Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

The man behind the 'movement' (no-party) system is President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in power since January 1986...

All three Presidents - Daniel arap Moi in Kenya Benjamin Mkapa in Tanzania Yoweri Museveni in Uganda - believe that economic convergence will boost investment and expand regional markets...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni whose government has been robustly criticised in a new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch told Africa Confidential that he supported scrutiny and would happily entertain monitors in Kampala but that some of his colleagues 'weren't quite ready...

In another negotiating gambit from Khartoum Lieutenant General Omer el Beshir asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban on 12-15 November...

Allegations of Ugandan complicity in supplying arms to the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels are always met with flat denials from President Yoweri Museveni's government...

Perhaps the most promising signs are the discreet contacts between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (the leading backer of the forces supporting Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent-Désiré Kabila) and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (the leading backer of the rebel forces)...

Among the militants involved in that operation were Uganda's current President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Vice-President Paul Kagamé who have since taken Nyerere's interventionist doctrine much further...

President Yoweri Museveni's government pioneered the ringfencing of social spending which directs savings from debt relief into a health and education fund...

Nonetheless he still has French President Jacques Chirac's backing though some in France's Foreign Ministry aren't so keen seeing him as a Francophone version of Uganda's Yoweri Museveni...

Helped by Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni the trio set the style for the summit: more energetic peacemaking in the Horn a tougher line against putschists and a stronger African voice in the UN and the World Trade Organisation...