Introduction of Uganda
Landlocked Uganda has transformed itself from a country with a troubled past to one of relative stability and prosperity.
Since its independence from Britain in 1962, the east African nation has endured a military coup, followed by a brutal military dictatorship which ended in 1979, disputed elections in 1980 and a five-year war that brought current President Yoweri Museveni to power in 1986.
The country has also had to contend with a brutal 20-year insurgency in the north, led by the Lord's Resistance Army.
While the country has won praise for its vigorous campaign against HIV/AIDS it has also attracted international attention for its hardening stance against the LGBT community.
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Republic of Uganda Capital: Kampala
Population 35.6 million
Area 241,038 sq. km (93,072 sq. miles)
Languages English (official), Swahili (official), Luganda, various Bantu and Nilotic languages
Major religionsChristianity, Islam
Life expectancy 54 years (men), 55 years (women)
Currency Ugandan shilling
UN, World Bank
LEADER
President: Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement have ruled Uganda without interruption since seizing power in 1986.
He won the 2011 presidential elections after a 2005 constitutional amendment lifted presidential term limits, and went on to win again in 2016. The opposition and independent observers have complained about the fairness and transparency of these and earlier polls.
Mr. Museveni has been credited with restoring relative stability and economic prosperity to Uganda following years of civil war and repression under former leaders Milton Obote and Idi Amin.
But he has also faced UN criticism for his role in the conflict in DR Congo. More recently, Uganda has been accused of aiding rebels there.
MEDIA
Uganda is a pioneer in the liberalization of the media in Africa.
It boasts a vibrant media sector, with nearly 200 private radio stations and dozens of television stations and print outlets, although circulation numbers have declined in recent years.
Private radio and TV mushroomed after the government loosened controls in 1993. Radio is the most popular medium. Public UBC covers the country in English and vernacular languages.
The central region around Kampala is home to dozens of private radio and TV stations. Rural radios serve ethnic groups and there is a cluster of religious stations. A digital TV switchover is planned.
BBC World Service is widely available on FM (101.3 in Kampala), and Radio France International broadcasts on FM in the capital.
Although the print media are led by the state-owned New Vision newspaper, it enjoys considerable independence and often publishes articles which criticise the government.
US-based Freedom House classifies Uganda's media as "partly free". In 2012, it reported biased election coverage by state-run media in 2011 and attacks on journalists reporting on protests.
There were 4.2 million internet users by December 2011 (Internetworldstats).
The press
§ New Vision - state-owned daily, as are its sister vernacular papers, Bukedde, Etop, Rupiny and Orumuri
§ The Monitor - privately-owned daily
§ The Observer - privately-owned weekly
TIMELINE
Some key dates in Uganda's history:
Centric leader Idi Amin expelled Uganda's Asians
1894 - Uganda declared a British protectorate.
1962 - Independence: Federalist constitution with Mutesa, King of Buganda as president and Milton Obote as prime minister.
1967-71 - Milton Obote seizes power in a coup and abolishes Uganda's tribal kingdoms.
1971-79 - Military leader Idi Amin seizes power - hundreds of thousands die during his rule.
1972 - Amin expels thousands of Ugandan Asians.
1978-79 - Uganda invades Tanzania but Tanzania retaliates, forcing Amin to flee the country.
1980-85 - Milton Obote returns to power but is deposed in a military coup.
1986 - Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni seizes power, heralding a period of stability and improved human rights.
1995 - New constitution legalises political parties but maintains ban on political activity.
2005 - Referendum endorses multi-party politics but lifts presidential term limits.
2008 - Crackdown on Lord's Resistance Army forces rebels to retreat from Uganda
British influence
1877 - Members of the British Missionary Society arrive in Buganda.
1879 - Members of the French Roman Catholic White Fathers arrive.
1890 - Britain and Germany sign treaty giving Britain rights to what was to become Uganda.
