Besigye’s decision to break with the president put him in intense and prolonged personal danger.
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Political policing in Uganda’s electoral landscape sustains the struggle for power.
Museveni’s iron grip on the Ugandan military makes it difficult to imagine a peaceful transfer of power.
President Yoweri Museveni’s effort to stop evictions didn’t address underlying problems, but it enhanced his political legitimacy.
Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
Never has a political contest in Uganda’s history been so furiously played out in the media space as the 2021 national elections.
The ruling National Resistance Movement has undermined Uganda’s democracy
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been given the green light to run for another term. He should be happy, but he’s not.
As a young radical in the 1980s, Museveni publicly scorned African rulers who clung to power. Now, after 30 years in office, he is clearly clinging pretty hard himself.
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