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{{Short description|Politician and First Lady of Uganda}}
[[Image:JanetMuseveni.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Janet Museveni speaking in [[Kampala]] in April 2004.]]
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'''Janet Museveni''' (''née'' Keinembabazi, born August 15, 1949, in Ruhama, Ntungamo, Uganda); [[First Lady]] of [[Uganda]] since May 1986.
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Janet Museveni
| image name =
| imagesize =
| office = [[First Lady|First Lady of Uganda]]
| term_label = Assumed role
| term_start = 29 January 1986
| term_end =
| president = [[Yoweri Museveni]]
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office1 = [[Ministry of Education and Sports (Uganda)|Minister of Education and Sports]]
| term_start1 = 6 June 2016
| term_end1 =
| president1 = Yoweri Museveni
| predecessor1 = [[Jessica Alupo]]
| successor1 =
| office2 = [[Ministry for Karamoja Affairs (Uganda)|Minister for Karamoja Affairs]]
| term_start2 = 27 May 2011
| term_end2 = 6 June 2016
| president2 = Yoweri Museveni
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 = [[John Byabagambi]]
| birth_name = Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|06|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kajara County, [[Ntungamo District]], [[Protectorate of Uganda]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Yoweri Museveni]]|1973}}
| children = [[Muhoozi Kainerugaba]]<br/>Natasha Karugire<br/>Patience Rwabwogo<br/>Diana Kamuntu
| image = Museveni Janet Kataaha.jpg
| caption = Janet Museveni (2024)
}}


'''Janet Kainembabazi Museveni''' ({{nee|'''Kataaha'''}}; born 24 June 1948) is a [[Uganda|Ugandan]] politician who has been the [[First Lady]] of [[Uganda]] since 1986. She is married to [[Uganda|Ugandan]] President [[Yoweri Museveni]], with whom she has four children. She has been [[Education|Cabinet Minister of Education and Sports]] since 6 June 2016, although her own education record is questioned,she later graduated at Mukono university also known at UCU in Masters Art in organisational Leadership and Management on The 30 October 2015 .<ref>{{cite web|date=6 June 2016|newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]]|url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%2527s+cabinet.pdf|title=Museveni's new cabinet list At 6 June 2016|access-date=13 June 2016|author=Uganda State House|location=Kampala|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007121926/http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%27s+cabinet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Observer|work=Janets degree is questioned|url=https://www.observer.ug/news/headlines/3693-janets-degree-is-questioned|access-date=2021-04-13|archive-date=2022-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017100355/https://www.observer.ug/news/headlines/3693-janets-degree-is-questioned|url-status=dead}}</ref> She previously served as [[Karamoja sub-region|Minister for Karamoja Affairs]] in the [[Cabinet of Uganda|Ugandan Cabinet]] from 27 May 2011 until 6 June 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Full List of Ugandan Ministers Appointed by President Museveni|url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1170806/-/c0y8sbz/-/index.html |access-date=13 June 2016|date=28 May 2011 |
Janet Keinembabazi Kataha Museveni was born to Mr and Mrs Edward Kataha in western Uganda and attended Bweranyagye Girls' Secondary School.
newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] |location=Kampala }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/755941|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211084313/http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/755941|url-status=dead|title=Museveni Names New Cabinet|archivedate=11 December 2014}}</ref> She also served as the elected [[Parliament of Uganda|Member of Parliament]] representing Ruhaama County in [[Ntungamo District]], between 2011 and 2016. She published her autobiography, ''My Life's Journey'', in 2011.<ref name=mon---itor>{{cite web|title=The world through the Musevenis' eyes|url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1226382/-/rn0jyf/-/index.html|access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=ne-wvisi-on>{{cite web|title=From Ntungamo to State House: The Museveni love story|url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/26/759254|access-date=25 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225182721/http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/26/759254|archive-date=25 February 2015}}</ref>
==Early life and marriage==
Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha was born in Kajarra County, [[Ntungamo District]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography|url=https://janetmuseveni.org/biography/|website=janetmusevni.org|language=en|access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref> to Mr. Edward Birori and Mrs. Mutesi. She attended Kyamate Primary School, and [[Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School]] in Uganda. She was awarded a Master of Arts in Organisational Leadership and Management on 30 October 2015 from [[Uganda Christian University]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://campusbee.ug/news/top-10-prominent-ucu-alumnus/ | title=Top prominent UCU alumni......number five will shock you! | date=11 May 2016 }}</ref>


