Uganda: How Museveni Has Outfoxed the United States and Allies

25 November 2012

Four months after Yoweri Museveni captured power with his NRA rebels, US President Ronald Reagan ordered strikes against Col Muammar Gaddafi's government in Libya.

It was in response to a bomb blast at a Berlin discotheque, carried out by suspected Gaddafi agents. However, these events would have little meaning in Uganda which was still nursing the scars of the Luweero bush war where thousands had died. Our economy was on a death spiral and a staccato of gunfire rent the air as a rebellion sprang up in northern Uganda.

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