Yoweri Museveni has been president longer than most Ugandans have been alive, and shows no sign of giving up his place among the world's longest-serving leaders after he won a seventh election on Saturday.

With the exception of the Buganda, all the sub-regions gave Mr Museveni a landslide victory en route to chalking up a 71 percent winning rate

Ugandan authorities on Saturday night eased a days-long internet shutdown by allowing limited access to resume, a move telecom operators said was aimed at enabling economic activities after President Yoweri Museveni secured another controversial election victory.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term at age 81, said Sunday that the opposition were "terrorists" who had tried to us

Uganda's President and the leader of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Yoweri Museveni, casts his vote during the general election, at Kaaro Secondary School in Rwakitura, Kiruhura district, Uganda January 15, 2026. PHOTO/REUTERS

Museveni, 81, was declared the winner of Uganda’s January 15, 2026, presidential election, extending his remarkable hold on power to a seventh term. President William Ruto has formally congratulated Uganda’s President-elect Yoweri Museveni following the announcement of his re-election on 17 January, 2026.

Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni strengthened his grip on Uganda’s presidential race on Saturday after the Electoral Commission released fresh provisional results showing him maintaining

Uganda's opposition said its leader Bobi Wine was under house arrest on Friday, after an election that also saw a member of parliament accuse security forces of killing 10 people at his home.Muwanga Kivumbi,