No U-turn for Uganda


Origin of a virus: Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) employee Gerald Mukisa walking in the Zika Forest, Kampala, Uganda. The Zika virus was first discovered in this small forest in 1947 and was named after it. —EPA

The nation, with its colourful past, needed peace and relative prosperity more than anything after the rule of Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Yoweri Museveni was seen to be the answer but is his continuing rule the best thing for his country?

“THERE’S a new President in Uganda, isn’t there? Tito Okello, I believe?” I asked my friend Paul Amailuk back in early 1986.

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