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Analysis: How Uganda’s ‘eyes and ears’ prolong Museveni presidency

Accompanied by his wife Janet Museveni (left), Uganda''s incumbent President Yoweri Museveni (right) greets his supporters upon his arrival at his last campaign rally in Kampala, Uganda on 16 February 2016 [File: Dai Kurokawa/EPA]

Kampala, Uganda – When Ugandans next head to the polls in 2026, President Yoweri Museveni will have been at the helm for exactly 40 years.

In the capital Kampala, renewed talk of a political transition is a now trending. For years, there have even been multiple reports about a succession plan for Muhoozi Kainerugaba, his 48-year-old son, a commander of the land forces and top general in the army to become the next president.

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