Background
Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni was born in Bwongyera village in Kajara county, Ntungamo District, Western Uganda to Mr. and Mistress Edward Kataaha.
Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni was born in Bwongyera village in Kajara county, Ntungamo District, Western Uganda to Mr. and Mistress Edward Kataaha.
She attended Kyamate Primary School, and Bweranyangi Girls" Senior Secondary School.
She has been Minister for Karamoja Affairs in Uganda"s Cabinet since 27 May 2011. She published her autobiography, My Life"s Journey, in 2011. Janet Museveni went into exile in 1971, when Idi Amin toppled the Milton Obote regime in a military coup.
In 1983, they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni"s National Resistance Army had seized power in Kampala.
Janet Museveni founded the Uganda Women"s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO), a private relief agency in late 1986, which she said was shaped by her experience as a refugee. She became involved with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome campaigns in Uganda in the 1990s, forging ties with radical pastor Martin Ssempa for abstinence-only sex education in Uganda.
In November 2005, she announced that she would seek the parliamentary seat of Ruhaama county in the February 2006 general elections. She was re-elected in March 2011 to another five-year term.
On 27 May 2011, she was elevated to Minister for Karamoja Affairs, complete with a State Minister for Karamoja Affairs.
She is also the elected Member of Parliament representing Ruhaama County in Ntungamo District.