Janet Museveni went into exile in 1971 because they were plundering Uganda, when [[Idi Amin]] toppled the [[Milton Obote]] regime in a military coup. She married Yoweri Museveni in August 1973.<ref name="Butagira2010">{{cite news
After high school, she lived with a cousin, John W. Kazzora, who financed her overseas studies. She attended a secretarial course in Wales and on returning to Uganda got a job as a ground hostess with the then East African Airways.
|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201005240504.html
|title=Janet Museveni Opens Up On Love, Family And Politics
|last=Butagira
|first=Tabu
|date=22 May 2010
|work=[[AllAfrica.com]]
|publisher=The Monitor
|access-date=20 October 2010
|quote=President Museveni writes in his autobiography: ''... Janet and I were married in August 1973 while working for the [[East African Community]] and their first child, [[Muhoozi Kainerugaba]], was born on April 24, 1974...''}}</ref> When Idi Amin's regime fell from power in April 1979, she moved back to Uganda from [[Tanzania]] where she had been living in exile with her husband.


In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]] against the government of President Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], where they lived with family friends until 1983. In 1983, they moved to [[Gothenburg]],[[Sweden]], and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni's [[National Resistance Army]] had seized power in [[Kampala]].
She had originally applied to be an air stewardess but was turned down because of her epileptic condition.


==Career==
In 1971, she met and fell in love with a young man named William Mwesigwa. When Mwesigwa fled to exile in Tanzania and got involved in guerrilla war against the new government of President Idi Amin, Janet Kataha joined him there.
Janet Museveni founded the Uganda Women's Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO), a private relief agency in late 1986, which she said was shaped by her experience as a refugee. She became involved with the HIV/AIDS campaigns in Uganda in the 1990s, forging ties with radical pastor [[Martin Ssempa]] for [[abstinence-only sex education in Uganda]].<ref>''The Economist'', 3 July 2010, page 45.</ref>
In November 2005, she announced that she would seek the parliamentary seat of Ruhaama county in the [[2006 Ugandan general election|February 2006 general election]]s. She contested the seat against the candidate for the [[Forum for Democratic Change]], Augustine Ruzindana, and won overwhelmingly. She was re-elected in March 2011 to another five-year term.


On 16 February 2009, Janet Museveni was appointed [[Karamoja|State Minister for Karamoja Affairs]], by her husband, President Yoweri Museveni.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.africanews.com/site/Uganda_First_lady_appointed_minister/list_messages/23249|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222031330/http://www.africanews.com/site/Uganda_First_lady_appointed_minister/list_messages/23249|url-status=dead|title=Janet Museveni Appointed Minister of State|archivedate=22 February 2009}}</ref>
After Mwesigwa's death in 1972, Kataha drew romantically close to a young guerrilla leader and comrade of the late Mwesigwa, Yoweri Museveni.


On 27 May 2011, she was elevated to [[Karamoja|Minister for Karamoja Affairs]], complete with a State Minister for Karamoja Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.monitor.co.ughttps//www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/full-of-list-of-ugandan-ministers-appointed-by-president-museveni--1492836|title=Full of List of Ugandan Ministers Appointed by President Museveni|date=24 January 2021|website=Monitor}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Museveni himself had another child called Muhoozi Kainerugaba by another woman.


On 6 June 2016, after her husband's re-election as President, she was appointed Minister of Education and Sports.{{fact|date=December 2024}}
Some reports say Museveni and Kataha got married in London in August 1973. However, most information available in Uganda has it that the two have never formally legalised their marriage, a source of tensions between them.


==Children==
When the Amin regime fell from power in April 1979, the Musevenis moved back to Uganda from Tanzania.
The four children of Janet and Yoweri Museveni are:
* [[Muhoozi Kainerugaba]] – Born 1974, [[General]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzA5ORGITwc|title=Muhoozi Kainerugaba promoted to Major General|date=16 May 2016 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.monitor.co.ughttps//www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-promotes-muhoozi-to-rank-of-major-general-1650632|title=Museveni promotes Muhoozi to rank of Major General|date=16 January 2021|website=Monitor}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> in the [[Uganda People's Defence Force|UPDF]] and a Presidential Adviser.<ref name="Butagira2010"/><ref>[http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/446200/-/14anqyoz/-/index.html Lt. Col. Muhoozi is Commander Special Forces] The information given here is not the bible truth, Jannet can only be taken as mother in some sense but she is not the biological mum to the boy</ref>
* Natasha Karugire – Born 1976, fashion designer and consultant. Married to Edwin Karugire. Private Secretary to the [[President of Uganda]] for Household Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/217/392752/Diana_Museveni|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219075224/http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/217/392752/Diana_Museveni|url-status=dead|title=Natasha is a Fashion Guru|archivedate=19 February 2010}}</ref>
* Patience Rwabwogo – Born 1978, pastor of Covenant Nations Church,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.covenantnationschurch.org/|title=Welcome To CNC|last=Church|first=Covenant Nations|website=www.covenantnationschurch.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-24|archive-date=2018-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412041307/http://www.covenantnationschurch.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Buziga, [[Kampala]] – Married to Odrek Rwabwogo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/539065/Patience_Rwabogo_Church|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225172952/http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/539065/Patience_Rwabogo_Church|url-status=dead|title=Patience Rwabwogo is a Pastor|archivedate=25 February 2010}}</ref>
* Diana Kamuntu – Born 1980, married to Geoffrey Kamuntu.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newvision.co.ug/D/9/40/393675/Diana_Museveni|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225173102/http://newvision.co.ug/D/9/40/393675/Diana_Museveni|url-status=dead|title=Geoffrey Kamuntu and His Wife|archivedate=25 February 2010}}</ref>


