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

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Vol 64 No 3 |

UGANDA
TURKEY

Museveni changes horses on mega rail project

24th January 2023

A Turkish company takes the baton after corruption and political intrigue held back the grand plan for a rail link to Kenya

Uganda's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project to construct a 273 kilometre line from Kenya's border town of Malaba to Kampala has been dogged by over-priced contracts, incompetent ...

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Vol 64 No 1 |

UGANDA
AFRICA IN 2023

Economy deprives regime of options

5th January 2023

The succession dominates political discourse but if Museveni stands again the economy is less able to accommodate his electoral pump-priming

Economic woes and conflicts in Uganda's restive regions are set to escalate during the year as tensions accumulate over whether President Yoweri Museveni will stand for re-election...

Vol 63 No 25 |

UGANDA

Museveni seeks seventh heaven

8th December 2022

As the President lays the groundwork to stand for a seventh term, the struggling economy may deny him the funds for vote-winning projects

Petitions for President Yoweri Museveni to stand as president in 2026 – his seventh election since seizing power in 1986 – are flooding in from all points of the Uganda...

Vol 63 No 24 |

UGANDA

Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests

30th November 2022

The opposition leader is pushing human rights and scoring against Museveni, whose succession saga meanders on

Bobi Wine, alias Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the country's biggest opposition party is rattling the ruling National Resistance Movem...

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Vol 63 No 24 |

KENYA
UGANDA

Ruto and Museveni go east

29th November 2022

The latest forays by East African leaders show their region's fast-expanding economic ties with Asia

Less than a fortnight after their Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China to drum up trade and investment, Presidents William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni of Kenya and ...

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Vol 63 No 22 |

TANZANIA
UGANDA

Dash to oil depends on China

3rd November 2022

Uganda is hoping that Chinese funding will enable it to make good on plans to start commercially pumping its oil reserves in April 2025, as the latest part of its ambitious East Af...

Vol 63 No 21 |

KENYA
UGANDA

How Muhoozi threatens his father's grip on power

11th October 2022

President Museveni's erratic son has exposed a dangerous vacuum of power which could trigger a messy succession battle

The falling out between President Yoweri Museveni and his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba is dividing the first family and the state bureaucracy, as well as deepening disaffection in the m...

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Vol 63 No 20 |

African leaders warn on climate talks failure at UN General Assembly

28th September 2022

Gap widens ahead of COP27 on finance and carbon targets between rich and developing economies

The first week of speeches at the UN General Assembly augured badly for progress at the UN's COP27 Climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh with leaders from the global South rejecting st...

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Vol 63 No 19 |

UGANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Kampala pays war reparations to Kinshasa

13th September 2022

In his eagerness to woo Tshisekedi, Museveni makes a down payment on disputed debt

Uganda's move to pay the first US$65 million installment towards its $325m reparations bill to Congo-Kinshasa, despite describing the Netherlands-based International Court of Justi...

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Vol 63 No 18 |

RWANDA
UGANDA

Slow progress on the diplomatic de-icing

6th September 2022

President Museveni's son, General Muhoozi, is keener on restoring ties with Kigali's government than his father

The deep freeze between Rwanda and Uganda may be coming to an end after officials confirmed earlier this week that they had resumed diplomatic talks.

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