Ovago Vile Vile

Ow’embaliga

Rope Bridge

Global Role

• Their presence is critical to the success of the transition.
• Underwrite a number of the programmes implemented

• Strategic ally of superpowers. Provides vital bases and staging grounds in new global security paradigm.
• Attraction as investment destination gives the country regional prominence
• Go-it-alone foreign policy creates tensions with neighbours and within regional bodies

• Retreats from star performer to pariah and is increasingly isolated
• Regional antagonist

Who Benefits?

• Uganda as a nation

• The political and business elite

• Those with access to power – segment of political and military elite

Who loses?

• Warlords, Corrupt politicians

• The rural poor

• Opposition politicians
• People in those areas not closely connected to the political/military elite

Whom do you trust?

• My neighbour
• My nation
• Our institutions

• My connections (local and foreign)
• My ‘class’ allies
• People like me

• My kin
• My patron