Rivalry has not disappeared from east Africa. It has simply been repackaged as competing ‘regional’ projects.
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The power dynamics of labour migration to the Middle East are complex.
The draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values contains serious inaccuracies and could have far-reaching consequences if adopted.
He wanted to be a writer, but believes he’ll get his message across more easily through music.
Bobi Wine’s escape from Uganda to the US reveals controlled tensions within both the Museveni regime and opposition.
Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have relied on borderlands and declining political will to avoid detection.
Besigye’s decision to break with the president put him in intense and prolonged personal danger.
The youth-led struggle for democracy in Uganda reflects a broader continental reality: young Africans want better leadership.
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.
The US is not alone in its attempts to send asylum seekers to countries in Africa.
President Yoweri Museveni’s effort to stop evictions didn’t address underlying problems, but it enhanced his political legitimacy.
The secret transfer of people from one country to another – against their will – carries great public risks.
Cities are political battlefields, where elites try to retain control, and people challenge this authority.
Uganda’s interest in natural resources during the second Congo war has had a lasting impact on how it’s perceived in the DRC.
Kenya’s first post-independence president used his writings to present himself as a leader of an exceptional sort.
Women are constantly battling stereotypes that seek to maintain the status quo of male dominance in political spaces.
An emotional roller coaster, the film tracks the pop star’s political battle up close and personal.
Ogwal’s experiences as an opposition politician are emblematic of the challenges faced by political opponents of the regime in Uganda.
Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
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