The World - News from Jan. 30, 1986
Ugandan rebel commander Yoweri Museveni was sworn in as the nation’s president, four days after his National Resistance Army stormed Kampala and brought down the six-month-old military government. Museveni, a former defense minister, is Uganda’s seventh head of state since the country of 14 million gained independence from Britain in 1962. In a nearly hourlong inaugural speech, Museveni said his government will be an interim one, but did not give a date for elections.
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