Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss

west President Yoweri Museveni meeting with then IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in 2017. Credit: IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...