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 * 1)  Yoweri (Kaguta) Museveni is the leader of Uganda since January 26, 1986.
 * 2) Uganda is quite a big country actually, considering it is smaller than Oregon. Its population is 34,612,250 people. Uganda lies in western Africa and is pretty tropical most of the time. It has generally about two dry seasons per year and is “semiarid” in the northeast. Though this country is surrounded by land it has plenty of lakes and rivers and is quite fertile because of this. Its main natural resources are copper, hydropower, gold, arable land, cobalt, limestone, and salt. The ethnic groups consist of Baganda, Banyakole, Basoga, Bakita, Iteso, Langi, Acholi, Bagisu, Lugbara, Bunyoro, and other. The religious groups consist of Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, other, and none. The national language of Uganda is English. 66.8% of the Ugandan population can read and write (everyone over 15). Although Uganda has an incredible amount of natural resources, and a lot of minerals, over 80% of employed workers are in agriculture. Ever since the current president took power work on the economy has really been worked on to stabilize and even rehabilitate it. Uganda has received a good bit of help from national and international organizations and from themselves by just straightening things out that were in place before but needed fixing. Due to a decrease in Uganda’s exports most of the funding for the government is now, and will from now on, mostly be coming from higher and higher taxes. Sudan’s stability also affects Uganda though because it is the number one export partner of Uganda and in return Sudanese refugees flee to Uganda.
 * 3) Yoweri Museveni was born in Ankole, which is in western Uganda. Not much is known about his personal life, although it’s been said his name originated from the Abasuveni. These were servicemen to Uganda who were in the Seventh Regiment of the King’s African rifles. He stumbled across his calling for politics when he was “still a secondary school student” and later went on to study Economics and Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam. In the time he was there he befriended many revolutionary groups from around the region. After his schooling his real career in politics began in the 70’s and he helped put the Front for National Salvation rebel group together that took power away from Idi Amin. Then in 1980 he became the new minister for the government. Once he took power in 1986 (as part of the NRA) he introduced a system by which competition for political office(s) were on “individual merit.” He believed that the separation of the country into political parties split countries like Uganda into religious and ethnic groups. His coming to power brought the Ugandan economy up substantially, less poverty, increased school enrolment, and lower HIV levels.
 * 4) As far as I have found not many, if any at all, support Uganda mainly because of its leader. Ugandans were happy to vote him into power at first and continue to today. He’s been in power for 25 years now but people are starting to turn against him. It has a long-lasting partnership with Sudan for exports. Sudan is Uganda’s number one buyer of exports actually. It also seems like the U.S.A. is a supporter of Uganda as well, considering the U.S. wanted President Yoweri Museveni to sign a letter saying that he supports the negotiations in international trade that was taking place. Most Ugandans believe that the only reason Yoweri Museveni has held power this long is because of a few key supporters and also because it was rigged. Ugandan support has switched to Museveni’s opponent, Kizza Besigye. Another reason supporters are scared of Museveni is because he is now turning into a hard man bent on violence to control the people. This almost sounds like a dictatorship, one of the things he wrote about that he didn’t want Africa to become and to fight against. Something else that is scary to think about is the fact that he tried to lift the rule from their constitution about not being able to rule “indefinitely.” It was originally supposed to only be two terms, even though he’s already blown past that. That isn’t right though, considering they are a democracy, not a monarchy.
 * 5) Overall Uganda has ranked pretty average on the continental scale for Africa on the four factors of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. It got 24th out of 53 countries, or a score of 51 on a percentile rating out of 100, 100 being the best. Its safety and rule of law right now are its best features. Accountability and corruption and personal safety are the lowest points of this factor because of the accusations of rigging elections and because recently violent protests have broken out and some protestors are usually killed and/or injured. However, its rule of law and national security are higher because of what Yoweri Museveni first introduced when he became president. The government and economy have been getting better ever since, with outside help of course. The participation and human rights factor is also very average. In the participation and human rights factor Uganda has a very gender-equal society, the gender being its best point of this factor. Its participation and rights are a little bit below average but that is because one male ruler has been in power for more than 20 years now. That usually takes a few rights and participation rights away from the people. In the sustainable economic opportunity factor everything is above average, except for the infrastructure, because of the area they live in and who runs what smaller things under the president. The infrastructure is actually really bad though because it’s a very rural place; it’s mostly farms and cattle, and other farm animals. There isn’t much of a use for paved, official roads and highways. This is also somewhat surprising though because the literacy rate is actually quite high for a third world country- 66.8%. In the human development factor health and welfare is a little bit above average because it has constantly been improving access to sanitation facilities. Its education is just below average though because, though they school on average for about 11 years, it must not be an excellent education due to the fact that only 3.2% of Uganda’s GDP goes toward education and schooling.

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medical doctor says he is. 'If Museveni's regime has profoundly transformed the economy and political discourse in the country, it has done so in a

deeply Machiavellian fashion,' says the new book. Bamuturaki Musinguzi has been reading it, and sent us this report from Kampala." //New African// June 2011: 94+. //Infotrac//      //Newsstand//. Web. 29 Sep. 2011.   //﻿//  "Ugandans in Bed With US, Betray Third World." //Africa News Service// 16 Sept. 2003: 1008259u8351. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 29 Sep. 2011.   //﻿//  //﻿//