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  Encyclopedia: Yoweri Museveni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni and the NRM failed to turn up to the first round of talks in Dar es Salaam, however, as they were possibly suspicious of Nyere's friendship with Milton Obote.
Museveni served as the chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1991 and 1992.
Museveni won with a landslide 75.5 percent of the vote from a turnout of 72.6% of eligible voters.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yoweri-Museveni   (10452 words)

  
 Yoweri Museveni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni was given his surname in honour of the Seventh Battalion of the British colonial army, in which many Ugandans served during World War II.
Museveni refused to recognise the legitimacy of the new regime, claiming the elections were marred by massive fraud.
Museveni triumphed in the 2001 presidential elections, winning nearly 70% of the vote in a contest with his former personal physician, Colonel Kizza Besigye.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yoweri-Museveni.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Yoweri Museveni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
President Yoweri Museveni recently said the rebels would be defeated but warned it may take until Ma...
President Museveni later said he had instituted a board of inquiry into the circumstances of...
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born 1941) is the President of Uganda (since 1986).
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Yoweri_Museveni   (554 words)

  
 Yoweri Museveni -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born 1944, (Click link for more info and facts about Mbarara) Mbarara, (A landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962) Uganda), (Click link for more info and facts about President of Uganda) President of Uganda since 1986.
During the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, Uganda had one of the highest rates of (Infection by the human immunideficiency virus) HIV infection in the world, but now Uganda's rates are comparatively low, and the country stands as a rare success story in the global battle against the virus.
Members of the Museveni family have been accused of personally profiting from the looting of natural resources in the eastern part of the DRC, and the government has also been criticized for aggravating the (Click link for more info and facts about Ituri conflict) Ituri conflict, a sub-conflict of the Second Congo War.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/yo/yoweri_museveni.htm   (449 words)

  
 Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta
As president, Museveni sought national reconciliation and developed a ‘no-party’ state, in which political party activity and political gatherings were banned.
Museveni was popularly re-elected in 2001 for a second and final presidential term (to 2006).
With virtual war breaking out in Uganda from 1982, after Tanzanian troops withdrew, Museveni and subsequently the NRA fought to remove Obote from power, which was achieved in 1985.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0023908.html   (279 words)

  
 The State House of Uganda:About the President of Uganda
Museveni, who has been politically active since his student days at Ntare School, Mbarara, in south west Uganda, studied political science at the University of Dar es Salaam, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science.
Museveni is a supporter of sports as he was an ardent sportsman himself during his school days.
President Yoweri Museveni has affirmed that the mission of the African Development Bank (ADB) and other development partners should be devoted towards linking the continent’s producers directly with the consumers of the developed world....
www.statehouse.go.ug /president.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Museveni, Yoweri on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni lost to Obote in the 1980 presidential elections, which were widely believed to have been fixed.
Under Museveni, Uganda has intervened in the political affairs of neighboring countries, including Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan; his reputation was tarnished by profiteering and looting by Uganda's forces in the Congo.
Yoweri Museveni lors de la dernière campagne électorale Le président ougandais Yoweri Museveni a déclaré pour la première.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/museveniy1.asp   (897 words)

  
 Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni has been active since his student days at Ntare School, Mbarara; he studied political science and economies at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts.
On February 6th 1981, Museveni went to the bush and, with some thirty young men, organised the National Resistance Army to oppose the tyranny that the Obote regime had unleashed on the population.
Although, Yoweri Museveni is a man with strong opinions and a keen sense of right and wrong, the reality of the chaotic situation, which he found in Uganda when he took power in 1986, meant that he had to accommodate people with views and attitudes which sometimes ran directly counter to his own.Mr.
www.africanconnections.com /MUSEVENI.HTM   (638 words)

  
 Yoweri Museveni - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni has won praise from Western governments for privatising state enterprises, cutting government spending and urging African self-reliance, but has also come in for criticism over Uganda's involvement in conflicts in neighbouring Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Museveni's personal relationship with Paul Kagame led to support of the October 1990 invasion of the Rwandan Patriotic Army that began the Rwandan Civil War, as well as the 1994 invasion that ended the Rwandan Genocide.
Members of the Museveni family have been accused of personally profiting from the looting of natural resources in the eastern part of the DRC, and the government has also been criticized for aggravating the Ituri conflict, a sub-conflict of the Second Congo War.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Yoweri_Museveni   (453 words)

