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...long, bloody campaign is the legacy of the assumption of power two decades ago by President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner who helped end the string of bloody reigns by northerners such as Milton Obote and Idi Amin. Former soldiers who returned north and felt out of favor soon formed a rebel groups with Christian roots but decidedly anti-Christian tactics...
...reached similar conclusions about their own countries. Which is why, in the mid-1990s, when a new generation of leaders emerged, Africans dared to hope that things could finally be changing. People like Issaias Afewerki in Eritrea, Laurent Kabila in Democratic Republic of Congo, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda and Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia promised a new style of leadership that focused on building economies and democratic nations instead of shoring up their power by force and ensuring that they and their friends got rich. When President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he touted this generation...
...million replacements are on their way, and also promises a new public education campaign stressing A, B and C. Some activists remain unconvinced. Were and her colleagues point out that abstinence billboards now dot Uganda's capital Kampala where condom posters used to be. Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni, a high-profile member of one of the country's fast-growing evangelical churches, has been spreading a message of abstinence and even advocates a "virginity census," though she's short on details about how to conduct it. President Yoweri Museveni last year attacked the widespread use of condoms...
...public march, a rarity in Kampala, critics of President Yoweri Museveni demanded that he promise to step down after his term ends, as required by the constitution. Backers of Museveni, in power since 1986, staged a rival rally...
President Yoweri Museveni and the NRA are currently engaged in a brutal conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army in north of Uganda...