A supporter of Uganda's President and leader of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, celebrates before the announcement of the final presidential results following the general election in Kampala, Uganda on January 17, 2026.
Yoweri Museveni has won a seventh term in office. What he has become during his 40-year reign is worlds apart from what he once represented.
He took power in 1986 after a series of corrupt military and civilian dictatorships. First, there was Milton Obote, who took power in 1962 after end of British rule.
