Word: museveni
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...Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won re-election with 69% of the vote against 28% for his main rival Kizza Besigye. Besigye, who once served as Museveni's doctor and was part of the "movement" that brought Museveni to power 15 years ago, accused his former ally's camp of ballot-rigging and intimidation. Besigye said he would petition the Supreme Court to overturn the result. Museveni said Besigye had also rigged some balloting. Opinion polls had predicted a much closer result in a campaign marked by increasing outbreaks of violence, including a bomb in the capital that killed a woman...
...countryside, love overflows for Museveni, the guerrilla leader who shot his way into power in 1986 to give Uganda 15 years of rare stability and relative prosperity. But a love turned sour is facing him among the ranks of his opponents. His main challenger is Kizza Besigye, Museveni's ex-physician and former comrade-in-arms. He has nothing of Museveni's charisma. But he does happen to have a very interesting woman at his side-his wife of 2 1/2 years, Winnie. She has charisma to spare. Once even Museveni thought so. The pertinent and prurient detail here...
...wife of the leading opposition candidate, Winnie Byanyima has nothing but derision for her ex-lover. "Museveni has copied all our ideas because he has none of his own," she proclaims. "Let's send Museveni back to his cattle farm for a long rest!" There is a lot of mud to sling at Museveni, even without mentioning sex (everyone knows about the Winnie affair, but no one would dare make it a political issue). Uganda's level of corruption is one of the highest on a continent not known for aboveboard dealings. Museveni's expensive military adventurism in neighboring Congo...
...Museveni waves away the barbs and the electoral threats posed by his rivals. "I'm not bothered by Besigye," he says. "It's good to have these kinds of people. They bring up issues that should be addressed. The election has been a good cleansing process." And then Museveni proceeds to get a few things off his chest. "Besigye is suffering from AIDS," he says, a remark he has delivered a number of times on the stump. "And Winnie is just a nasty lady." Besigye refuses to address that particular accusation. (He and Byanyima have a son Anselm, born...
While the level of free and fair dialogue remains remarkable for such an untried and multitribal democracy, the possibility of violence constantly simmers below the surface in Uganda. There have been kidnappings and beatings of supporters of both men. Museveni has yet to explain convincingly why he had a Besigye campaign official arrested two weeks ago. Tales of voter intimidation are legion. Both Museveni and Besigye continually ask their supporters to stay calm. But aggressive government security officers and the angry, jobless young men who jam Besigye's rallies keep nerves on edge. The election is March 12. But Dorothy...