Relationship dossier
Malawi
Uganda
Relationship assessment
Malawi and Uganda have pursued practical cooperation through agreements covering several sectors.
Malawi toward Uganda
+20Malawi signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Uganda during President Yoweri Museveni’s 2018 visit, covering areas including agriculture, tourism, trade and investment.
Uganda toward Malawi
+20Uganda signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Malawi during President Yoweri Museveni’s 2018 visit, covering areas including agriculture, tourism, trade and investment.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship includes concrete bilateral agreements in several practical sectors, indicating a cooperative framework. The known initiatives are limited in scope, and their implementation and durability are unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Malawi and Uganda have pursued bilateral cooperation through agreements signed during Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s 2018 visit to Malawi. The agreements covered areas including agriculture, tourism, trade and investment. These steps indicate concrete but bounded cooperation; the scope and subsequent implementation of the arrangements are unclear.
Key developments
Malawi and Uganda signed bilateral cooperation agreements during President Yoweri Museveni’s visit to Malawi, covering areas including agriculture, tourism, trade and investment.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the 2018 bilateral agreements are unclear.
- Details of cooperation beyond the areas covered by those agreements are limited.