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Uganda

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  • The police block opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine in December 2020 during the Uganda presidential election campaign. Credit: HEBobiwine.
    PoliticsUganda

    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.
    PoliticsUganda

    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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  • Uganda elections 2021
    PoliticsUganda

    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
    PoliticsUganda

    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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  • Uganda cost of politics
    PoliticsUganda

    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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  • ClimateCovid-19KenyaSocietyUganda

    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.
    SocietyUganda

    “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 sudan refugees sport football
    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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  • Emelda Yawa tending to her small vegetable patch at Rhino Camp, northern Uganda. Credit: Luate Shem
    SocietySouth SudanUganda

    “They have to give us our 100% food ration back”

    By John Jal Dak
    September 21, 2020
    Hit by 30% ration cuts and with no land to grow our own food, South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are stuck between a rock ...
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