Museveni as President of Republic of Uganda.Your Information about Museveni as the President of Uganda. This guy came from a humble beginning, fighting the bush war for 5 years and has proved to be the best president in Africa. On this page we will guide you about all you need to know about the history of our president in Africa .
Here are some information about Kaguta Yoweri in office starting from 26th January 1986 up to today when we are writing this site.This page shows how Museveni emerged to overthrow the already disgruntled government of Dictators who had ruled Uganda to ashes.
A split within the army itself—in particular, between its Acholi and Lango members—led to Obote,s overthrow and exile in 1985 and to the seizure of power by an Acholi general, Tito Okello. This, however, could not prevent a victory for his force of southern fighters, who now called themselves the National Resistance Army (NRA), and Museveni became president on January 29, 1986.
While a new constitution was being drafted, an indirectly elected National Resistance Council, dominated by the National Resistance acted as the national legislature. Faced with the same problems that had confronted the UNLF in 1979 and Obote in 1980, He announced a policy of moral as well as economic reconstruction, although it was not easy to enforce. 
Sporadic military resistance to the new government continued, particularly in the north and east. Arms were plentiful, and dissatisfied persons were willing to use them to promote their ends. The NRA, despite the president’s injunctions, sometimes proved as heavy-handed in dealing with opponents as Obote’s forces had been. Security did improve, however, at least in most of central, southern, and western Uganda, and observers claimed that human rights were more widely protected. A constitutional amendment in 1993 led to the restoration of the monarchies, and the Baganda, Batooro, Bunyoro, and Basoga crowned their traditional rulers. The new constitution was promulgated in 1995, and presidential elections were held in May 1996; Museveni easily won the majority of votes. He was reelected in 2001 and 2006, although the 2006 contest was clouded by allegations that Kizza Besigye, the leader of the opposition group (F.D.C) Forum for Democratic Change, was imprisoned in the months leading up to the presidential election to stop him from participating.
Besigye was ultimately released in January 2006 and able to stand for election in February; although he lost, he garnered almost two-fifths of the vote and some say that in fact he won but was cheated. Meanwhile, in the late 1990s Uganda faced international criticism over its involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s civil war; after many attempts at resolution, the last of the Ugandan troops withdrew from Congo in 2003. In December 2005 the International Court of Justice determined that Uganda was guilty of unlawful military intervention in Congo and that Uganda’s military violated international human rights law and exploited Congo’s natural resources; the court ruled that Uganda owed reparations to the country. During the 1990s and continuing into the 2000s, Uganda was faced with an increase in rebel activity, particularly from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Established in the late 1980s, the LRA abducted tens of thousands of children to serve as slaves or soldiers in its fight against Museveni’s government.
After years of refusal, the LRA agreed to meet with government officials for peace talks in late December 2004. However, the talks broke down in early 2005, and the LRA resumed their brutal attacks on civilians. Peace talks resumed in July 2006, and although a cease-fire agreement was reached in late August, talks again broke down, and negotiations to end the decades-old conflict continued intermittently. In late 2007 there was some concern that the quest for peace might be hindered by a rift between Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, and some of the group’s high-ranking leadership; another concern was that some of the northern communities that had been terrorized by the LRA would refuse to accept any type of reconciliation agreement with the group. Click here for more information about LRA
Although the country’s continued economic growth was praised by the West, inflation and unemployment continued to be problems, especially given Uganda’s dependence on fluctuating markets for its agricultural produce. In an effort to enhance economic activity in the region, Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya launched the East African Community Customs Union on January 1, 2005. In short there is much improvement in the standards of living as far as security of Ugandans is concerned though much is needed to improve the peoples economy.
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