In Uganda, Yoweri Museveni the president who dreams of himself as a messiah

In power for thirty-five years, the Ugandan president has just assumed a sixth term, by repressing his opponent Bobi Wine.

Long hailed as a model of a new leader, the “Mzee” is increasingly turning into an old-fashioned dictator caricature.

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In Uganda, Museveni wins a sixth term

Looking at the map of Africa, Yoweri Museveni probably feels a bit lonely.

The Ugandan president, who will soon be celebrating his 77th birthday, has scarcely any contemporaries in the palaces of the continent.

Of his counterparts who surrounded him during his first steps as Head of State at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1986, only two remain.

Cameroonian Paul Biya, who hardly ever comes, and Equatorial Guinean Teodoro Obiang who no longer shows up.

But this relative loneliness and thirty-five presidency do not seem to dull the hunger for power of the former guerrilla.

The verb remains high and the eyes cut even if the costumes have replaced the uniform and if he now avoids denouncing "

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