Vol 48 No 10 | UGANDA Noble's demise 11th May 2007 Mourners thronged Saint John's cathedral in Fort Portal, western Uganda, on 4 May for the funeral of former military intelligence chief and presidential aide, Brigadier Noble Mayo...
Vol 48 No 9 | UGANDA Showing who's boss 27th April 2007 President Yoweri Museveni's plan to sell a piece of the Mabira Forest to the Mehta Group for sugar production has triggered violence by demonstrators and security services.
Vol 48 No 7 | UGANDA Rough justice 30th March 2007 The government raids the courts, punishes the media and buys friendship with Washington The high drama of the military raid on the High Court in Kampala and the subsequent judges' strike is beginning to die down. On 16 March, President Yoweri Museveni hosted a meeting...
Vol 48 No 7 | UGANDA The wealth in common 30th March 2007 Roads and street lights are being repaired and buildings painted in Kampala for November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Bigger potholes might be left by jostli...
Vol 47 No 21 | UGANDA Riek's battalion 20th October 2006 The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandone...
Vol 47 No 19 | UGANDA Peace postponed 22nd September 2006 There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-K...
Vol 47 No 17 | SUDANUGANDA Troubled talks 25th August 2006 The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capi...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Opening broadside 21st July 2006 The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process Opening peace talks with Kampala last week, Lord's Resistance Army representatives began with a broadside against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government. It underlined the ...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North 21st July 2006 When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear at F...
Vol 47 No 12 | UGANDA Old faces 9th June 2006 A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty democracy 'The Movement is dead! Long live the Movement!' This might have been a suitable refrain as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's new government went to work in Uganda's Eighth Parliam...