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Dr. Kizza Besigye is a former colonel in the Ugandan army and challenger in Uganda's 2001 presidential elections.
Besigye was previously a political ally of President Yoweri Museveni, helping to found the Uganda Patriotic Movement, which did poorly in |
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Saida Oumoul Khairy Niass
Daughter of Cheikh Ibrahim Niass (19xx-1975) of Senegal
Wife of the late Cheikh Aboubacar Houssoumi of Kiota,l Niger - married him based on poetry- her second husband
Her father was Cheikh Ibrahim Niass who was an extremely |
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Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Mr. Annan's priorities as Secretary-General have been to revitalize the United Nations through a comprehensive programme of reform; to strengthen the Organization's traditional |
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Amina Lawal
n March 2002, an Islamic Sharia court in the northern state of Katsina sentenced Amina Lawal to death by stoning for adultery or zina. The crime being, conceiving a child out of wedlock. The issue exposed civil and religious tensions between |
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Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1999
He left the country in 1962 under orders from the ANC. From Tanzania he moved to Britain where he completed a Masters degree in economics at Sussex University in 196 |
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Robert and Grace Mugabe
By the time of the christening of their first child, this high profile political couple had already become controversial at home due to the wife's lavish spending
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Janet Museveni
Mama Janet Museveni,
First Lady of the Republic of Uganda
Ugandan First Lady Honored for Her Work in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
and Her Tireless work on Behalf of Ugandan Children Orphaned by AIDS
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Milton Obote
Milton Obote was born on December 8, 1924 in the Lango District in Northern Uganda. He was Uganda's second post-colonial President. He served two terms, one from 1966-1971, and the other from 1980-1985. He founded the Ugandan National Congre |
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Idi Amin
Idi Amin was born in the early 1920s in northwest Uganda. He entered the military in 1946, swiftly rising in the ranks. After assisting Milton Obote (then leader of Uganda) against the king of Buganda, Amin is appointed chief of the army a |
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Julius Nyerere
Known Mwalimu (The Teacher), Africa's philosopher king. He fostered nation-building by promoting Swahili as his country's national language. Became Tanzania’s President in 1962 after His country was withdrawn from British rule without viol |
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
This economist and former Finance Minister walked away from high level positions at the UN, and returned to politics in her war-torn country. |
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Felix Houphouet-Boigny
was president of Cote d'Ivoire from 1960-1993. Up until the 1990s his ideologically moderate platform coupled with powerful Western allies(ex. France) allowed the country to prosper economically and made it the most stable country |
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