Kizza Besigye
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| Born |
Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe 22 April 1956 Rukungiri, Uganda |
| Political party | Forum for Democratic Change |
| Spouse(s) | Winnie Byanyima |
| Children |
Adam Ampa Besigye Anselm Kizza Besigye |
| Residence | Kasangati,Wakiso, Uganda |
| Alma mater | Makerere University |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Adam Ampa Besigye
Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (born 22 April 1956), known as Kizza Besigye, and also nicknamed Colonel (in reference to his military rank before he left the Army), Daktari, Kifefe, KB, and Ssenyondo ("Big Hammer"), is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Force. He served as the president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party and was an unsuccessful candidate in Uganda's 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 presidential elections, losing all of them to the incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has been President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. The results of the 2006 elections were contested in court, where the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement. He allowed an early internal FDC election for a successor president, which took place on 24 November 2012. He decided that the successor president should be in place earlier than planned to allow the new president enough time to prepare the party for the next cycle of general elections.
Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe was born in Rwakabengo, Rukungiri Municipality, Rukungiri District, southwestern Uganda, on 22 April 1956. He attended Kinyasano Primary School and Mbarara Junior School. The second born in a family of 6, both his parents died before he finished primary school.His father was a police man. He went to Kinyasano Primary School,and Mbarara Junior School for his Primary school education. He later joined Kampala's Kitante High School for his Ordinary Levels and then Kigezi High School in Kabale District for his Advanced Level education.
Besigye enrolled at Makerere University in 1975, graduating with a degree in human medicine in 1980. While in the bush, he became Yoweri Museveni's personal physician. When the National Resistance Movement and Army (NRM/A) came to power in January 1986, he was appointed - at the age of 29 - Minister of State for Internal Affairs. He later held the positions of Minister of State in the President's office and National Political Commissar. In 1991, he became commanding officer of the mechanised regiment in Masaka, central Uganda, and in 1993 was appointed the army's chief of logistics and engineering.
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