Uganda Watch 2011

It is just over a year since Uganda held its general election of February 18, 2011. Much...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in Kampala as chief guest at the Young Achievers Awards ceremony on Dec.11 and ended his visit with a media...

Has the government lost its ability to control a crisis?

When the pressure group Action for Change (A4C) and the other opposition groups announced their “Walk to Work” protests in April, many Ugandans dismissed them as poor losers....

Scholars warn of more protests if dialogue does not replace repression of opposition

As hard economic times bite and it looks like President Yoweri Museveni has decided to become more repressive instead of trying to democratise a hungry nation, agitation is increasing for national dialogue.

That is the verdict of several scholars who spoke to The Independent in...

From the famous oil debate to Gaddafi’s killing.

In October 1980, two months before the Ugandan general election,...

Museveni guarding against outsiders but the danger is internal, say experts

On Aug. 2 Uganda’s oil rich western border with the Democratic Republic of Congo showed once again that it can erupt into insecurity at any time. Barely three months to the tense November 28 presidential elections in the DR Congo, the Mai-Mai militia and Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels...

Since Uganda’s February general elections, the country seems to have been beset by a cluster of domestic crises, one after the other.

Out of nowhere, inflation hit the country, there was a delay in rains...

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Three months after the bitterly disputed February 18, 2011 general election, Uganda remains in the grip of sustained opposition protests at various levels of intensity, but by the last week of May, was also settling down...