  
 Besigye Does To Museveni What Kaguta Did To Obote Years Ago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni could soon find himself in the position his arch foe, Milton Obote, was in 1980.
Museveni too, had been a UPC and a trusted party member who held a sensitive position in Obote's office.
Museveni should also have managed the Movement as an open forward-looking organisation, with a place for people like Besigye to express themselves without attempting to court-martial them for their views.
www.africanews.com /article432.html   (821 words)

  
 President Museveni - 1998 Africa Prize Laureate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
President Museveni has made it his mission to ensure peace and stability, adequate social services, support for farmers and diversification of the economy.
Museveni became president of Uganda in 1986 after a prolonged struggle against the regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote.
President Museveni faced the huge tasks of revitalizing the country's agricultural economy, bringing a powerful but completely undisciplined army under control, reestablishing relations with bilateral and multilateral donors, developing social services for the country's 18 million people and rebuilding Uganda's economy from the ground up.
www.thp.org /prize/98/museveni.htm   (396 words)

  
 Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Museveni a ensuite travaillé comme ministre pour le nouveau gouvernement.
Yoweri Museveni était convaincu que Obote s’était donné le pouvoir en truquant les élections.
Museveni a su démontrer un leadership hors de l’ordinaire en dirigeant des soldats et des civils dans des conditions difficiles.
www.fsa.ulaval.ca /personnel/vernag/leadership/disk/Ouganda_oshaughnessy.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Museveni, Janet Win AIDS Award
Museveni told the conference that Uganda registered success in the war against the epidemic due to the openness policy backed by the country's leadership, reducing the spread of the disease from over 30% in the 1980s to the current 6%, a State House statement said.
Mrs Museveni said massive sensitive programmes spearheaded by President Museveni, aimed at targeting the vulnerable youth to practice abstinence from sex and faithfulness in marriage, further reduced the AIDS carnage.
Museveni and her husband, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, are the world's leaders in providing national leadership in calling for behavior change as a solution for a raging HIV epidemic."
www.zebrafoundation.org /news4.html   (411 words)

  
 Uganda Executive branch - Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since seizing power 26 January 1986); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
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
Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI elected president; percent of vote - Lt. Gen.
www.indexmundi.com /uganda/executive_branch.html   (301 words)

  
 Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Lieutenant General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the leader of the only political party (National Resistance Movement; NRM), who first came to power in 1986, was elected...
The face of Africa was changing in the late 1990s, and Yoweri Museveni was responsible for much of the change.
By 1997 Museveni was the country's longest-serving president, and Western observers recognized...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114565?tocId=9114565   (473 words)

  
 Dishonest and Hypocritical: Museveni on Sudan (by David Hoile/ESPAC) - Media Monitors Network
Museveni has been stung by unprecedented criticism in the Ugandan parliament that the army was doing nothing to end the insurgency in northern Uganda.(26) The Uganda parliament publicly demonstrated its lack of little faith in the Ugandan military in its request that the government engage South African mercenaries in the conflict against the LRA.
Museveni has himself dismissed rebel attempts to initiate ceasefires.(43) His response to a March 2003 LRA ceasefire call was to state "there is no ceasefire".(44) He was heavily criticised by northern parliamentarians who called on the government to think twice about this as "we feel the rebels are serious".
Museveni ruled without any concession to the democratic process until "no-party" elections were held in 1996, elections in which parties and party electoral organisation were banned, and in which his National Resistance Movement was unhindered.
www.mediamonitors.net /espac30.html   (4088 words)

  
 Inside And Outside Museveni's Envelope Who, when, why, how Kaguta gives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni also promised to pay rent arrears for Obote's house in Lira that the UPDF has occupied for 14 years and wrecked.
And Museveni has taken care of the family of first National Resistance Movement chairman and former president Yusuf Lule, except the outspoken and maverick MP Wasswa Lule.
This Museveni usually reserves for emotional moments and the simple folk, who can only appreciate that the money is from him when he hands it to them himself.
www.africanews.com /article424.html   (1180 words)

  
 Profile: President Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was born into a family of cattle keepers in Ankole, Western Uganda.
Mr Museveni served as minister in the new governments that took power but then claimed that the 1980 elections were rigged.
Mr Museveni is a man with a vision.
www.aegis.com /news/bbc/2001/BB010303.html   (916 words)

