Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni, of the ruling National Resistance Movement party won the Presidential election according to the election results declared on 20 February 2011. He defeated the opposition candidate Kizza Besigya. Yoweri Musevni won 68 percent of the votes while Kizza Besigya could manage only 26 percent of the votes. The election in Uganda was participated by 59 percent of voters. The opposition parties along with the foreign election observers alleged that the voting process was rigged in favour of Yoweri Museveni.
Uganda is an oil-rich country with an estimated 2.5 billion barrels of oil reserves. Uganda is East Africa’s third-biggest economy after Kenya and Tanzania.
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