1892 - Imperial British East Africa Company agent Frederick Lugard extends the company's control to southern Uganda and helps the Protestant missionaries to prevail over their Catholic counterparts in Buganda.
1894 - Uganda becomes a British protectorate.
1900 - Britain signs agreement with Buganda giving it autonomy and turning it into a constitutional monarchy controlled mainly by Protestant chiefs.
1902 - The Eastern province of Uganda transferred to the Kenya.
1904 - Commercial cultivation of cotton begins.
1921 - Uganda given a legislative council, but its first African member not admitted till 1945.
Former leader Milton Obote
1958 - Uganda given internal self-government.
1962 - Uganda becomes independent with Milton Obote as prime minister and with Buganda enjoying considerable autonomy.
1963 - Uganda becomes a republic with Buganda's King Mutesa as president.
1966 - Milton Obote ends Buganda's autonomy and promotes himself to the presidency.
1967 - New constitution vests considerable power in the president.
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Multi-party politics
2005 July - Parliament approves a constitutional amendment which scraps presidential term limits.
Voters in a referendum overwhelmingly back a return to multi-party politics.
2005 October - International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for five LRA commanders, including leader Joseph Kony.
2005 November - Main opposition leader Kizza Besigye is imprisoned shortly after returning from exile after a trial in a military court on various charges including treason and illegal possession of firearms. Supporters say the trial was politically motivated, and take to the streets. Mr. Besigye is released on bail in
January 2006, just ahead of presidential elections.
2005 December - International Court in The Hague rules that Uganda must compensate DR Congo for rights abuses and the plundering of resources in the five years leading to 2003.
2006 February - President Museveni wins multi-party elections, taking 59% of the vote against the 37% share of his rival, Kizza Besigye. EU observers highlight intimidation of Mr. Besigye and official media bias as problems.
2006 August - The government and the LRA sign a truce aimed at ending their long-running conflict. Subsequent peace talks are marred by regular walk-outs.
2006 November - Government rejects a United Nations report accusing the army of using indiscriminate and excessive force in its campaign to disarm tribal warriors in the lawless northeastern region of Karamoja.
Somalia role
2007 March - Ugandan peacekeepers deploy in Somalia as part of an African Union mission to help stabilise the country.
The UN World Food Programme says it will have to halve food handouts to more than 1 million people displaced by war in the north.
2007 April - Protests over a rain forest explode into racial violence in Kampala, forcing police to protect Asian businesses and a Hindu temple. An Asian man and two other people are killed.
2007 July - Lord's Resistance Army says lack of funds for foreign travel and to reach commanders in remote hideouts will delay peace talks.
2007 August - Uganda and DRCongo agree to try defuse a border dispute
2008 November - The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, again fails to turn up for the signing of a peace agreement. Ugandan, South Sudanese and DR Congo armies launch offensive against LRA bases.
2009 January - Lord's Resistance Army appeals for ceasefire in face of continuing offensive by regional countries.
The UK oil explorer Heritage Oil says it has made a major oil find in Uganda.
2009 March - Ugandan army begins to withdraw from DR Congo, where it had pursued Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
2009 October - Somali Islamists threaten to target Uganda and Burundi after action by African peacekeepers in Somalia kills several civilians
Blasts
2010 July - Two bomb attacks on people watching World Cup final at a restaurant and a rugby club in Kampala kill at least 74 people. The Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab says it was behind the blasts.
2010 August - National Resistance Movement primary elections for parliamentary and local candidates suspended amid irregularities, violence.
2010 October - UN report into killing of Hutus in DR Congo between 1993 and 2003 says they may constitute "crimes of genocide". It implicates Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Zimbabwe and Angola.
2010 October - Constitutional Court quashes treason charges against opposition leader Kizza Besigye.
2011 February - Museveni wins his fourth presidential election. Challenger Kizza Besigye alleges vote-rigging and dismisses the result as a sham.
