Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
President

(pronounced "YOU-ree kah-GOO-ta muh-SEH-veh-nee")

"My mission is now almost accomplished, which is to orient my people toward modernization. We shall complete this process of democratization."

The Republic of Uganda, a landlocked equatorial East African country, is bordered by Zaire to the west, the Sudan to the north, Kenya to the east, and Rwanda, Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south. The capital is Kampala, located on the northern shore of Lake Victoria. Uganda occupies 235,885 sq km (94,354 sq mi), an area which is home to some 24.7 million people (2002 estimate), 99% of whom are African, and 1% of whom are of European, Asian, and Arab ancestry. The indigenous African population is quite diverse, with different groups dominating particular geographic regions of the country: Bantu groups, 65% of the African population, are located largely in the south; Nilotic groups comprise roughly 10% of...