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	Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south.
		In a measure ostensibly designed to reduce sectarian violence, political parties were restricted in their activities from 1986.
		Uganda is divided into 70 districts, spread across four administrative divisions: North, East, South and West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uganda (1376 words)

	Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Uganda is a country in east central Africa.
		Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt.
		Ongoing Ugandan involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, corruption within the government, and slippage in the government's determination to press reforms raise doubts about the continuation of strong growth.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/u/ug/uganda.html (721 words)

	Politics of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Politics of Uganda is based on a democratic parliamentary system with universal suffrage for all citizens over 18 years of age.
		The head of state in Uganda is the President, who is elected by a popular vote to a five-year term.
		On 4 May 2005, the Ugandan Parliament voted to conduct a referendum on the reintroduction of party politics in Uganda.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Politics_of_Uganda (502 words)

	Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Uganda, a country in east-central Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south.
		Little is known about the history of the region now covered by Uganda until the arrival of the Arabs and Europeans in the mid 1800s.
		Uganda is divided into 56 districts, spread across four administrative divisions: North, East, South and West.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Uganda (1208 words)

	Politics of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uganda accepts compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction, with reservations.
		Only one political organization, the Movement (formerly the National Resistance Movement) is allowed to operate unfettered.
		The referendum was held on July 28, 2005 and Ugandans voted for a return to multi-party politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Uganda (497 words)

	UW Press - : Women and Politics in Uganda
		Uganda has attracted much attention and political visibility for its significant economic recovery after a catastrophic decline.
		In her groundbreaking book, Aili Mari Tripp provides extensive data and analysis of patterns of political behavior and institutions by focusing on the unique success of indigenous women's organizations.
		is associate professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
	www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/3090.htm (157 words)

	Uganda - History and Politics
		Final details concerning the administration of Uganda were settled by a series of agreements in 1966, the most comprehensive of which guaranteed special status to Buganda, including the continuation of its social and political system.
		By 1979 Uganda was bankrupt, in the grip of internecine warfare, and the government dependent on massive loans from Arab states friendly to Amin.
		He believes that Uganda’s political parties are trained by the country’s violent past and that they could revive the ethnic rivalries and hatred that caused the violence.
	www.iss.co.za /AF/profiles/uganda/Politics.html (4098 words)

	Politics of Uganda -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Politics of Uganda is based on a (Click link for more info and facts about democratic) democratic parliamentary system with universal (A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment) suffrage for all citizens over 18 years of age.
		Uganda accepts compulsory (A court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations) International Court of Justice jurisdiction, with reservations.
		Only one political organization, the (A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something) Movement (formerly the National Resistance Movement) is allowed to operate unfettered.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/politics_of_uganda.htm (652 words)

	Party Politics in Uganda, 1963-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the case of Uganda, the country is roughly divided between two major peoples, the Nilotic in the north and the Bantu in the south.
		Because political parties were not allowed to operate actively, election candidates had to stand as independents, even though they might belong to a registered political party.
		Political parties are allowed to exist, but not allowed to campaign or function as a political party.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/9-CentralEastAfrica/98-Uganda/98-Uganda63-00.htm (2265 words)

	WHEN HENS BEGIN TO CROW
		Uganda has had some notable successes: designated parliamentary seats for women from each of the districts (2) (1995 Constitution); a national machinery for gender (1988) (3), and a National Gender Policy (1997); one-third women members in Local Council executives (Local Governments Act, 1997); and the first woman vice-president in Africa, Dr. Speciosa Wandire Kazibwe.
		Whether the presence of women in politics in Uganda is at the pleasure of the NRM or sustainable in the long run is still open to debate.
		Tamale scrutinizes her material in an analysis that is grounded in the "dialectical relationship between gender, class, ethnicity, religion, imperialism and neocolonialism [that] is especially pertinent for an analysis of gender relations in the African context" (p.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v3/v3i3a7.htm (924 words)

