Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8%

Religions: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous
beliefs 18%

Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools,
used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts),
Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages,
preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be
taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages,
Swahili, Arabic

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total
population: 62.7% male: 74% female: 54% (2000 est.)

Government Uganda

Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Uganda conventional
short form: Uganda

Government type: republic

Capital: Kampala

Administrative divisions: 45 districts; Adjumani, Apac, Arua, Bugiri,
Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Busia, Gulu, Hoima, Iganga, Jinja, Kabale, Kabarole,
Kalangala, Kampala, Kamuli, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Katakwi, Kibale, Kiboga,
Kisoro, Kitgum, Kotido, Kumi, Lira, Luwero, Masaka, Masindi, Mbale,
Mbarara, Moroto, Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nakasongola, Nebbi,
Ntungamo, Pallisa, Rakai, Rukungiri, Sembabule, Soroti, Tororo note:
there may be eleven more districts: Kaberamaido, Kamwenge, Kanungu,
Kayunga, Kyenjojo, Mayngc, Nakapiripiti, Pader, Sironko, Wakiso, Yumbe

Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK)

National holiday: Independence Day, 9 October (1962)

Constitution: 8 October 1995; adopted by the interim, 284-member
Constituent Assembly, charged with debating the draft constitution that
had been proposed in May 1993; the Constituent Assembly was dissolved
upon the promulgation of the constitution in October 1995

Legal system: in 1995, the government restored the legal system to one
based on English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction, with reservations

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch: chief of state: President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta
MUSEVENI (since seizing power 29 January 1986); note - the president
is both chief of state and head of government head of government:
President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since seizing power 29
January 1986); Prime Minister Apollo NSIBAMBI (since 5 April 1999);
note - the president is both chief of state and head of government;
the prime minister assists the president in the supervision of the
cabinet cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president from among elected
legisla