It’s hard to deny an ongoing war to the end with his prime minister after a secretly recorded tape recording of a conversation was exposed as Uganda’s dictator Yoweri Museveni is finding out.
In Turkey, when audio was posted on social media, alleging that Turkish strongman, prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son had diverted tens of millions of dollars the president simply shut down YouTube and Facebook. Still, it doesn’t mean Erdogan’s troubles will disappear. Millions of Turkish citizens can access social media by using external hosting sites.
In Uganda a similar and perhaps more threatening scandal has erupted. For the past several months, a not-so-subtle power struggle between Gen. Museveni and his prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, has emerged to the fore. The two had tried to downplay the split with both occasionally accusing media of exaggerations. Meanwhile Mbabazi’s wife Jacqueline has been very vocal in his defense, offering interviews to local media there. FULL STORY