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    Podcast: Beyond strongly-worded statements

    By Into Africa
    February 25, 2021
    Welcome to the latest episode of the Into Africa podcast created in partnership with African Arguments. Into Africa is a fortnightly podcast series by the Center for Strategic & International ...
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  • The police block opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine in December 2020 during the Uganda presidential election campaign. Credit: HEBobiwine.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Uganda: How donors can go beyond “strongly-worded statements”

    By Michael Mutyaba
    January 13, 2021
    Mild threats oblivious to how the NRM system actually operates are not enough. The recent violence meted out by the Ugandan government ahead of ...
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  • west President Yoweri Museveni meeting with then IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in 2017. Credit: IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Museveni and the West. Relationship status: It’s complicated

    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    January 7, 2021
    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 ...
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    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Anywhere but Kampala: “I’m still in NRM but I cannot clap for bad vices”

    By Liam Taylor & Michael Woniala
    December 16, 2020
    Is the opposition making inroads in Uganda’s Eastern region ahead of the 2021 elections? We took the political temperature in three different places. High ...
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    Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    How Museveni mastered violence to win elections in Uganda

    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    November 19, 2020
    Repeated arrests and office raids are part of a strategy designed to project control without overly provoking domestic or international criticism. On 18 November, ...
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  • Bobi Wine arrest presidential elections Uganda
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Uganda: If we do not take risks, we risk everything

    By Bobi Wine
    November 11, 2020
    I was arrested and beaten last week for daring to contest the presidential election. This is not a fair fight, but I have no ...
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    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    How much does it cost to be a politician in Uganda? We found out

    By Emmanuel Kitamirike & Peter Kisaakye
    November 10, 2020
    A new report looks into the expenditure of political candidates and MPs. Here are six key findings. As Uganda’s general elections, scheduled for 14 ...
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  • Covid-19KenyaSocietyTop storyUganda

    Plastic, politics and the pandemic: Photographs from East Africa

    By Uganda Press Photo
    November 5, 2020
    In a year still blighted by a raging pandemic, shuttered cities, political upheavals and citizen discontent, photography continues to be an important window into ...
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  • LGBTQ community paralegals in Uganda, facing away from the camera to shield their identities. Credit: John Okot.
    SocietyTop storyUganda

    “Someone willing to help people like me”: Uganda’s LGBTQ paralegals

    By John Okot
    October 29, 2020
    Queer Ugandans who face discrimination often find it impossible to get legal support. But some are training as paralegals so they can help each ...
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    South SudanUganda

    Politicians divided South Sudanese refugees. Sport can re-unite us.

    By Simon Marot Touloung
    September 29, 2020
    During COVID-19, youth from different ethnic groups have worked together drawing on teamwork and friendships forged on the football pitch. I was eight years ...
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