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Yoweri Museveni: Uganda's ex-revolutionary turned steely political survivor

Museveni's genial demeanour belies a past as a wily guerilla fighter and ruthless political survivor © RODGER BOSCH / AFP/File

Kampala (AFP) – 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.

Shortly after Museveni took power in 1986, ending years of bloodshed and chaos under tyrannical rulers, the young president mused that leaders overstaying their welcome lay at the heart of Africa's problems.

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