Events in Uganda from 1985 to 1986. President Milton Obote's government is overthrown in a military coup. The new government and the National Resistance Army (NRA) the rebels meet for peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya. A peace agreement is signed but, due to continued atrocities committed by the military government troops, the peace agreement fails. The NRA takes Kampala and Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as the new President of Uganda. | History of Uganda

Uganda can't seem to crush guerrilla leader Museveni September 20, 1984 By William Pike Special to The Christian Science Monitor Mao Tse-tung said if you get an egg and put it in an incubator, after a while it will hatch a chick. But if you put a stone in an incubator, nothing will happen even if you leave it there for 100 years.'' Yoweri Museveni, leader of antigovernment guerrillas in Uganda, was speaking in a camp concealed beneath the thorn trees and scrub of savanna country 100 miles north