	Uganda's "Benevolent" Dictatorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After being sworn in as president of Uganda in January 1986, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni proclaimed the era he was ushering in was more than the usual "changing of the guard" to which the people of Uganda had become accustomed.
		The turmoil in Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s yielded human rights violations on a scale nearly unmatched in postcolonial Africa: moreover, civil war and social strife left orphans and widows in their wake, and economic dislocation removed essentials like sugar, soap, and wheat flour from the market stalls.
		Uganda today recalls the images of the early days of African independence, when the "founding fathers," such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, and Jomo Kenyatta, enjoyed a legitimacy derived from their participation in the struggle for liberation from colonial hegemony.
	www.udayton.edu /~rwanda/articles/uganda.html (3070 words)

	IDS: Uganda learns politics via radio (World, 10/23/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But in Uganda, where literacy rates are low and rural areas are often without electricity, radio shows can be a powerful tool for generating political participation, journalism graduate student Peter Mwesige said in a speech Tuesday afternoon in Woodburn Hall.
		Uganda, a nation of 23 million people located in central Africa, has strict limits on formal political participation, such as political parties and rallies, according to a U.S. State Department report.
		Yet Uganda's radio shows are full of criticism of the government and are a vehicle for debate over the country's future, he said.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=19208 (700 words)

	myUganda - About Uganda > Government > Politics \| Uganda's Information Portal
		Uganda's fight for self rule saw the formation of various ingenious political parties in early 1950s.
		Although, these different political organisations were united in calling for immediate independed from the British colonila rule, they were divergent in the way they persevied the leadership of the newly independent Uganda.
		Politics of Uganda - Obote's Political Showdown >>
	www.myuganda.co.ug /govt/politics.php (308 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Women and Politics in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Uganda is an African country that has attracted great interest and political visibility (witness President Clinton's 1998 visit there on his African visit), having gone through a significant economic recovery after a catastropic decline.
		Extensive data on the success and patterns of political behavior and institutions is of great interest, and this includes some of their uniquely successful indigenous women's organizations.
		Aili Mari Tripp is an associate professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0852558333 (281 words)

	Encyclopedia: Politics of Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The President of Uganda is the head of state in Uganda.
		A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives...
		The National Resistance Movement (NRM) is a political organisation, which claims to not be a party, in Uganda.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-Uganda (2185 words)

	Uganda backs multiparty politics early results show - Boston.com - Africa - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Very few Ugandans voted in a referendum on changing their country's political system, but early results on Friday showed the majority heeded President Yoweri Museveni's call to bring back parties after 19 years.
		He banned parties when he seized power in 1986, but now says the country is developed enough for political competition.
		Donors have been pushing for a return to parties politics and some have withheld aid over concerns about democracy, including the scrapping of presidential term limits that would have barred Museveni from running for re-election next year.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/07/29/uganda_backs_multiparty_politics_early_results_show (372 words)

	The Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		UPCnet is a new front by the Uganda Peoples Congress to tell citizens of Uganda and men and women of goodwill in all countries about the plight of the people of Uganda under a dictatorship.
		The referendum in the year 1999 or 2000 when the dictatiorship shall have been the sole participant and voice in the politics of Uganda, is disguised as choosing and adopting a system of governence.
		The real objective, in fact, is to remove the political Parties altogether from Uganda's body politic and to obliterate from the Constitution the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and thereby enable the dictatorship to conscript, by law, every citizen as members of its Party.
	upcparty.net /upcnet (1359 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - Uganda \| PBS
		Uganda is a "no-party" democracy, and gender quotas guarantee women seats in government.
		Uganda is still one of the poorest countries in the world, but it is also one of the greenest and most fertile.
		However, there is a political crisis stirring in Uganda which threatens the country's relative peace and stability, and ironically the man at the center of the storm is a longtime U.S. ally and distinguished statesman, President Yoweri Museveni.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/uganda (2806 words)

	Ugandabib
		The path of a genocide: the Rwanda crisis from Uganda to Zaire.
		Mujaju, A.B. The Demise of UPCYL and the Rise of NUYO in Uganda.
		The shrinking political arena: participation and ethnicity in African politics, with a case study of Uganda.
	www.univie.ac.at /handbuch-afrika/laender/Ugandabib.htm (1233 words)

