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Author: Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss

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Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss

Kristof Titeca is an associate professor at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp. Follow him on twitter at @kristoftiteca. Anna Reuss is a conflict and peace adviser based in Kenya. Follow her on twitter at @reussae.

  • west President Yoweri Museveni meeting with then IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in 2017. Credit: IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.
    PoliticsUganda
    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    January 7, 2021
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    Museveni and the West. Relationship status: It’s complicated

    President Museveni decries foreign interference yet plays to Western donors. Donors warn of Ugandan corruption yet facilitate it. Over the last few months, Uganda’s President Yoweri ...
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    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    November 19, 2020
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    How Museveni mastered violence to win elections in Uganda

    Repeated arrests and office raids are part of a strategy designed to project control without overly provoking domestic or international criticism. On 18 November, Uganda’s musician-turned-politician ...
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  • In the Rwenzori mountains in western Uganda, near the border with the DR Congo. Credit: Brian Harries.
    PoliticsUganda
    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    July 4, 2017
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    Uganda: Why the unrest in Rwenzori is far from over

    The government’s strategy of lethal retaliation plus patronage has contained the recent violence. It has not resolved it. The Rwenzori region in western Uganda has a ...
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