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Uganda - Head of Government

HE Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President

HE Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was re-elected as President of the Republic of Uganda in February 2006. Mr Museveni first became President in January 1986 and was the first directly elected President of Uganda in the 1996 election. He was re-elected in 2001.

 

Mr Museveni had served briefly as Minister of Defence, Minister of Regional Co-operation and Vice-Chair of the Military Commission in previous administrations.

 

He was one of the key members of the National Resistance Movement and the National Resistance Army in the 1980s. Mr Museveni was also instrumental in forming the Front for National Salvation, one of the core Ugandan guerrilla groups involved in a liberation struggle in the 1970s.

 

Mr Museveni has a Bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.

 

He was born in 1944.