On January 26, 1986, Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) fighters captured Kampala after a five-year guerrilla war known as the Ugandan Bush War, leading to the establishment of a new government under Museveni's leadership. 

The NRA forces successfully captured the city from the retreating Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), signaling a definitive victory. 

From 1981 to 1985, Museveni’s guerrilla forces operated in the Luwero Triangle, winning popular support through discipline, education, and services. 
 

In December 1980, Museveni ran for president in the general election under the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM). Milton Obote was declared winner, but Museveni rejected the results claiming electoral fraud after losing to the unpopular Milton Obote. 

In April 1979, after the fall of Idi Amin, Museveni moved back to Uganda from Exile in Tanzania and served as the defence minister after being appointed under a caretaker government led by Yusuf Lule after the overthrow of Idi Amin. However, Yusuf Lule’s government was short-lived.

Long before the title “Your Excellency” echoed in the halls of power, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha shared a great story filled with love, emotions, patience, sacrifices and hope. On a lighter note, the couple hails from Ntungamo District in Western Uganda, though they now reside in Rwakitura. Interestingly, during their childhood, both of them attended Kyaamate Girls’ School. At the time, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was three classes ahead of Janet, a small detail that later became part of their shared story.

In September 1972, Yoweri Museveni took part in a failed invasion of Uganda from Tanzania against the regime of President Idi Amin. Though unsuccessful, it provided important lessons in guerrilla warfare. The following year, Museveni established the Front for National Salvation and fought alongside Tanzanian forces in the Tanzania–Uganda War, which eventually overthrew Amin in 1979.
 

Way back in September 1944, Mzee Amosi Kaguta and Esteeri Kokundeka travelled from Kyaamate to a government hospital in Mbarara in preparation of the birth of H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a child that would later become a treasure of the nation and Africa as a whole.
The president was born on 15th September, 1944 the actual date which he struggled to find out in his youthful era. ln 1976 after the defeat of Idi Amin, Museveni started seeking for the exact date of birth starting from a hospital in Mbarara where he was born from, unfortunately the records were not available.