==Published works==
A daughter, Patience, was born to the couple in 1980 and their last child, Diana, was born in 1981.
*{{cite book|title=My Life's Journey| publisher= Fountain Publishers| year= 2011|isbn=978-9970-25-102-5}}


==See also==
In February 1981 when Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the new government of former President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.
*[[Parliament of Uganda]]
*[[Cabinet of Uganda]]
*[[Government of Uganda]]
*[[Henry Tumukunde]]


==References==
In 1983, the Museveni family moved to Gottenberg, Sweden, where they lived until May 1986, four months after Museveni had captured state power in Kampala.
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
Janet Museveni founded the Uganda Women's Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO), a private relief agency in late 1986 which she said was shaped by her experience as a refugee.
*{{Commonscatinline}}
*[http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/Janet+Museveni++Emerging+from+the+shadows/-/1370466/1458664/-/9ktuixz/-/index.html Profile of Janet Museveni In 2012]
*[http://iisd.ca:8080/ramgen/linkages/sd/ifpri/3museveni.rm Janet Museveni Speech, IISD Conference, Kampala, April 2004]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090503105619/http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/cover-story/cover-story/690-family-rule-in-uganda-?showall=1 Extended Museveni Family]


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She became involved with the HIV/AIDS campaign in Uganda all through the 1990s.


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However, during this same period the impression grew in Uganda that Janet Museveni, behind her modest Christian beliefs, led an extravagant lifestyle.
[[Category:1949 births]]

[[Category:First ladies of Uganda]]
In May 2000, the government-owned ''New Vision'' published a story saying that the Libyan leader Col. Mu'ammar Gadhafi had donated a $100,000 BMW car to Janet Museveni.
[[Category:Members of the 8th Parliament of Uganda]]

[[Category:Members of the 10th Parliament of Uganda]]
The light green BMW, model 740, was flown to Entebbe International Airport from Libya in October 1999. Abbas Misurati of the Libyan embassy in Kampala confirmed the reports, saying the car was a personal gift from Gadhafi to the First Lady.
[[Category:Members of the 9th Parliament of Uganda]]

[[Category:Ugandan Christians]]
Janet Museveni has been widely rumoured to be a core shareholder in a number of Uganda's largest businesses ranging from hotels to real estate and telecommunications.
[[Category:Living people]]

[[Category:Uganda Christian University alumni]]
In November 2005, she announced that she would seek the parliamentary seat of Ruhama in Uganda's general election set for February 2006.
[[Category:People from Ntungamo District]]

[[Category:National Resistance Movement politicians]]
==External links==
[[Category:Government ministers of Uganda]]
*[http://iisd.ca:8080/ramgen/linkages/sd/ifpri/3museveni.rm Janet Museveni speech] given at IISD conference in Kamala, April 2004.
[[Category:Women government ministers of Uganda]]
[[Category:Women members of the Parliament of Uganda]]
[[Category:People educated at Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School]]
[[Category:Yoweri Museveni]]
[[Category:21st-century Ugandan women politicians]]

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Janet Museveni
Janet Museveni (2024)
First Lady of Uganda
Incumbent
Assumed role
29 January 1986
PresidentYoweri Museveni
Minister of Education and Sports
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 June 2016
PresidentYoweri Museveni
Preceded byJessica Alupo
Minister for Karamoja Affairs
In office
27 May 2011 – 6 June 2016
PresidentYoweri Museveni
Succeeded byJohn Byabagambi
Personal details
Born
Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha

(1948-06-24) 24 June 1948 (age 76)
Kajara County, Ntungamo District, Protectorate of Uganda
Spouse
​
(m. 1973)​
ChildrenMuhoozi Kainerugaba
Natasha Karugire
Patience Rwabwogo
Diana Kamuntu

