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Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Museveni is a Ugandan politician and former rebel leader who has been president since 1986.

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Yoweri Museveni is best known for Serving as the President of Uganda since 1986 and maintaining long-term political control. On Dead or Alive, Yoweri Museveni is listed in the World Leaders of the 80s category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Yoweri Museveni is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Serving as the President of Uganda since 1986 and maintaining long-term political control
Listed under: World Leaders of the 80s

About Yoweri Museveni

In 1972, he joined the failed invasion of Uganda against Idi Amin's dictatorship.The next year, Museveni established the Front for National Salvation and fought alongside Tanzanian forces in the Tanzania–Uganda War, which overthrew Amin. Museveni contested the subsequent 1980 general election on the platform of Uganda Patriotic Movement, though claimed electoral fraud after losing to the unpopular Milton Obote. Museveni unified the opposition under the National Resistance Army and started the Ugandan Bush War. On 30 January 1986, after the decisive Battle of Kampala, Museveni was sworn as president. As president, Museveni suppressed the Ugandan insurgency and oversaw involvement in the Rwandan Civil War and the First Congo War. He ordered an intervention against the Lord's Resistance Army in an effort to halt their insurgency. On 14 January 2021, Museveni was re-elected to a sixth term with 58.6% of the vote, despite many videos and reports showing ballot box stuffing, over 400 polling stations with 100% voter turnout and human rights violations. Amid increasing allegations of voter repression, Museveni was declared the victor of the 2026 Ugandan general election after receiving 71% of the vote over opposition candidate Bobi Wine.

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