	AllRefer.com - Uganda - Power Politics in Buganda \| Ugandan Information Resource
		The spark that ignited wider opposition to Governor Cohen's reforms was a 1953 speech in London in which the secretary of state for colonies referred to the possibility of a federation of the three East African territories (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika), similar to that established in central Africa.
		Political parties and local interest groups were riddled with divisions and rivalries, but they shared one concern: they were determined not to be dominated by Buganda.
		In 1960 a political organizer from Lango, Milton Obote, seized the initiative and formed a new party, the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), as a coalition of all those outside the Roman Catholic-dominated DP who opposed Buganda hegemony.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/uganda/uganda19.html (1336 words)

	Uganda on the Internet
		Mount Elgon is a solitary extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya.
		"Uganda Martyrs is fully recognised by the Ministry of Education in Uganda and its degrees are confered autonomously..." http://www.fiuc.org/umu/
		"Uganda's longest running violent conflict has thus far spanned a thirteen-year time period from 1986 to 2000 and continues to this day." "Whether in protected villages or at home, the Acholi have been powerless to stop the LRA from burning their homes, schools, and clinics." Published by the Tabula Rasa Institute, Washington, DC.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/uganda.html (7792 words)

	Government, Politics, Law: Uganda Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
		The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) "is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the worldwide arms race, achieving complete nuclear disarmament, and avoiding the use of nuclear weapons for any purpose." Whatever one's views are on its goals, a search of the site yields valuable information on a country's armament found only with difficulty elsewhere.
		On 8th October 1995, the New Constitution of the Republic of Uganda was enacted.
		It was formed by a core of founder members who had worked mainly with the Uganda Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights 1987 -1994.
	loc.gov /rr/international/amed/uganda/resources/uganda-government.html (1550 words)

	The politics of staying poor in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		policies and political action should as far as possible be directed towards challenging the neo-patrimonial forms of political rule that are increasingly characterising politics in Uganda and which pose a significant threat to the long-term sustainability of the poverty agenda
		the long term politics of commitment to poverty reduction should be re-conceptualised in terms of a ‘contract’ rather than in terms of ‘ownership’.
		The notion of a political contract can be used to identify those policy reforms that are genuinely embedded and long-term — particularly universal primary education, decentralisation and a broad commitment to the rural majority — and it draws attention to those yet to be brought into the contract and those included but on adverse terms
	www.eldis.org /static/DOC13792.htm (357 words)

	Baganda on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Their traditional homeland is Buganda, an area of central and southern Uganda.
		The changing face of authoritarianism in Africa: the case of Uganda.
		Roundup: 700-year-old kingdom survives political tensions in Uganda.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Baganda.asp (355 words)

	Women Emerging: A Tribute to Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As a result, women's organizations expanded their agendas, became a significant political force and challenged the system of political patronage that was split along ethnic, religious and regional lines.
		Aili Mari Tripp, author of Women and Politics in Uganda, is an associate professor in political science and women's studies and the Director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the United States.
		Uganda Women's Network is a membership network of different women's non-governmental organizations, which was set up in 1993, with the main purpose of uplifting the status of Ugandan women through addressing critical concerns.
	www.theartroom-sf.com /WomenEmerging.htm (3818 words)

	POLITICS-UGANDA: A Road to Hell, Paved With Good Intentions?
		GULU, Northern Uganda, Mar 26 (IPS) - Walking in the eerie darkness engulfing Noah's Ark, a centre that children in northern Uganda escape to for fear of being kidnapped by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, it is easy to see why so many in the region are eager for peace.
		You don't repay death with another death," explains Rwot David Achana, chief of the Acholis in Gulu district which is at the centre of fighting between the LRA and government.
		Talks are also underway to end conflict in northern Uganda, although the peace process has appeared shaky since efforts to reach an agreement on Dec. 31 failed.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=28032 (1149 words)

	afrol News - East Africa
		Political parties, banned since the mid-1980s, thus will be reintroduced before next year's elections.
		afrol News - Human rights activists fear that Uganda's gays and lesbians may face a round of even tougher repression as the Kampala parliament last week approved a constitutional amendment that criminalises marriage between persons of the same sex.
		Uganda already is one of the countries that practice the strongest sanctions against homosexuals worldwide.
	www.afrol.com /regions/east_africa (541 words)

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