<item><hi format=bold>Independence:</hi> 9 October 1962 (from UK)
<item><hi format=bold>National holiday:</hi> Independence Day, 9 October (1962)
<item><hi format=bold>Constitution:</hi> 8 September 1967, in process of constitutional revision
<item><hi format=bold>Legal system:</hi> 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
<item><hi format=bold>Suffrage:</hi> 18 years of age; universal
<item><hi format=bold>Executive branch:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>chief of state:</hi> President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 29 January 1986); Vice President Samson Babi Mululu KISEKKA (since NA January 1991)
<item>• <hi format=ital>head of government:</hi> Prime Minister George Cosmas ADYEBO (since NA January 1991)
<item>• <hi format=ital>cabinet:</hi> Cabinet; appointed by the president
<item><hi format=bold>National Resistance Council:</hi> elections 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
<item><hi format=bold>Judicial branch:</hi> Court of Appeal, High Court
<item><hi format=bold>Political parties and leaders:</hi> only party—National Resistance Movement (NRM), Yoweri MUSEVENI
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<item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), Milton OBOTE; Democratic Party (DP), Paul SSEMOGEERE; and Conservative Party (CP), Joshua S. MAYANJA-NKANGI continue to exist but are all proscribed from conducting public political activities
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<item><hi format=bold>Other political or pressure groups:</hi> Uganda People's Front (UPF); Lord's Resistance Army (LRA); Ruwenzori Movement
<item><hi format=bold>Flag:</hi> 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