African Ambiguities: “No-party Democracy” in Uganda

The decision by Uganda’s leaders to abandon the country’s “movement” system and adopt multiparty pluralism creates a significant opportunity for democratic progress.

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

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…