri Museveni will run for a fourth term after the ruling National Resistance Movement elected him as its candidate – unopposed – on 12 September. The NRM primaries hel...

In the wake of the Al Shabaab bombings on 11 July in Kampala, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni expected a massive boost in funding from Washington for the regional military effort ...

When the wealthy Foreign Affairs Minister was appointed in 2003, President Yoweri Museveni had just won a disputed election and was amending the constitution to run again.

With only six months before Ugandans go to the polls, opposition parties are mired in disagreement after Olara Otunnu made a bid to undermine attempts to field a unity candidate in...

President Yoweri Museveni welcomes African Union leaders to Kampala on 25 July playing a role he has made his own: military leader and regional policeman. Ugandan opposition politi...

Al Shabaab’s political tactics and internal dynamics are deliberately, systematically opaque, on the classic Islamist model. It is both nationalist and avowedly part of the global ...

Dissent is growing against a leader and party that have dominated the country for 24 years. On 23 August, Uganda’s diverse opposition parties aim to announce their joint candidate ...

Kizza Besigye, Olara Otunnu, Norbert Mao, Hussein Kyanjo and Abed Bwanika.

This month, President Yoweri Museveni has approved a face-saving deal to break the impasse over the US$360 million in capital gains tax that his government is claiming from the Jer...