The National Resistance Army (NRA) began as a guerilla army of Uganda in the 1980s, led by Yoweri Museveni. In 1986 the NRA took power, after five years of a bloody insurgency against the regimes of Milton Obote and Tito Okello. After the presidential elections of 1996, which were seen as legitimating the rule of Museveni, the NRA was renamed the Uganda People's Defence Force. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of Uganda on January 29, 1986. ... Obote pictured at the beginning of his second regime in 1980 Apollo Milton Obote (December 28, 1924, Apac, Uganda – October 10, 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa), Prime Minister of Uganda 1962-1966 and President of Uganda 1966-1971/1980-1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence... Tito Okello (1914 - June 3, 1996) was the leader of Uganda from July 1985 until January 1986. ... The Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF), previously the National Resistance Army, constitutes the armed forces of Uganda. ...