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  List of state leaders in 1985 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prime Minister - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium (1981-1992)
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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.
Uganda takes its name from the historical Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala.
Uganda has been hailed as a rare success story in the fight against HIV and AIDS, widely being viewed as the most effective national response to the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
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 Prime Minister of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister is the Ugandan head of government.
The position of Prime Minister was first used in Uganda after independence was declared in 1962.
A republic was formed in 1963 with Mutesa II as president and prime minister, Milton Obote.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda   (95 words)

  
 History of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Negotiations between the Okello government and the NRA were conducted in Nairobi in the fall of 1985, with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi seeking a cease-fire and a coalition government in Uganda.
In 1996, Uganda was a key supporter of the overthrow of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko in the First Congo War in favor of rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
Between 1998 and 2003, the Ugandan army was involved in the Second Congo War in the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo and the government continues to support rebel groups such as the Movement for the Liberation of Congo and some factions of the Rally for Congolese Democracy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Uganda   (940 words)

  
 Uganda - History
UGANDA WAS ONE of the lesser-known African countries until the 1970s when Idi Amin Dada rose to the presidency.
In Uganda it was African producers who grew the cotton and coffee that brought a higher standard of living, financed the education of their children, and led to increased expectations for the future.
The national government was presided over by a prime minister whose principal role appeared to be that of a broker, trading patronage and development projects--such as roads, schools, and dispensaries--to local or regional interest groups in return for political support.
www.countrystudies.us /uganda/2.htm   (640 words)

  
 Uganda's "Benevolent" Dictatorship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Country profiles | Country profile: Uganda
In the 1970s and 1980s Uganda was notorious for its human rights abuses, first during the military dictatorship of Idi Amin from 1971-79 and then after the return to power of Milton Obote, who had been ousted by Amin.
Uganda's leader since 1986, Yoweri Museveni won the country's first direct presidential election 10 years later and was re-elected in 2001.
Uganda has seen a mushrooming of private radio and television stations since the government loosened its control of the media in 1993.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1069166.stm   (750 words)

  
 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
Uganda is a land-locked country lying on the equator in central Africa.
Uganda launched a major military operation (known as 'Operation Iron Fist') against the LRA in March 2002, to which the LRA responded by intensifying their attacks in northern Uganda.
Uganda relies heavily on agriculture, the basis of livelihood for 80% of the population.
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 Uganda (10/05)
Uganda's population is predominately rural, and its population density highest in the southern regions.
Uganda maintains an embassy in the United States at 5909 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011 (tel.
Another rebel group operating in western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the Rwenzori Mountains, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), emerged as a localized threat in 1996 and inflicted substantial suffering on the population in the area.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2963.htm   (3451 words)

  
 Uganda prime minister to speak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Apolo Nsibambi, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, will speak at Cornell Monday, July 2, at noon in the Founder's Room of Anabel Taylor Hall.
Nsibambi was education minister of Uganda from May 1998 until April of 1999, when he was named prime minister by President Yoweri Museveni, in a cabinet reshuffle.
Nsibambi was one of the few educators and intellectual leaders who chose to remain in Uganda and struggled to keep higher education alive as his country endured two decades of civil war and chaos in the 1970s and 1980s.
www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/01/6.28.01/Nsibambi.html   (292 words)

  
 Uganda
Kampala, the capital city of Uganda is spread over ten hills and derives its name from a kiganda expression "kasozi k'empala" (the hill of antelopes).
Uganda is based on the kingdom of Buganda, in Central Africa, which was declared a British protectorate in 1894.
Uganda Railways is situated at the one end (Jinja, Port Bell end) of Nasser Road, Kampala.
us-africa.tripod.com /uganda.html   (1144 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Uganda's first prime minister dies at 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Milton Obote, Uganda's first prime minister and two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, while others blamed him for the deaths of as many as 500,000 people and said they would not mourn him.
Uganda Prime Minister Milton Obote died in a hospital in South Africa.
The son of a chief and farmer in the Langi tribal area of northern Uganda, Obote won his first legislative seat in 1958.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-10-11-oboteobit_x.htm?csp=34   (615 words)

  
 Uganda: Breaking the circle: Protecting human rights in the northern war zone - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Although at present in northern Uganda the LRA is subjecting unarmed civilians to gross human rights abuses, this does not exonerate the government from addressing human rights violations by its own forces and from taking action where its duty to protect civilians has not been fully discharged.
Uganda has ratified or acceded to all the major international human rights treaties and is accordingly bound by them [9].
In the situation in northern Uganda, where stated government policy is to promote respect for human rights, making it widely known that a complaint has been made is seen by many activists and LCs as a safety measure reducing the risk of retaliation by particular units or individual soldiers.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR590011999?open&of=ENG-UGA   (21391 words)

  
 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper--Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan--Table of Contents
Uganda's over-arching national planning document is the Poverty Eradication Action Plan, signalling poverty eradication as the fundamental goal of the Government.
It is generally agreed that the quality of education in Uganda declined seriously between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s, and the increased enrolment is now straining the system.
It was recognised that in Uganda, as in most other countries, there could be a tendency to neglect the interests of the poor unless a conscious effort was made; this is one implication of the observation that powerlessness is one aspect of poverty.
www.imf.org /external/np/prsp/2000/uga/01   (10672 words)

  
 info: FIRST MINISTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
ministers have denied that the Prime Minister was undermined by his first defeat at the hands of MPs a defeat for the Prime Minister'.
In Canada, First Ministers is a term that refers to all Canadian Heads of Government, including the Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers.
In Germany, the first minister in the federal states is known as the Minister-President.
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 Uganda's first prime minister, and two-time president, dead at 80
KAMPALA, Uganda Milton Obote, Uganda's first prime minister and two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, while others blamed him for the deaths of as many as 500,000 people and said they would not mourn him.
The son of a chief and farmer in the Langi tribal area of northern Uganda, Mr.
He was Uganda's first prime minister following independence in 1962.
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UGANDA: Former prime minister of Toro sentenced to death
UGANDA: Former prime minister of Toro sentenced to death
NAIROBI, 13 Sep 2001 (IRIN) - The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of Toro, John Sanyu Katuramu, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kampala on Wednesday for the murder of Toro's Prince Happy Kijanangoma, 'The New Vision' government-owned newspaper reported.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=11395&...&SelectCountry=UGANDA   (465 words)

