On 24 June 2025, Uganda’s Nationwide Resistance Motion (NRM) confirmed that President Yoweri Museveni will search re-election in January 2026.
Presently 80 years previous, Museveni is Africa’s fourth-longest-serving chief, having taken workplace on 29 January 1986.
Moreover, NRM Electoral Fee Chairperson Dr. Tanga Odoi confirmed that Museveni will run for each president and social gathering chair in 2026.
THE RISE TO POWER
Museveni turned president in 1986 after a five-year guerrilla warfare towards Milton Obote’s authorities.
Initially, many Ugandans and worldwide observers praised Museveni for restoring stability and reviving the economic system.
This adopted years of authoritarian rule underneath former Presidents Idi Amin (1971–1979) and Milton Obote (1966–1971; 1980–1985).
He stayed in energy by eliminating the presidential time period restrict in 2005 and the age restrict in 2017.
Based on Museveni, “Ideological readability, not organic age, is what defines management.”
OPPOSITION SILENCED
Robert Kyagulanyi, referred to as Bobi Wine, has introduced his 2026 presidential candidacy towards President Museveni.
Wine, who misplaced in 2021, says there was plenty of fraud and voter suppression within the election.
Opposition chief Kizza Besigye stays vocal towards the federal government regardless of going through treason prices linked to a 2024 kidnapping.
Furthermore, human rights teams (Amnesty Worldwide, and so forth.) have spoken out towards the arrest and harassment of opposition leaders, stating that it’s making democracy much less sturdy.
POLITICAL CLIMATE IN UGANDA
On 16 June 2025, President Museveni signed the Uganda Individuals’s Defence Forces (Modification) Act, which introduced again army courts for civilians regardless that the Supreme Courtroom dominated them unlawful in January.
On 23 June 2025, lawyer and rights activist Dr Dennis Daniel Ssemugenyi filed a petition with the Constitutional Courtroom to problem the constitutionality of the 2025 Uganda Individuals’s Defence Pressure (UPDF) Modification Act.
Moreover, this has raised extra considerations concerning the independence of the judiciary.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Ugandan authorities in Could 2025 of silencing dissent via random arrests and threats.
Human rights teams (Freedom Home, HRW, and so forth.) warn that Uganda is turning into extra authoritarian underneath Museveni’s 39 years in energy, regardless that the nation’s infrastructure has improved.
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