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Uganda’s presidential hopefuls have no clear foreign policy plans

Yoweri Museveni.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni (right) and China’s third vice prime minister Wang Yang inaugurate an expressway in 2018. More recently, President Museveni has been looking inwards as he faces growing opposition at home. PHOTO | AFP

By  IAN KATUSIIME

Four weeks into election campaigns, Uganda’s 11 presidential candidates have yet to articulate their foreign policy positions.

Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni’s public pronouncements are not pushing any specific agenda and neither is his party manifesto.

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