Analysis - President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni - Africa's fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 - has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two tyrannies: in 1979 his militia helped to oust Idi Amin's famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s his army won a guerrilla campaign against the brutal government of Milton Obote. When his men marched into Kampala in 1986, Museveni became the first leader of a popular insurrection to oust a sitting African government.
and for their wilful disobedience towards traditional authorities.
Within a few weeks Fronasa's hideout in eastern Uganda had been raided by Amin's soldiers. For years thereafter Museveni was to live in Tanzania, working as a teacher in a government school while financing Fronasa's activities from his modest salary. In December 1980 Ugandans went to the polls to vote in a new government. It was the first election in Uganda since independence in 1962. Museveni stood for the presidency as the leader of a new party, called the Uganda People's Movement. But it was Milton Obote - who had been ousted by General Amin in 1971 - who won the election and returned to the presidency.launched a struggle
It was revolutionaries' role, in his view, to"revive the moral standards that had once characterised Uganda". Museveni promised to create a"Directorate of Moral Guidance" that would"promote a general revival of values in society". He insisted on a careful discipline among his cadres: his soldiers were to pay for food they received from peasant farmers; and soldiers' rectitude about alcohol and other indulgences was widely admired.
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