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- proper noun The Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the
Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwesternUganda , closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.
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In 1981, Yoweri Museveni, an ethnic Nyankole from Western Uganda, led a Buganda-based rebel movement called the National Resistance Army into a five-year guerrilla war against the government of Milton Obote, who regained power after Amin's fall.
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