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The West’s patience with Uganda’s strongman wanes after a bloody election By Abdi Latif Dahir New York Times,Updated January 30, 2021, 2:54 p.m. Email to a Friend Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni spoke to supporters from the sunroof of his car on Jan. 21.BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images NAIROBI, Kenya — A bloody and contentious election season in Uganda, in which dozens of people were killed and the principal opposition candidate was placed under de facto house arrest, recently gave a sixth five-year term to President Yoweri Museveni, a staunch U.S. military ally. But now th...

The New Standard Scale of Fines : A Fine Mess  [ Background to the Notice Statutes which create criminal offences usually specify the penalties that courts may impose, and the penalties often consist of fines whether or not coupled with terms of imprisonment.  Before 2004 fines were expressed as monetary amounts but inflation kept reducing their real value so that statutes had to be amended constantly in order to keep the fines realistic.  Hence section 280 of the Criminal Law Code, enacted in 2004, provided that fines were to be expressed as levels on a Standard Scale of Fines set out i...

Yoweri Museveni has been president longer than most Ugandans have been alive, and his disputed election win Saturday cements his place among the wo...

Yoweri Museveni has been president longer than most Ugandans have been alive, but the ageing leader shows no sign of retiring as he seeks...

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