Forty years on, Uganda votes under the shadow of one man

Mototaxi drivers supporting Uganda’s incumbent president and NRM presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni head to the party’s closing campaign rally in Kampala on January 13, 2026. [AFP]

For nearly a half-century, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has spent most of his life walking toward power and then refusing to relinquish it.