Museveni wins Ugandan presidential election

Electoral Commission of Uganda (ECU) has officially declared President Yoweri Museveni the winner of the 2026 presidential election, extending his rule beyond three decades in a vote overshadowed by an internet blackout and restrictions on civil society organizations. The Electoral Commission chairman, Simon Byabakama announced that Museveni received over 7.9 million votes, the highest among […]

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Ugandan President Museveni seeks 7th term after 40 years in power

Ugandan leader, Yoweri Museveni has been president of the country longer than most Ugandans have been alive, and shows no sign of giving up his place among the world’s longest-serving leaders. Immediately after Museveni took power in 1986, ending years of bloodshed and chaos under murderous tyrants, the young president mused that leaders overstaying their […]

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Uganda’s Museveni, 80, will seek re-election, says party

Uganda’s ruling party said Tuesday that the country’s long-running president Yoweri Museveni will seek re-election in polls due early next year. The 80-year-old had been widely expected to try and extend his almost four-decade rule over the east African country. The opposition has faced a mounting crackdown ahead of the general election in January, with […]

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Museveni’s economic manifesto, By Lekan Sote

A recent video footage projects Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni as a library with tomes of economic information that could turn the fortune of Africa around, if the leaders understand his thrust and have the spunk to wean the peripheral economies of their countries away from the tethers of the metropolitan economies and look inward for […]

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Museveni then and Now, By Chidi Amuta

Within the diverse pantheon of African rulership, something curious is emerging.  In many ways, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is fast emerging as a model of the transformation of democracy into authoritarianism in Africa. While Museveni has retained his nationalist streak in the fight against the global LGBTQ epidemic as well as his isolated battles against […]

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Buhari’s N100 Million Sewage Dinner With Museveni, By Festus Adedayo

There was tension inside the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos this day, December 11, 2014. President Goodluck Jonathan, having been rendered one of the most worthless clothes a people could wear on their festive day by the demolition propaganda machine of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) it was obvious that whoever scored […]

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Museveni tells newly-crowned Miss World Africa to stop wearing Indian artificial hair (Photos)

The current Miss Uganda, Muzukulu Quiin Abenakyo, who was recently crowned Miss World Africa, paid a courtesy call to the Ugandan President, Yoweri K Museveni, at State House, Entebbe. Quiin had just returned to Uganda following her success at the Miss World pageant and she met with her president. His advice to her during their […]

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