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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has disavowed reports that Uganda is now a middle-income status nation.<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t say we have already become but I said we are entering middle income status,\u201d Mr Museveni said after weeks of a protracted-factual confrontation involving the World Bank (WB) and Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos).<\/p>\n

On July 13, 2022 Mr Museveni contested the WB\u2019s $840 Gross National Income (GNI) calculation in Uganda\u2019s economic update for FY2020\/2021 stating that Uganda had eclipsed the GDP per capita threshold of $1036 ahead of FY2022\/23.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I said was that the GDP per capita at 1,046 has just entered the middle income bracket which is $1,036. There\u2019s no contradiction (with WB),\u201d he said in an interview with World Is One News (WION).<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni capped his new position acknowledging that Uganda must sustain its already overheating economy with a GDP above $1,036 for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in order to be declared officially, I said in my speech that you need to maintain that or surpass it,\u201d he emphasized on July 16.<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni further reiterated that the African Union (AU) \u201cshould have confronted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)\u201d during 2011 operations that ended dictator Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s regime in Libya.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we defeated the whites [during decolonization], there was some relaxation and diversion and that\u2019s how we allowed NATO to attack Libya. We shouldn\u2019t have allowed it,\u201d Mr Museveni echoed.<\/p>\n

The Ugandan leader observed that NATO exploited weaknesses of the AU and other continental organizations to deploy forces that backed Libyan protests leading to the fall of Gaddafi – after 42 years in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequence is all this chaos you are seeing in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso,\u201d said Mr Museveni who has been in power since 1986.<\/p>\n

The first Libyan civil war is just one of over 10 such power grabs in Africa that the 1980-86 guerilla war leader has consistently attributed to interference by the West.<\/p>\n

But according to him, African Organizations such as AU, SADC and ECOWAS \u201chave the potential and capacity to save Africa from these criminals, traitors and imperialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on the \u2018United States of Africa\u2019 ideology peddled by Gaddafi and former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Mr Museveni contended that he did not support the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never supported the idea of an All African Union government. What I support is the continental free trade area which can become an African common market\u2026\u201d he told WION\u2019s Eric Njoka in a July 16 interview.<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni, 77, further called for political integration- only in parts of the continent that are either similar or compatible like East and Central Africa.<\/p>\n

Critics hold that Mr Museveni\u2019s near four-decade presidency often associated with dictatorship has been largely conditioned by electoral irregularities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, if I am a democratic dictator\u2026then it must be an interesting one. I always win elections on the first round. Majority of Ugandans think that my party (NRM) and what I represent is good,\u201d Mr Museveni said adding that \u201cto call such a person an autocrat is really not serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

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