Ruhakana Rugunda
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Ruhakana Rugunda (born November 7, 1947) is the Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs and the Member of Parliament for Kabale Municipality.
Rugunda was born in Kabale District. He attended Kigezi High School and Busoga College before joining Makerere University and later the University of Zambia where he qualified in Medicine. He later studied at the University of California, Berkeley and obtained a Masters Degree in Public Health.
Before joining Ugandan politics, Rugunda worked as Medical Officer in Zambia, as a Physician at Washington DC General Hospital, and at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
He has formerly held the positions of Minister of Health; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Minister of Information; Minister of Works, Transport and Communication; Commissioner for Animal Industry, Game and Fisheries, as well as President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
In July 2006, Rugunda led a Uganda government negotiating team to Juba, Sudan to hold peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army.
