Uganda - Head of Government

HE Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was re-elected as President of Uganda in February 2006. He 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.

He is Chair of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), which he co-founded in 1981.

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 and several others formed the NRM and the National Resistance Army (NRA) in the early 1980s. The NRA has evolved into the Uganda People’s Defence Forces today. 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 in Ntungamo, Uganda.