:Tuvalu Defense Forces
Branches:
Police Force
Manpower availability:
NA
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $NA, NA% of GNP
:Uganda Geography
Total area:
236,040 km2
Land area:
199,710 km2
Comparative area:
slightly smaller than Oregon
Land boundaries:
2,698 km total; Kenya 933 km, Rwanda 169 km, Sudan 435 km, Tanzania 396 km,
Zaire 765 km
Coastline:
none - landlocked
Maritime claims:
none - landlocked
Disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June
to August); semiarid in northeast
Terrain:
mostly plateau with rim of mountains
Natural resources:
copper, cobalt, limestone, salt
Land use:
arable land 23%; permanent crops 9%; meadows and pastures 25%; forest and
woodland 30%; other 13%; includes irrigated NEGL%
Environment:
straddles Equator; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion
Note:
landlocked
:Uganda People
Population:
19,386,104 (July 1992), growth rate 3.7% (1992)
Birth rate:
51 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
14 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
91 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
50 years male, 52 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
7.2 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Ugandan(s); adjective - Ugandan
Ethnic divisions:
African 99%, European, Asian, Arab 1%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, rest indigenous beliefs
Languages:
English (official); Luganda and Swahili widely used; other Bantu and Nilotic
languages
Literacy:
48% (male 62%, female 35%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
Labor force:
4,500,000 (est.); 50% of population of working age (1983)
Organized labor:
125,000 union members
:Uganda Government
Long-form name:
Republic of Uganda
Type:
republic
Capital:
Kampala
Administrative divisions:
10 provinces; Busoga, Central, Eastern, Karamoja, Nile, North Buganda,
Northern, South Buganda, Southern, Western
Independence:
9 October 1962 (from UK)
Constitution:
8 September 1967, in process of constitutional revision
Legal system:
government plans to restore system based on English common law and customary
law and reinstitute a normal judicial system; accepts compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction, with reservations
National holiday:
Independence Day, 9 October (1962)
Executive branch:
president, vice president, prime minister, three deputy prime ministers,
Cabinet
Legislative branch:
unicameral National Resistance Council
Judicial branch:
Court of Appeal, High Court
Leaders:
Chief of State:
President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 29 January 1986); Vice
President Samson Babi Mululu KISEKKA (since NA January 1991)
Head of Government:
Prime Minister George Cosmas ADYEBO (since NA January 1991)
Political parties and leaders:
only party - National Resistance Movement (NRM); note - the Uganda Patriotic
Movement (UPM), Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), Democratic Party (DP), and
Conservative Party (CP) are all proscribed from conducting public political
activities
Suffrage:
universal at age 18
Elections:
National Resistance Council:
last held 11-28 February 1989 (next to be held by January 1995); results -
NRM was the only party; seats - (278 total, 210 indirectly elected) 210
members elected without party affiliation
Other political or pressure groups:
Uganda People's Front (UPF), Uganda People's Christian Democratic Army
(UPCDA), Ruwenzori Movement
Member of:
ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, EADB, ECA, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, IDA,
IDB, IFAD, IFC, IGADD, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, LORCS, NAM,
OAU, OIC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Stephen Kapimpina KATENTA-APULI; 5909 16th Street NW, Washington,
DC 20011; telephone (202) 726-7100 through 7102
US:
Ambassador Johnnie CARSON; Embassy at Parliament Avenue, Kampala (mailing
address is P. O. Box 7007, Kampala); telephone [256] (41) 259792, 259793,
259795
:Uganda Government
Flag:
six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and
red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and depicts a red-crested
crane (the national symbol) facing the staff side