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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at Ugandans that are focused on promoting sectarianism, saying some have tried to cast the NRM as a system monopolized by people from western Uganda. “Here in the Presidency, I am quite comfortable without many Banyankore, or, indeed, …

By Melina Raquel Platas When the NRA marched into Kampala in January of 1986, the new President, Yoweri Museveni, faced a daunting challenge: How to lead a country that had been in political turmoil for 15 years. Between independence in 1962 and the arrival of Museveni in 1986, executive power …