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Behind Uganda President Museveni’s Political Kissing And Makeup: An African Big Man Searches For His Legacy

Recently I was visiting with Andrew Mwenda, the Strategy and Editorial Director of the Uganda current affairs magazine The Independent at his Butabika home, in Kampala’s suburbs, when he squeezed me for a favour. He asked that I write about what I thought President Yoweri Museveni was trying to achieve with his “reconciliatory” actions towards several […]

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‘Peeling Back The Mask’; Why An Angry Aide’s Book Might Be An Unlikely Early Christmas Present For Kenya President Kibaki And Prime Minister Raila (Part 1)

The Miguna has landed, said a Kenyan wag. Last year, Miguna Miguna, Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s controversial and combative advisor on Coalition, Constitutional and Legal Affairs was dropped from his job. And with that, the country witnessed one of the bitterest political fall-outs between master and servant of recent Kenyan history. An angry Miguna […]

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The Empires Strikes Back: President Museveni Fires Hot Shots At ‘NRM Enemy’ Over Somalia Report

Uganda president Museveni’s very sharp response to my “In Somalia The UPDF Finally Found Its Freedom And Peace”, was sent to media houses in Kampala on the evening of May 6. It was published with the headline “Mogadishu: Museveni Responds To Obbo” in the semi-state owned New Vision on May 7, and in the Daily […]

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