  
 HRW: Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda: V. STATE RESPONSE
Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi told Human Rights Watch that women have a “unique opportunity to be in government, the legislature and even at the local level and that affects the nature of legislation.
In a study conducted on behalf of the Uganda Land Alliance, the Makerere Institute of Social Research stated: “Customary tenure has evolved in deference or transfer of authority to men and the clan is used to protect this evolution.
Minister of Gender, Labor and Social Development Zoe Bakoku Bakoru asserted that Ugandan women’s legal awareness was high and that there had been a significant increase in women’s use of the courts.
www.hrw.org /reports/2003/uganda0803/6.htm   (15380 words)

  
 Uganda Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Travellers are flocking to Uganda's beautiful mountains, trekking opportunities and communities of mountain gorillas.
Kampala is now the modern, bustling capital of a new Uganda, a country with one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.
Parts of Uganda should be considered off-limits due to a highly volatile security situation.
www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/africa/uganda   (242 words)

  
 Summit Daily News for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - News
The minister's chief lieutenant in Hoima, Maja Magie, told him he was on the minister's property and asked whom the cows belonged to.
The minister had long abandoned this farm, and squatters had long ago started encroaching on its fringes with their fields of cash crops and banana orchards.
The minister, as I call him, and whom everyone I met referred to him, is Henry Kajura - the deputy prime minister of Uganda - one of president Museveni's confidants and close friends.
www.summitdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040111/NEWS/401110103   (1302 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962.
Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since seizing power 29 January 1986); Prime Minister Apollo NSIBAMBI (since 5 April 1999); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government; the prime minister assists the president in the supervision of the cabinet
Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces; Ugandan refugees have fled the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) into the southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; LRA forces have also attacked Kenyan villages across the border
www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ug.html   (1294 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - AIDS and Slavery at 39,000 Feet
Was it a coincidence a U.S. senator and Uganda's prime minister met on Dean Jones' flight to London?
A stewardess leaned closer and spoke to the prime minister.
As dawn broke and we were served breakfast, I told the prime minister of the work of Christian Rescue Committee, how we transported Jews, Christians, and other persecuted people to places of safety.
www.learnathome.com /526054.html   (725 words)

  
 Uganda - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
* Uganda never really suffered a great influx of European settlers, instead the existing tribes were encouraged to grow cash crops for export through their own co-operative organisations, as a consequence of this nationalist organisations were late on the scene and kept very exclusive; so exclusive that when independence was being discussed Baganda considered secession.
Kabaka, the king of Baganda was the new nation's president, and Milton Obote was its prime minister.
It was led by Yoweri Museveni, he had served as a defense minister from 1979 to 1980.
www.africanet.com /africanet/country/uganda   (1425 words)

  
 Uganda
Uganda, twice the size of Pennsylvania, is in East Africa.
Uganda also signed a peace accord with the Congo in Sept. 2002 and finally withdrew its remaining troops from the country in May 2003.
Up to 1.5 million people in northern Uganda have been displaced because of the fighting and the fear that their children will be abducted.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108066.html   (1153 words)

  
 President of Uganda World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The President of Uganda is the head of state in Uganda.
The role began as a largely ceremonial position, with the Prime Minister holding the true power.
In 1966 Prime Minister Milton Obote suspended the Ugandan constitution and became both Prime Minister and President.
www.mirchigold.com /index.php?title=President_of_Uganda   (133 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)

  
 Cornell News: Uganda Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Ugandan prime minister to speak at Cornell on economic reform Sept. 7
Nsibambi was education minister of Uganda from May 1998 until last April, when he was named prime minister by President Yoweri Museveni, in a cabinet reshuffle.
Nsibambi was one of the few educators and intellectual leaders who chose to remain in Uganda and struggled to keep higher education alive as Uganda endured two decades of civil war and chaos in the 1970s and 1980s.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Sept99/Ugandan.pm.PR.html   (319 words)

  
 Uganda - 16 May 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
And yet critical facilitators of development revolve around getting accountable, visionary and enterprising leaders who must be countervailed and enriched by non-sycomphatic and enlightened followers, a vibrant civil society and a strong private sector.
I am happy to inform you that Uganda, which collapsed under the leadership of brutal political robbers, has regained political sobriety and economic recovery largely through focusing attention on accountable leadership and followership.
We must follow Uganda's example by admitting the existence of the HIV/AIDS scourge; by not stigmatising the people suffering from the problem; and by seeking behaviour change especially in the area of culture under which some men have been marrying the wives of their deceased brothers who may have died of HIV/AIDS.
www.un.org /events/ldc3/conference/address/uganda16_e.htm   (1069 words)

  
 Morehouse College: News Releases
He was also minister of education, sports, and public service, before becoming Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Nsibambi, who is conducting a week-long visit of the U.S., also is the keynote speaker at the East African Trade Summit, which will be held all day Thursday (Sept. 2, 1999) at the Carter Presidential Center.
Approximately 60 youth from Uganda, who are living in the U.S. and Canada, will attend the convention and then tour Morehouse's campus on Sunday.
www.morehouse.edu /News_Releases/archives/1999/nsibambi.html   (275 words)

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