Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni born 15 September 1944 is a Ugandan military officer politician and revolutionary who has been serving as the ninth president of Uganda since 1986 His government is considered autocratic After Museveni lost the election of 1980 he started the Ugandan Bush War which led to the removal of Milton Obote Musevenis rule has been described by scholars as competitive authoritarianism or illiberal democracy The press has been under the authority of governmentNone of the Ugandan elections since 1986 have been found to be free and transparent Musevenis presidency has been characterized by an upsurge in antigay legislation and activityinvolvement in the First Congo War the Rwandan Civil War and other African Great Lakes conflicts the Lords Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda which caused a humanitarian emergency and constitutional amendments scrapping presidential term limits in 2005 and the presidential age limit in 2017 On 16 January 2021 Museveni was reelected for a sixth term with 586 of the vote despite many videos and reports that show ballot box stuffing over 400 polling stations with 100 voter turnout and human rights violations As of 2022 after 36 years of his authoritarian rule Uganda has been ranked 166th in GDP nominal per capita and 167th by Human Development Index The above was taken from Wikipedia October 11 2023