National Resistance Movement

…president Yusufu Lule formed the National Resistance Movement (NRM); Museveni led the NRM’s armed group, the National Resistance Army, which waged a guerrilla war against Obote’s regime. The resistance eventually prevailed, and on January 26, 1986, Museveni declared himself president of Uganda.

…the main parties were the National Resistance Movement (NRM) headed by Museveni, consisting primarily of peoples from the south and the west of the country, and the Uganda People’s Democratic Army headed by an Acholi, General Tito Okello, consisting primarily of Acholi and other northern peoples.