Uganda High Commission

The incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni beat back a stiff challenge from Dr. Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to comfortably win Uganda's first multiparty presidential election since 1980. The President romped to victory for a third elective term with 59 percent of the votes. His closest rival Dr. Kizza Besigye got 37 percent. The results granted the President another five years in power.

The voter turn out was 68.64 percent. The President won 4,078,911 (59%) votes to Dr. Besigye's 2,570,603 (37%) votes. Mr. John 'Ssebaana Kizito got 108,951 (1.58%) votes, Dr. Abed Bwanika got 65,345 (0.95%) while Mrs Miria Obote got 56,674 (0.82%) votes.

President Museveni run a campaign focused on the NRM government's achievements in the last 20 years, including removal of dictatorship, giving. The Population Secretariat (POPSEC), organized a breakfast meeting for public bodies and civil society organizations to discuss involvement of youth in HIV / AIDs programmes in Uganda. The new Africa-wide policy would support the most affected yet marginalized groups especially the youth. The strategy would enable them increase funding as well as people the chance to vote, establishment of peace and stability, rule of law, economic stability and rebuilding the infrastructure destroyed in the 1970s and early 1980s. He also focused on the specific achievements such as the introduction of Universal Primary Education, Child Immunization, reducing poverty levels from 56 percent to 38 percent, building health centres, and fighting the HIV / AIDs epidemic.

The President campaigned further for his re-election on the need to consolidate those achievements, while working towards the realization of an East African Federation, value addition to Uganda's exports, accessing markets especially in the West, introducing free Universal Secondary Education, and economic transformation from a peasant society to an industrial one. He condensed his message into three slogans: "education for all, prosperity