President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda

wish quick recovery to those who were injured and are now undergoing treatment.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has emerged as a model of modern African leadership.

President Museveni has made it his mission to ensure peace and stability, adequate social services, support for farmers and diversification of the economy.

Museveni was born probably in Rwanda and came to Uganda with his mother, grew in Ntungamo in south-west Uganda, shown here in red.

it must be remembered that Museveni was also trying gain roots to his ancestors in Rwanda.

Yoweri Museveni was born in Ntungamo, in southwestern Uganda, to a wealthy cattle herder.

The name Museveni was given to him in honor of the Seventh Battalion of the British colonial army, in which thousands of Ugandans served during World War II (1939-1945.

When Major General Idi Amin overthrew Obote’s government in 1971, Museveni fled to Tanzania, where Obote had received political asylum.

Museveni was made the Minister of Defense and then the Minister of Regional Cooperation during the interim period leading up to elections in 1980.

Under this system, Museveni was elected to a five-year term as president in 1996.

Museveni was reelected in 2001 and after the constitution was amended to allow him to seek a third term, he was reelected in 2006.

In the 1990s, Museveni was fêted by the west as part of a.

These are heady days for the former guerilla who runs Uganda.

Wafula Oguttu), Museveni had previously stated that he considered the idea of clinging to office for "15 or more" years ill-advised, and made known that he "is a member of a club of African leaders inebriated with power", comparing himself with Robert Mugabe and Charles Taylor.

Tanzania in 1971 when Idi Amin toppled Milton Obote, returning in 1980.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Museveni was involved in the war that toppled Idi AminIdi Amin Idi Amin was an army officer and President of Uganda.

With the notable exception of northern areas, Museveni has brought relative stability and economic growth to a country that has endured decades of government mismanagement, rebel activity and civil warCivil war A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight for political power or control o.

In the mid to late 1990s, Museveni was lauded by the WestWestern world The term Western World or "the West" can have multiple meanings depending on its context.

Early life and career (1944–72)Born in Ntungamoin western Uganda, Museveni is a member of the Nyankoleethnic group.

In 1970, Museveni joined the intelligence serviceMilitary intelligence Military intelligence, is a military discipline that focuses on the gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of in.

in January 1971, Museveni fled to TanzaniaTanzania OverviewTanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country on the east coast of Africa.

Museveni was appointed to an 11-member Executive Council, chaired by Yusuf LuleYusuf Lule Yusuf Kironde Lule was interim president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979.

The push for KampalaWhile supposedly involved in the peace negotiations, Museveni had courted General MobutuMobutu Sese Seko SummaryMobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga , known commonly as Mobutu, or Joseph Mobutu-Sese Seko, born Joseph.

President 1986 A Nyankole from south-west Uganda, Museveni was educated at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, then a leading centre of radical student activity in East Africa, and briefly joined the Ugandan civil service before going into exile after the Amin coup of 1971.

A broadly based government was formed, but Museveni remained hostile to multi-party elections, which he associated with ethnic competition and violence.

1944 (Museveni is reportedly unsure of the exact year of his birth), in Ntungamo, Ankole, Uganda; son of Mzeyi Amosi Kaguta (a cattle rancher) and Esteri Kokundeka; married Janet Kataha; children: four.

Yoweri Museveni was born in a village in the Ankole province of southwestern Uganda.

At the tender age of nine, Museveni was sent to boarding school, and he attended high school and took preparatory college classes at Ntare School in Mbarara, the district capital.

Museveni took shelter in Tanzania, where he formed the Front for National Salvation (FRONASA), a group of exiles determined to oust Amin.

Museveni took the important job of defense minister in the Military Commission and was given the task of routing Amin's army.

Museveni was sworn in as Uganda's new president on January 29, 1986.

Museveni was elected president of the powerful Organization of African States.

It was estimated that one million Ugandans were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (commonly referred to as the HIV virus, which causes AIDS), even though Museveni was aggressive in his attempts to use state power to control the contagion.

Export profits rose after Museveni took control, but Uganda remained in the grip of an enormous debt incurred by the current president and his predecessors.

And Museveni was calling for a revised constitution.

Museveni takes credit for reducing absolute poverty from 56 per cent to 44 per cent, and increasing school enrollment from 2.

Museveni was the victor--this time with 69.

Generally considered a leading African statesman and power broker, Museveni has maintained that Africans must stop blaming colonialism for their problems and attempt to operate without Western aid.

3 pages Museveni is promoting himself as a democrat in Uganda's free election, but is using his presidential power and control of the state media to virtually assure himself victory over his opponent, Paul Ssemogerere.

