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When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.

Yoweri Museveni

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Yoweri Museveni
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 15
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