  
 BBC News | AFRICA | Profile: President Yoweri Museveni
Mr Museveni has been challenged by an insider, who has struck at the heart of everything Mr Museveni says he stands for.
On 6 February 1981, Mr Museveni went to the bush, and launched a guerrilla struggle based in the swamps of central Uganda.
During this period there were increasing complaints that Mr Museveni was growing more hardline and relying increasingly on a kitchen cabinet of hardline supporters.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1196167.stm   (766 words)

  
 Museveni & Kagame: The McVeigh and Terry Nichols of the Great...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In contrast, Museveni, the president of Uganda, and Kagame, the president of Rwanda, two vicious warmongers reponsible for the worst massacre of millions of innocent Congolese in Congo's recent history (i.e.
Indeed, since Museveni's and Kagame's first invasion, that of October 1996 which brought their former ally, the late Mzee Kabila, to power on May 17, 1997, these two warmongers realized that Congo did not, and still does not, have a strong National Army.
And, when Museveni and Kagame themselves open their mouths it is, most of the time, just to shamlessly spread more lies, misrepresentations, and deceptions.
www.un.int /drcongo/disc20/00000095.htm   (1441 words)

  
 World Economic Forum - Museveni Calls on Africa to Take Initiative in Its Own Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At Manuel’s invitation, Museveni described how Uganda, the world’s fourth largest producer of coffee, has since 1986 doubled its coffee exports, and seen a corresponding decrease in its revenues from US$ 500 million to US$ 100 million.
Museveni said that many African leaders have yet to discover the economic equivalent of Harvey’s discovery that blood circulates in the body – the blood circulation of business – and have often surrendered to the influences of populism.
Instead of planting the roots of economic growth, he said, leaders have accepted the idea that importation of seeds is the means to achieve this.
www.weforum.com /site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Museveni+Calls+on+Africa+to+Take+Initiative+in+Its+Own+Development   (849 words)

  
 Ugandan army promotes Museveni to full general   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Uganda's defence ministry announced Wednesday the elevation of the country's President Yoweri Museveni to the rank of full general, over a month since he retired from the army.
The retirement of Museveni from the army to focus on politics intensified speculation and fears from the opposition that he intended to prolong his grip on power beyond the constitutional limit of 2006.
Opponents have also charged that Museveni was behind efforts to lift a two-term limit on presidential tenures that would allow him run again for the presidency in 2006 when the country is expected to hold presidential and parliamentary elections.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040212172527.bil3j0gl.html   (272 words)

  
 The Roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museveni's record of killings is recorded in the districts of Luwero triangle where he supervised the murder of most UPC leaders, chiefs and supporters and hid them in mass graves.
We are now told that the real reason is because the police did not support Museveni in the Presidential elections and that he has now caught up with them and that by 2006 the police will be able to vote properly (see front page of New Vision of Monday, May 7, 2001).
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the International Community and all citizens of Uganda to clearly avert the catastrophy that is likely to engulf this country.
www.upcparty.net /ppc/museveni_record.htm   (1588 words)

  
 Museveni's Uganda
Through this self-initiated program, Museveni was able to make the necessary reforms, such as privatization of national enterprises and deregulation of particular industries, into Ugandan initiatives, rather than mandates laid out by the IMF and World Bank.
Museveni himself incorporated members of most opposing political parties in his first cabinet, including members of the Amin and Obote regimes.
Reflected in his desire to maintain a degree of socialism in his economy, Museveni sees capitalism, realism even, as a necessary means to achieve his ideal of a strong, independent and self-sustaining nation.
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 BBC NEWS | Africa | Profile: Uganda's Yoweri Museveni
Mr Museveni served as minister in the new government but then claimed that the 1980 elections were rigged.
Museveni become the darling of the West and was praised by Bill Clinton
In 1996, Mr Museveni faced a test of his popularity in presidential elections but won with a resounding 75% - partly by associating his opponents with the country's troubled past.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4124584.stm   (976 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | January 18, 2004 - Personal Web Page: Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni shared with us a ...
After a 20 year period of civil war in Uganda, marked by the regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote and the deaths of a million citizens, peace and prosperity have returned to the Pearl of Africa.
This paper is a study of the man who engineered this remarkable turnaround, President Yoweri Museveni, and examines his possible motives for the actions he has taken toward establishing an unprecedented 12 years of relative peace and equally unprecedented economic growth.
Museveni commonly addresses the Ugandan public in basic clothing.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2019321.html   (501 words)

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