Museveni sworn in for seventh term as Uganda's longest-serving ruler

At least 16 unarmed people were killed by military and police between January 15-18; opposition figures faced abduction, detention, and threats; security force crackdowns targeted civilians post-election.

In Kampala, beneath the shadow of armoured tanks and the weight of four decades, Yoweri Museveni took his seventh oath of office — a moment that speaks less to democratic renewal than to the enduring tension between the longevity of power and the legitimacy it requires. At 81, he governs a nation where most citizens have never known another leader, and where the machinery of the state has grown inseparable from the man who commands it. The ceremony drew regional heads of state and thousands of supporters, yet it also drew the silence of an opposition in exile, a jailed rival, and the memory of

Museveni sworn in for seventh term as Uganda's longest-serving ruler

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