Though ruling with an iron hand, Museveni has brought Uganda peace.

Museveni was born to cattle farmers and attended missionary schools.

Museveni was reelected in 2001 and again in 2006 after a constitutional amendment passed the previous year had eliminated established term limits for the presidency.

Recently, Museveni has turned into a pop psychologist.

PPRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked the Judiciary to put in place a mechanism to deal with judges who make biased judgments.

Museveni was re-elected in 2001 with 70 per cent of the vote in a relatively fair election.

Olukya KAMPALA, Jan 27 AAP - Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has thanked an Australian.

Newspaper article from: World Paper (USA); 11/12/1997; document.

Early life and career (1944–72)Museveni was born in Ntungamo in south-west Uganda, shown here in red.

Museveni in power (1986–96)Museveni meets with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in October 1987.

That Museveni is fluent in English, Luganda, Runyankole and Swahili often helped him forward his message.

International recognitionMuseveni has won praise from Western governments for his adherence to IMF Structural adjustment programs, ie.

In the 1990s, Museveni was fêted by the west as part of a new generation of African leaders.

From the mid-1990s, Museveni was seen to exemplify a new breed of African leadership, the antithesis of the "big men" who had dominated politics in the continent since independence.

This section from a New York Times article in 1997 is illustrative of the high esteem in which Museveni was held by the western media, governments and academics:These are heady days for the former guerilla who runs Uganda.

The Uganda-based Tutsi-dominated Rwandese Patriotic Front rebel group were close allies of the NRA, and once Museveni had solidified his hold on central power, he lent his support to their cause.

newspapers today: Kenya Times Uganda's President-elect Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was yesterday sworn in for a five-year term in.

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is scheduled to arrive here Wednesday to begin a four-day state visit to strengthen bilateral ties, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Janet Museveni is Patron of the chapter.

Museveni was named defence minister and later minister for regional cooperation under various administrations.

Museveni was sworn in as president on 29 January, promising to implement a 10-point programme for development and democracy.

Regional politicsMuseveni has been deeply involved in regional politics.

In a turnaround from his longstanding opposition to pluralism, Museveni came out strongly in favour of multipartyism.

Kampala — PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has donated sh100m towards the construction of two storey office blocks for Nebbi town council.

Kampala — RIVER Mpanga is to generate electricity to serve areas in Kitagwenda County in Kamwenge district, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

Anne Mugisa and Hillary Nsambu Kampala — PPRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked the Judiciary to put in place a mechanism to deal with judges who make biased judgments.

Museveni was involved in the war that toppled Idi Amin's (1971–79) rule and the rebellion that subsequently led to the demise of Milton Obote's (1980–85) regime.

With the notable exception of northern areas, Museveni has brought relative stability and economic growth to a country that has endured decades of government mismanagement, rebel activity and civil war.

In the mid to late 1990s, Museveni was lauded by the West as part of a new generation of African leaders.

Museveni was born in Ntungamo in south-west Uganda, shown here in red.

Born in Ntungamo in western Uganda, Museveni is a member of the Nyankole ethnic group.

In 1970, Museveni joined the intelligence service of Ugandan President Milton Obote.

When Major General Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in January 1971, Museveni fled to Tanzania with other exiles, including the deposed president.

Museveni was appointed to an 11-member Executive Council, chaired by Yusuf Lule.

Museveni was named the new Minister of State for Defence in the new UNLF government.

In November, Museveni was reshuffled from the Ministry of Defence to the Ministry of Regional Cooperation, with Binaisa himself taking over the key defence role.

While supposedly involved in the peace negotiations, Museveni had courted General Mobutu of Zaire in an attempt to forestall the involvement of Zairean forces in support of Okello's military junta.

Museveni was sworn in as president on 29 January, 1986.

Museveni was sworn in as president three days later on 29 January.

Museveni meets with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in October 1987.

The so-called "Movement" system, which Museveni said claimed the loyalty of every Ugandan, would be a cornerstone in politics for nearly twenty years.

Museveni was blamed for complicity in the September 1990 invasion and/or not having control of his army.

From the beginning of Museveni's presidency, he drew strong support from the Bantu-speaking south and southwest, where Museveni had his base.

Museveni was sworn in as president for the second time on 12 May 1996.

Ssemogerere also accused Museveni of being a Rwandan, a statement often repeated by Museveni's opponents because of his birthplace near the Uganda-Rwanda border, and his supposedly Rwandan origins (Museveni is an ethnic Munyankole, kin to the Banyarwanda of Rwanda), and his army of being dominated by Rwandans, which included current Rwandan president Paul Kagame.

Museveni has won praise from Western governments for his adherence to IMF Structural adjustment programs, ie.

