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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa [a] (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2024, he is the third-longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world (after Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial Guinea and Paul Biya in Cameroon).
General elections were held in Uganda on 14 January 2021 to elect the President and the Parliament. [1] [2] The Electoral Commission announced Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, the incumbent ruling since 1986, as the winner with 59% of the vote, although the U.S. State Department qualified the electoral process as "fundamentally flawed" [3] and Africa Elections Watch said they observed ...
General elections were held in Uganda on 18 February 2016 to elect the President and Parliament.Polling day was declared a national holiday. [1] [2]Presidential candidates included incumbent Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, Kizza Besigye, [3] who had run against Museveni in 2001, 2006 and 2011, former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Abed Bwanika who has also challenged Museveni in 2001 ...
Museveni, a former guerilla commander, had ruled Uganda for nearly 30 years at the time of the elections. Kizza Besigye and Museveni faced each other for the third time, having previously been allies; Besigye was defeated by Museveni in the 2001 and 2006 elections.
Besigye has contested and lost four presidential elections against President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986. He has been less active in politics recently, and did not contest ...
The two men fell out and Besigye went on to challenge and lose to Museveni in four presidential elections, each time rejecting the results as fraudulent. ... Ugandan opposition and rights ...
The 2006 general election was the first multiparty election in 25 years. Museveni won 59% of the presidential vote, and his party, the National Resistance Movement, won the majority of parliamentary seats. Pop star and opposition leader with Bobi Wine challenged Museveni for the presidency in the 2021 election, with Museveni winning. [3]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday appointed his son as top commander of the military, a controversial move in a country where many have long believed Museveni is grooming his eldest ...