African Ambiguities: “No-party Democracy” in Uganda

Despite signs of a cautious willingness to allow more political competition, the regime of newly reelected president Yoweri Museveni fell back on familiar habits of brutal repression when public unrest…

Uganda’a move to a multiparty system is really a maneuver by President Yoweri Museveni to prolong his stay in power beyond the two-term limit mandated by the constitution.

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.