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The country has also had to contend with a brutal year insurgency in the north, led by the Lord's Resistance Army. President: Yoweri Museveni. Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement have ruled Uganda without interruption since seizing power in He won the presidential elections after a constitutional amendment lifted presidential term limits, and went on to win again in The opposition and independent observers have complained about the fairness and transparency of these and earlier polls.

In parliament voted to remove the year age limit for presidential candidates, clearing the way for Mr Museveni to run for a sixth term in office.

Mr Museveni has been credited with restoring relative stability and economic prosperity to Uganda following years of civil war and repression under former leaders Milton Obote and Idi Amin. More recently, Uganda has been accused of aiding rebels there. Log In. Subscribe Subscribe. View Comments. Join the conversation on this and other recent Foreign Policy articles when you subscribe now. Not your account? Log out.

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He was now looking to sell off his land. During all this, we were asking about access to vaccines. The economic hit caused by the pandemic meant that many African countries, including Uganda, were unable to buy vaccines even through the global Covax programme. They had to rely on the paltry donations from western countries. With a population of more than 43 million, and with so few vaccinated, it means that Uganda will continue to have constant lockdowns, which will continue to have drastic economic impacts.

Last month Britain sent , doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Uganda as part of its pledge to send m vaccines to the developing countries through Covax. This still falls well short of what is needed to get the country fully operational. Uganda expects to receive at least According to Ugandan health ministry figures, about 1. Until the vaccines arrive in the numbers required, their futures, as for most Ugandans, will remain on hold.

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