Museveni was elected chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1991 and 1992.

Museveni was lauded for his affirmative action program for women in the country, he was served by a female vice-president, Specioza Kazibwe, for nearly a decade, and has done much to encourage women to go to college.

On the other hand, Museveni has resisted calls for greater women's family land rights (the right of women to own a share of their matrimonial homes.

led to the fall of that monstrous regime.

which many Ugandans had been drafted.

accommodate ideas that were often opposed to his.

10 per cent for the last nine years.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was born in 1944 in the then sub-county of Ntungamo in the county of Rwampara in western Uganda.

In 1967, students from Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda at the University of Dar es Salaam formed the University Students African Revolutionary Force (USARF) and Museveni was elected chairman for the whole time he was at the University.

In 1971, after Idi Amins coup, Museveni was instrumental in the formation of FRONASA (the Front for National Salvation) comprising Ugandan exile groups that, together with the Tanzanian Peoples Defence Forces, ousted Idi Amin in 1979.

Since assuming the presidency in January 1986, Yoweri Museveni has provided one of the most clear-headed leaderships in Africa and has been hailed as one of the few beacons of hope for Africa.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is a proponent of a fair World trade system, which he sees as the solution to the lopsided global economy.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is married to Janet Kataaha Museveni.

Museveni was popularly reelected in 2001 and 2006, after the constitution was amended to allow him to stand for a third presidential term.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is the current President of the republic of Uganda and is believed by many capable of winning the February 23rd 2006 presidential elections.

Museveni was born in 1944 in Kyamate, Uganda to Amos Kaguta and Esteri Kokundeka (RIP.

A political activist since his early school days, Museveni had been one of the leaders in the anti-Amin resistance of 1971-1979 that had led to the fall of Amin.

After Idi Amin's coup in 1971, Museveni was instrumental in forming Fronasa (the Front for National Salvation.

Being an incumbent, Museveni is expected to reap all benefits of an incumbent President, which find him with more financial resources, and being more known than other candidates.

Museveni has also been praised for liberalising the economy and he appealed to the Asian business community expelled by Idi Amin to return and invest in Uganda.

Having been involved in toppling two presidents and winning two landslide presidential elections, Museveni has riled many with his not-so-secretive belief that he is the only person to lead Uganda.

Museveni has in turn questioned their “interference in the local matters of our governance.

Museveni has also spent a reported $1.

While 33% of Uganda’s population was chronically poor in 2001 when Museveni was last elected, 38% of Ugandans are chronically poor as he seeks another mandate.

While this may be taken to be business as usual for the 61 year old who has been president of Uganda since 1986, this year's presidential swearing in as Museveni said presents a landmark in more ways than one.

After 20 years of ruling the country under a no-party movement 'system', Museveni is going to lead the next five years under a multi-party system of government.

Museveni is also going to be a leader of government when the opposition (which is this time free to operate legally) claims he is leading an illegitimate government because the Supreme Court ruled that the February 2006 presidential polls were neither free nor fair and the electoral laws were not followed in conducting the elections.

President Museveni said at his swearing in that his government will prioritize solving the electricity shortage problem, which he blames on the opposition, environmentalists and donor countries who decampained the building of Bujagali hydro electricity dam.

Keeping such NRM members who will not get positions loyal to the party and Museveni is going to be a big task that Museveni and NRM must rise up to.

Delivering on camping promises/manifestoEven those who don't like Museveni and the NRM silently accept that Museveni had a good manifesto during the 2006 presidential campaigns.

UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was the perfect choice to dodge the recurring questions about the unattended challenges that befuddle Africa and its 967 million people.

Museveni had been involved in distabilising governments in Uganda from 1971.

As President of Uganda since January 29, 1986, Museveni has joined the coterie of sit-tight African leaders who believe they alone have the wisdom to solve their nations problems.

Museveni has dedicated the rest of his efforts to civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, and the suspicious sending of his peace keeping force to Somalia, ahead of an African Union planned force.

President Yoweri Museveni is the head of state for Uganda.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is responsible for orchestrating genocide in Northern Uganda, where he has incarcerated nearly two million people in concentration camps, euphemistically known as “protected villages.

By Raymond Baguma UGANDA faces challenges with donor funds as it pursues development projects, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

African Business - Museveni is good for business: Ugandas President Yoweri Museveni will continue to lead the nation for another five years following his victory over rival.

UGANDA faces challenges with donor funds as it pursues development projects, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

APA-Kampala (Uganda) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Friday that Uganda’s economy was currently capable of sustaining itself as evidenced by the.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has promoted 56 Prisons officers to different ranks.