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Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni (Born 15 September: Early Life and Education

Yoweri Museveni has been the president of Uganda since 1986. He came to power after involvement in rebellions that overthrew previous leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Initially viewed positively in the West as part of a new generation of African leaders, Museveni's presidency has faced criticism for conflicts in neighboring countries and the suppression of political opposition. He won reelection for a sixth term in 2021 despite constitutional amendments removing term and age limits for the presidency.

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Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni (Born 15 September: Early Life and Education

Yoweri Museveni has been the president of Uganda since 1986. He came to power after involvement in rebellions that overthrew previous leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Initially viewed positively in the West as part of a new generation of African leaders, Museveni's presidency has faced criticism for conflicts in neighboring countries and the suppression of political opposition. He won reelection for a sixth term in 2021 despite constitutional amendments removing term and age limits for the presidency.

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Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni 

(born 15 September
1944) is a Ugandan politician who has served as President of
Uganda since 1986. Museveni was involved in rebellions that
toppled Ugandan leaders Idi Amin (1971–79) and Milton
Obote (1980–85) before he captured power in the 1980s.
In the mid- to late 1990s, Museveni was celebrated by
the West as part of a new generation of African leaders. During
Museveni's presidency, Uganda has experienced relative peace
and significant success in battling HIV/AIDS.
Museveni's presidency has been marred by involvement in
the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
other Great Lakes region conflicts; the rebellion in Northern
Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army, which caused a
humanitarian emergency; and the suppression of political
opposition and constitutional amendments scrapping presidential
term limits (2005) and the presidential age limit (2017). On 16
January 2021, the electoral commission of Uganda announced
that Museveni won reelection for a sixth term with 58.6% of the
vote.
Early life and education[edit]
Museveni was born on 15 September 1944 in Rukungiri, to
parents Mzee Amos Kaguta (1916–2013), a cattle herder, and
Esteri Kokundeka Nganzi (1918–2001), a housewife, both of
whom were illiterate. He is of the Bahororo ethnicity.[2] Museveni
gets his middle name from his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta. Kaguta
is also the father of Museveni's brother Caleb Akandwanaho,
popularly known in Uganda as Salim Saleh,[3] and sister Violet
Kajubiri.[4]
His family migrated to Ntungamo, Uganda Protectorate. Museveni
attended Kyamate Elementary School, Mbarara High School,
and Ntare School. In 1967, he went to the University of Dar es
Salaam in Tanzania. There, he studied economics and political
science and became a Marxist, involving himself in radical pan-
African politics. While at university, he formed the University
Students' African Revolutionary Front activist group and led a
student delegation to FRELIMO territory in
Portuguese Mozambique, where he received guerrilla training.
Studying under the leftist Walter Rodney, among others,
Museveni wrote a university thesis on the applicability of Frantz
Fanon's ideas on revolutionary violence to post-colonial Africa.

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