Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA In come the vigilantes 26th September 2003 The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA The advance of Joseph Kony's dreaded Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) towards Soroti, the main town of eastern Teso region, has shocked the government and caught the army by surprise. ...
Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA Model reformer stumbles 26th September 2003 Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget in the 2002-03 f...
Vol 44 No 18 | UGANDA Dr Faustus, I presume 12th September 2003 The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling A growing minority within the ruling National Resistance Movement opposes another five-year term for President Yoweri Museveni in 2006 as well as the political reforms that his sup...
Vol 44 No 16 | UGANDA Father and son 8th August 2003 The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death condition in ...
Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA Kazini goes back to school 13th June 2003 The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military Commander of the Ugandan People's Defence Force Major General James Kazini was second only to President Yoweri Museveni in the military hierarchy. So continuing allegations of corr...
Vol 44 No 12 | UGANDA It's all in the family 13th June 2003 In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the north's c...
Vol 44 No 10 | RWANDAUGANDA High dudgeon summit 16th May 2003 None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were ag...
Vol 44 No 9 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Drummed out 2nd May 2003 Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeropla...
Vol 44 No 7 | UGANDA The great U-turn 4th April 2003 President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance of a third term at the top It was the sharpest of U-turns. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has vehemently defended his 'no-party system' of government since he won power in 1986, now wants to lift the ...
Vol 44 No 7 | RWANDAUGANDA Soccer war, Congo war 4th April 2003 So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between...