Vol 43 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Proxy wars and slaughter 25th October 2002 The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed Rwanda and Uganda have pulled out their troops (AC Vol 43 No 19) but the proxy war continues in eastern Congo. On 15 August in Luanda, Uganda agreed with Congo-Kinshasa to withdraw...
Vol 43 No 16 | UGANDA Don't praise the lord 9th August 2002 Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them If it was the last kick of a dying horse, it was a powerful one. At daybreak on 5 August, a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony attacked a refugee camp at Aco...
Vol 43 No 16 | UGANDA Soldiers of tomorrow 9th August 2002 The Uganda People's Defence Force is under siege at home and abroad. Its mediation in Sudan looks even less credible than its attempts to dig its way out of its greedy and failing ...
Vol 43 No 15 | UGANDA Henry's parachute 26th July 2002 Was Brigadier Henry Tumukunde pushed out as director of the Internal Security Organisation or did he jump? Sources close to President Yoweri Museveni insist that Tumukunde, an aloo...
Vol 43 No 9 | SUDANUGANDA The Carlos card 3rd May 2002 The odd agreement between Khartoum and Kampala allowing Ugandan troops into Sudan to attack the Lord's Resistance Army was renewed last week till mid-May. For both sides this has m...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Brothers at war 23rd November 2001 Personal rivalries and war spoils spark a new crisis between Kigali and Kampala Rwanda and Uganda risk repeating the disaster which overtook the equally revolutionary governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose war in 1998-2000 cost over 100,000 lives and wreck...
Vol 42 No 23 | RWANDAUGANDA Picking a fight 23rd November 2001 British Development Minister Clare Short's intercession in Whitehall didn't stop Rwanda and Uganda banging war drums elsewhere. As Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni were s...
Vol 42 No 16 | UGANDA Banking blunders 10th August 2001 A political row looms after President Yoweri Museveni, his son Lieutenant Muhoozi Kainerugba and his brother Major General Salim Saleh were accused in court of being party to the f...
Vol 42 No 7 | UGANDA Ungracious winner 6th April 2001 President Museveni's crushing victory raises concerns about the return of personal rule Losing is completely hypothetical. It will not happen,' President Yoweri Museveni told journalists in Kampala on the eve of the presidential election on 13 March. He did not lose a...
Vol 41 No 13 | RWANDAUGANDA After Kisangani 23rd June 2000 After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Represen...