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Musazi's Uganda National Congress replaced the farmers union in 1952 when it was set up with Abu Mayanja as its first Secretary General, but because the congress remained a casual discussion group more than an organized political party, it stagnated and came to an end just two years after its inception.
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Uganda and National
* 1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
Much of this area lies within the boundaries of national parks such as Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwenzori National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, and Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.
* 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
* National Heroes ' Day ( Uganda )
* January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a successful 5-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed.
Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, have been observed to consume soil rich in kaolinite clay shortly before or after consuming plants including Trichilia rubescens, which possesses antimalarial properties in the laboratory.
Other features of the city include the Uganda Museum, Ugandan National Theatre, Nakasero Market and St. Balikuddembe Market ( formerly Owino Market ).
After Amin ' removal, the Uganda National Liberation Front formed an interim government with Yusuf Lule as president and Jeremiah Lucas Opira as the Secretary General of the UNLF.
The Uganda People ’ s Defence Force ( UPDF ), previously the National Resistance Army, is the armed forces of Uganda.
The Uganda National Liberation Front ruled Uganda from the overthrow of Amin in April 1979 until the disputed national elections in December 1980.
During that period the Front's military wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army ( UNLA ) acted as Uganda's national armed forces.
The National Resistance Army was renamed the Uganda People's Defence Force following the enactment of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda.
* Uganda National Liberation Front ( UNLF )
* 1992-World Gospel Mission ( National Holiness Missionary Society ) starts work in Uganda
* National Insurance Corporation, Uganda
Upon returning to Uganda in 1956, he joined the political party Uganda National Congress ( UNC ), and was elected to the colonial Legislative Council in 1957.
It has been estimated that approximately 100, 000 people died as a result of fighting between Obote's Uganda National Liberation Army ( UNLA ) and the guerrillas.
* National Enterprise Corporation, a state corporation of Uganda
Uganda and Congress
** ( Uganda People's Congress ) 1969-1971
; 1903: Uganda Proposal for settlement in East Africa splits the 6th Zionist Congress.
In 1959, the UNC split into two factions, with one faction under the leadership of Obote merging with Uganda People's Union to form the Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ).
The elections in 1980 were won by Obote's Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ) party.
* Uganda People's Congress
*" A Country Study: Uganda ", Library of Congress
In 1960 a political organizer from Lango, Milton Obote, seized the initiative and formed a new party, the Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ), as a coalition of all those outside the Roman Catholic-dominated DP who opposed Buganda hegemony.
One exception was the long-lived Uganda National Congress, based on the Congress Party of India.
Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ) was supported mainly by groups from the north and western parts.
Uganda People's Congress and Kabaka Yekka united to form the government, excluding the DP.
Upon independence Milton Obote, the leader of Uganda People's Congress, became the nation's first Prime Minister.
Uganda People's Congress had several obstacles to forming a government.
Despite its outward display of a military chain of command, Amin's government was arguably more consumed with rivalries, regional divisions, and ethnic politics than the Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ) coalition that it had replaced.
In 1980, Yoweri Museveni stood against Milton Obote's Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ) and the Democratic Party ( Uganda ) in the national elections.
In the elections of 2006, the NRM proved its political credentials by out flanking the traditional parties like the Uganda People ’ s Congress and Democratic Party reminding people –- particularly those in the south — that the brutal northern dominated armies of Amin and Obote could return if the south showed any disunity.
Museveni, then leader of the Uganda Patriotic Movement party, alleged electoral fraud and declared an armed rebellion, following the victory of Uganda Peoples Congress in the bitterly disputed 1980 general elections.
Following a widely disputed victory for the Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ) led by former president Milton Obote, many of the UNLF founding members would go on to fight against the now UPC-controlled UNLA.
In 1905 he joined the Mizrachi movement, representing it at the Seventh Zionist Congress, voting against the " Uganda Proposal " to create a " temporary " Jewish " homeland " in Uganda in East Africa, as suggested by Great Britain.
Uganda and replaced
The chief justice of Uganda, to whom complaints of election irregularities would have to be made, was replaced with a UPC member.
He was replaced as president by Pierre Buyoya, and went into exile in Uganda and later went to Libya.
He returned to Uganda 1988, following the removal of the Obote II regime and the military junta that briefly replaced Obote II.
Obote as leader of the UPC was closely aligned to the Military Junta that had replaced Idi Amin and rather than strengthen the support of the party in the South of Uganda took up a more military approach.
The following year, 1967, the nation's constitution was abrogated and replaced with a new one which abolished the country's ancient monarchies -- the kingdom's of Buganda, Bunyoro, Ankole, Toro, and the Principality of Busoga, turning Uganda into a republic and making Milton Obote president with unlimited executive powers.
While the boda-boda bicycle is still spreading to other areas, in its area of origin, especially in cities in Kenya and Uganda, the bicycles are more and more replaced by motorbikes.
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