Museveni a Mugabe-in-the-making?

In Africa Works:

Museveni aims to maintain a projection of democracy amid a reality of family, dynastic rule. Unwilling to abide by term limits on his own presidency, Museveni takes steady actions to engineer a succession by a family member, perhaps a child or even his own wife, Janet, who is a member of Parliament and a political force in her own right. Once a political icon who justly achieved acclaim for bringing stability to a strife-torn Uganda and fighting AIDS with intelligence, Museveni has become a kind of Mugabe-in-the-making, ever-more willing to sacrifice his country’s well-being for his own narrow interests.

More here

Related articles by Zemanta

• Museveni 'wants son to take over' (news.bbc.co.uk)
• Protesters killed at Uganda tombs (news.bbc.co.uk)