2011 April - Kizza Besigye arrested several times over ''walk-to-work'' protests against rising prices.
2011 July - US deploys special forces personnel to help Uganda combat LRA rebels.
2011 September - Court orders release of LRA commander Thomas Kwoyelo, saying he should be given the amnesty on offer from the government.
2012 May - Ugandan Army captures senior LRA commander Caesar Achellam in a clash in the Central African Republic, one of the nearby states in which the remaining band of LRA troops operates. Uganda says this is a major breakthrough, billing Achellam as a top LRA strategist.
Tens of thousands of refugees cross into Uganda, fleeing fighting in DR Congo.
INTRODUCTION
Dear,
Reader friends you all think why I give this information in this novel because we all want peace and harmony with at international level.
And need to makes good relation with other nation we all have a universal task to complete because need to one to one contact otherwise politician can’t do any think.
Some of the people are over intelligent, and saying Muslim can’t live in India.
Same problem with Pakistan some Muslim saying Hindu can’t live in Pakistan. And we laugh on both and think they are senseless because they are not diplomate.
Think why American, English, never announce this, that’s America is only for American and Brittan only for British. Because they are highly diplomate they know it’s a good thing that’s outer people live inside our country that increase their value and in bad time when christen target, in a Muslim country than he have an option to target Muslim in America and Britain and by only this announcement Muslim stop targeting christen in the Muslim country.
And many others benefits like enrichment in culture benefits of manpower, benefits of international skill and free of cost advertisement of their local brands, local culture and their local language.
But, the society who have not much developed diplomacy are talking like that, and give the slogan of ‘one nation one religion’
And the same problem with Uganda which is not much developed country and not have a good strategy to come under developed country in coming era.
And I have many friends from Uganda with my love that is my life so; I can’t say any things wrong and false about her country.
She is the first reader of my novel I not saying this only because I am an Indian.
I saying all this because I have love with Uganda and I like Uganda.
But the quire is that who give the slogan of ‘one country one religion’ and who have the self-profit when Indian and Pakistani people leave Uganda you can think two group of people who want to make their self-profit first is politician and other is a businessman
But who have the loss when Asian people leave the Uganda?
The local poor people because in any company or industries have employees from local area and the local people have a source of income from the company capital.
Think when the MNC company leave the India or Pakistan than what happens that’s will a golden time for local businessman because the people want to do work at any cost but that is the very bad situation for a nation when people start suffering food to mouth. It just crumps the national economy system.
But the problem of Uganda is different and somehow similar when Asian origin people migrated to other nation like a case:
Rajat Neogy (1938 – 3 December 1995),
A Ugandan of Indian Bengali ancestry was a writer, poet and publisher. In Kampala in 1961, at the age of 22 he founded Transition Magazine, which went on to become widely influential on the whole African continent. In the words of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "he (Neogy) believed in the multi-cultural and multifaceted character of ideas, and he wanted to provide a space where different ideas could meet, clash, and mutually illuminate. Transition became the intellectual forum of the New East Africa, and indeed Africa, the first publisher of some of the leading intellectuals in the continent, including Wole Soyinka, Ali Mazrui and Peter Nazareth.
Neogy was born and grew up in Kampala, Uganda. He studied at university in London and after returning to Uganda in 1961 founded the journal Transition, which soon came to be considered the leading journal of free expression in Africa. In 1968, after criticizing the Ugandan government in Transition, was charged with sedition and spent some months in detention before being acquitted and released. Leaving Uganda, he moved in 1970 to Ghana, where he resumed publishing Transition, with Wole Soyinka taking over as editor. Neogy then settled in the United States.
Need to Focus
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: This could be part of the NDA's Africa plan. The Ugandan president visited India as recently as 2011 and the vice-president in 2013. IK Gujral was the last PM to visit the nation in 1997. Rwandan Prime Minister Bernard Makuza participated in the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in January, 2011 but no Indian PM has visited Rwanda. Burundi president visited India in 2012 and its vice-president in 2013--Modi could be the first Indian PM to visit the landlocked nation.
But need to increase the relation with Uganda.
