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Uganda decides: Will Yoweri Museveni repeat Tanzania’s Samia mistake?

Supporters of Uganda president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Photo: Facebook/Yoweri Museveni
Supporters of Uganda president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Photo: Facebook/Yoweri Museveni
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KAMPALA, UGANDA – Ugandans vote Thursday in a high-stakes election that will test President Yoweri Museveni’s grip on power and his willingness to accept an unfavourable outcome.

Museveni, 81, has ruled Uganda since 1986 and has never lost a presidential election. He is seeking a seventh straight term on the ticket of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), facing seven challengers in a race dominated by pop star-turned-opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, widely known as Bobi Wine.

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