Ugandan President Museveni to Contest Presidential Elections

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• The country will hold general elections in January 2026, in which voters will choose both the president and lawmakers. Yoweri Museveni, 80, has held power in Uganda since 1986.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will seek re-election for a seventh term in polls due early next year, according to a senior official from the ruling party. Museveni was widely expected to run again, but this is the first confirmation from his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.

The country will hold general elections in January 2026, in which voters will choose both the president and lawmakers. Yoweri Museveni, 80, has held power in Uganda since 1986. He is the fourth-longest-ruling leader in Africa after Teodoro Obiang from Equatorial Guinea (46 years), Paul Biya from Cameroon (43 years), and Denis Sassou-Nguesso from the Congo Republic (41 years).

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Museveni is expected to formalise his bid for his party’s nomination on Saturday, according to Tanga Odoi, the chairman of the NRM’s electoral body.

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