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Uganda

Population: 46.85m
GDP: $56.31bn
Debt: 49.7% of GDP (2024)

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One way street

President Museveni will win his referendum but at a high price

The President is crisscrossing the country on a campaign he is bound to win. A referendum on political systems, to be held in two months' time under the 1995 constitution, will pit...


Who's who in the NRM

'No party politics' is producing a surprising divergence of views and interests

In June President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement is defending its opposition to multi-party politics in a national referendum. It is set to win the referendum comf...


Other infernos

The government isn't winning and can't afford its wars in the west and north

The systematic killing and burning of more than 700 Ugandans by the leaders of a bogus Christian cult in mid-March generated some sympathy for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's go...


Kaguta yekka!

President Museveni's popularity cannot hide falling support for 'no-party' politics

The ruling National Resistance Movement says it's not a political party, that political parties are unnecessary, divisive and promote ethnic separatism. It proposes a referendum, t...


Muddy

Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Y...


Friends fall out

The 2-year alliance between Museveni and Kagame is in trouble over Congo strategy

In the late 1970s, the old Front Patriotique Rwandais (then exiled in Uganda and Tanzania) had joined forces with Museveni's National Resistance Movement to help oust two Ugandan P...


Asking the people

Yoweri Museveni is far ahead of his political rivals but criticisms of the NRM are growing

Two years before the referendum asking Ugandans whether they want to return to multi-party politics, the ruling National Resistance Movement is taking no chances. It seems to have ...


Lumpen logic

The 19 April election of Alhaji Nasser Sebaggala as Mayor of Kampala tests President Yoweri Museveni's tolerance of dissent (AC Vol 38 No 23). It will be a delicate matter handling...


The border war

The rebellion in the north damages President Museveni's reputation and his budget

In Africa, President Yoweri Museveni's stock runs high, some argue it's second only to Nelson Mandela's. Triumphantly and genuinely elected last year, Museveni's reputation is base...


Museveni's backyard

Sweeping changes in the region have not ended the rebellions against Kampala

After helping to bring major changes to neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa and Southern Sudan, the Ugandan armed forces have now escalated their attempts to stamp out Uganda's own rebel m...


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