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Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda since 1986, is up for re-election Friday and is leading in the polls. (Associated Press)

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Mourners pay their last respects during the funeral of David Kato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, in Mukono, Uganda, last month. Activists were outraged over the death of Kato, an advocacy officer for the gay-rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda. His slaying comes after a year of stepped-up threats against gays in Uganda, where a controversial bill has proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts. (Associated Press)

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Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni addresses the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 24. He wants peacekeeping in Somalia to become peace enforcement. (Associated Press)

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, second from left, Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, third from right, and Sudan President Omar Bashir, second from right, attend the signing into law of the new Kenyan constitution, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

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Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed arrives in Entebbe, Uganda, for the 15th African Union summit. African leaders and U.S. officials called for stepped-up efforts in Somalia at the summit in Kampala, Uganda. (Associated Press)

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From left to right in the front row, Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Moammar Gadhafi of Libya join other presidents for a group photograph near Lake Victoria for the opening of the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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African leaders gather for a group photograph with Lake Victoria in the background at the opening of the African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday, July 25, 2010. Uganda's president is calling on African nations to band together to fight terrorism on the continent, just weeks after twin bombings killed 76 people in Kampala. The summit will focus on peace and security, infrastructure, energy and food security. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

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Kris Sledge, rests in the International Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Monday, July 12, 2010. Mr. Sledge is one of the five U.S. citizens who was injured during a bomb blast Sunday night in a Ethiopian restaurant in Kampala, frequented by western expatriates, while watching the final world cup match. "I really loved Uganda, I was happy that we decided to stay longer" says the young US man from Pennsylvania who attended a trip with his church to to help build a wall around a church and school and experience Africa firsthand. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)

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A survivor sits near a relative who died after a bomb went off at an Ethiopian restaurant in Kampala's Kabalagala district, in Uganda, Sunday, July 11, 2010. Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV. (AP Photo/Stepehn Wandera)

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Lifeless bodies lie on the ground after a bomb went off at an Ethiopian restaurant in Kampala's Kabalagala district, in Uganda, Sunday, July 11, 2010. Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, killing dozens. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

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An American women lies injured at the emergency ward at the Mulago hospital, Monday, July 12, 2010, in Kampala after bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup soccer final on TV, killing scores of people. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)

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A Ugandan man lies injured in the emergency ward at the Mulago hospital, Monday, July 12, 2010, in Kampala after bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup soccer final on TV, killing dozens. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)

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An American women lies injured at the emergency ward at the Mulago hospital, Monday, July 12, 2010, in Kampala, Uganda, after two explosions ripped through crowds watching the World Cup final in two places in Uganda's capital late Sunday, killing dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/Benedicte Desrus )

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An American women lies injured in the emergency ward at the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on Monday, July 12, 2010, after bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV. The blasts killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)