My next piece is up at Global Voices:
February’s cabinet reshuffle has Ugandan bloggers making 2011 election predictions.
Among the new appointments President Yoweri Museveni made was the posting of his wife Janet as state minister for Karamoja, a region in northeastern Uganda that has been plagued by conflict and extreme poverty for decades.
While some bloggers think the high-profile appointment could bring much-needed attention to the region, others are more skeptical.