Aid Junkies Kick The Habit

Like many other leaders, Museveni is confronted by his country's insupportable burden of World Bank / IMF debt - some $1.8 billion out of a total foreign debt of $3.2 billion - which he has difficulty in servicing, let alone repaying. Uniquely, among African leaders, he has seen a way forward.

At a reception at the UK's House of Commons, hosted by Conservative back-bench MP Bill Cash in June 1994, Museveni told an all-party group that he was in favour of