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...then at politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married her third husband Dennis Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist, and in 1994, adopted a daughter Rita, now 16, Ugandan by birth. In the 1990s, after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and despite her own cancer, she began a relentless campaign to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's research. Devoted to her father, she lived, she said, for his good days. "There's nothing nicer than...
...Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won re-election with 69% of the vote against 28% for his main rival Kizza Besigye. Besigye, who once served as Museveni's doctor and was part of the "movement" that brought Museveni to power 15 years ago, accused his former ally's camp of ballot-rigging and intimidation. Besigye said he would petition the Supreme Court to overturn the result. Museveni said Besigye had also rigged some balloting. Opinion polls had predicted a much closer result in a campaign marked by increasing outbreaks of violence, including a bomb in the capital that killed a woman...
...basis of sexual orientation, most countries treat homosexuality as illegal and punish its practice with lengthy prison sentences. African leaders actively oppose gay rights and seem personally repulsed that some of their citizens may be gay. Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has called homosexuality a scourge, while Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last year ordered the arrest of a gay couple for "abominable acts." Perhaps the best known gay-hater is Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has in the past described gays as "beasts," "perverts" and "lower than dogs and pigs...
...leader as much as the spokesman for the Zimbabwean and Angolan armies currently pouring reinforcements into the war-ravaged country. Which is, of course, a double irony for the Congolese, since his father had arrived in the capital four years ago as the handpicked representative of the Rwandan and Ugandan forces that had put the dictator Mobutu to flight - the same armies that young Kabila's backers are now fighting...
...absence, since his tendency to find pretexts for breaking agreements or avoiding them altogether had begun to exasperate even some of his regional allies. Kabila's army was reportedly incensed by a speech he made over the weekend in which he ordered a final assault to eliminate the Ugandan- and Rwandan-backed rebel forces in the east. But a power vacuum in the capital could also accelerate the dismemberment of the vast country into fiefdoms controlled by neighboring states...