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Spotlight UGANDA Issue dated 05/02/2011

Museveni takes no chances

In power for 25 years now, President Yoweri Museveni is not skimping on means to try and win another mandate in the election on 18 February, which would take him into the Guinness Book of Records for presidential longevity. In [...] (720 words)

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