Janet Kainembabazi Museveni (née Kataaha; born 24 June 1948) is a Ugandan politician who has been the First Lady of Uganda since 1986. She is married to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, with whom she has four children. She has been Cabinet Minister of Education and Sports since 6 June 2016, although her own education record is questioned,she later graduated at Mukono university also known at UCU in Masters Art in organisational Leadership and Management on The 30 October 2015 .[1][2] She previously served as Minister for Karamoja Affairs in the Ugandan Cabinet from 27 May 2011 until 6 June 2016.[3][4] She also served as the elected Member of Parliament representing Ruhaama County in Ntungamo District, between 2011 and 2016. She published her autobiography, My Life's Journey, in 2011.[5][6]

Early life and marriage

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Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha was born in Kajarra County, Ntungamo District[7] to Mr. Edward Birori and Mrs. Mutesi. She attended Kyamate Primary School, and Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School in Uganda. She was awarded a Master of Arts in Organisational Leadership and Management on 30 October 2015 from Uganda Christian University.[8]

Janet Museveni went into exile in 1971 because they were plundering Uganda, when Idi Amin toppled the Milton Obote regime in a military coup. She married Yoweri Museveni in August 1973.[9] When Idi Amin's regime fell from power in April 1979, she moved back to Uganda from Tanzania where she had been living in exile with her husband.

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983. In 1983, they moved to Gothenburg,Sweden, and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army had seized power in Kampala.

Career

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Janet Museveni founded the Uganda Women's Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO), a private relief agency in late 1986, which she said was shaped by her experience as a refugee. She became involved with the HIV/AIDS campaigns in Uganda in the 1990s, forging ties with radical pastor Martin Ssempa for abstinence-only sex education in Uganda.[10] In November 2005, she announced that she would seek the parliamentary seat of Ruhaama county in the February 2006 general elections. She contested the seat against the candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change, Augustine Ruzindana, and won overwhelmingly. She was re-elected in March 2011 to another five-year term.

On 16 February 2009, Janet Museveni was appointed State Minister for Karamoja Affairs, by her husband, President Yoweri Museveni.[11]

On 27 May 2011, she was elevated to Minister for Karamoja Affairs, complete with a State Minister for Karamoja Affairs.[12]

On 6 June 2016, after her husband's re-election as President, she was appointed Minister of Education and Sports.[citation needed]

Children

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The four children of Janet and Yoweri Museveni are:

  • Muhoozi Kainerugaba – Born 1974, General[13][14] in the UPDF and a Presidential Adviser.[9][15]
  • Natasha Karugire – Born 1976, fashion designer and consultant. Married to Edwin Karugire. Private Secretary to the President of Uganda for Household Affairs.[16]
  • Patience Rwabwogo – Born 1978, pastor of Covenant Nations Church,[17] Buziga, Kampala – Married to Odrek Rwabwogo.[18]
  • Diana Kamuntu – Born 1980, married to Geoffrey Kamuntu.[19]

Published works

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  • My Life's Journey. Fountain Publishers. 2011. ISBN 978-9970-25-102-5.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Uganda State House (6 June 2016). "Museveni's new cabinet list At 6 June 2016" (PDF). Daily Monitor. Kampala. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Observer". Janets degree is questioned. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Full List of Ugandan Ministers Appointed by President Museveni". Daily Monitor. Kampala. 28 May 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Museveni Names New Cabinet". Archived from the original on 11 December 2014.
  5. ^ "The world through the Musevenis' eyes". Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  6. ^ "From Ntungamo to State House: The Museveni love story". Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Biography". janetmusevni.org. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Top prominent UCU alumni......number five will shock you!". 11 May 2016.
  9. ^ a b Butagira, Tabu (22 May 2010). "Janet Museveni Opens Up On Love, Family And Politics". AllAfrica.com. The Monitor. Retrieved 20 October 2010. President Museveni writes in his autobiography: ... Janet and I were married in August 1973 while working for the East African Community and their first child, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was born on April 24, 1974...
  10. ^ The Economist, 3 July 2010, page 45.
  11. ^ "Janet Museveni Appointed Minister of State". Archived from the original on 22 February 2009.
  12. ^ "Full of List of Ugandan Ministers Appointed by President Museveni". Monitor. 24 January 2021.[permanent dead link‍]
  13. ^ "Muhoozi Kainerugaba promoted to Major General". 16 May 2016 – via www.youtube.com.
  14. ^ "Museveni promotes Muhoozi to rank of Major General". Monitor. 16 January 2021.[permanent dead link‍]
  15. ^ Lt. Col. Muhoozi is Commander Special Forces The information given here is not the bible truth, Jannet can only be taken as mother in some sense but she is not the biological mum to the boy
  16. ^ "Natasha is a Fashion Guru". Archived from the original on 19 February 2010.
  17. ^ Church, Covenant Nations. "Welcome To CNC". www.covenantnationschurch.org. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  18. ^ "Patience Rwabwogo is a Pastor". Archived from the original on 25 February 2010.
  19. ^ "Geoffrey Kamuntu and His Wife". Archived from the original on 25 February 2010.
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