When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni first emerged from the bush in January 1986, Uganda was exhausted by coups, economic collapse and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He ...

1970 - Returns to Uganda after college and works for Prime Minister Milton Obote. January 25, 1971 - Goes into exile in Tanzania when Obote is overthrown by Idi Amin. While in Tanzania, forms the ...

It is a claim former minister Mike Mukula made to American diplomats at the Kampala Mission, according to diplomatic cables ...

Ugandans under the age of 40 - and that is more than three-quarters of the population - have only known one president. Yoweri Museveni seized the top job in 1986 following an armed uprising and at the ...

Unemployment and poverty pose major challenges for President Museveni's seventh term, while his age and long rule prompt ...

Some say he used his tongue to get to power; perhaps the reason Milton Obote was one of the civilians to take power in a coup in Africa. While writing his obituary, the Guardian described Obote as one ...

Even in death, it appears, Apollo Milton Obote is still giving President Yoweri Museveni sleepless nights. After fighting Obote's second government for nearly five years between 1981 and 1985, a ...