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Yoweri K. Museveni is president of the Republic of Uganda. In 1979, after several attempts, Museveni's guerrilla forces successfully wrested power from Idi Amin. Museveni then lost the 1980 elections, which he maintained had been a sham. In response to this loss, he formed the National Resistance Army, which he led in a successful military coup, resulting in his becoming president in 1986. In 1996 he won Uganda's first presidential election in sixteen years. Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere (1922-1999) was president of the Republic of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985. He was the founder and the first and only president of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU).As president of TANU, Nyerere campaigned throughout the country for independence from colonial rule. At the time of his death Nyerere served as honorary chairman of the Intergovernmental South Center, which promotes peace, unity, cooperation, and solidarity within Africa. He was also chairman of the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation. Elizabeth Kanyogonya is special assistant for literary affairs for the Republic of Uganda. ...

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