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.

Longtime president Yoweri Museveni, his ruling party, and his increasingly militarized regime opened 2021 with a grossly unfair election. But time may be on the side of Uganda’s young voters…