Uganda's Museveni warns off disruptors as he starts bid for another term

  • 11/2/2020
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda’s veteran president Yoweri Museveni warned that anyone breaking the peace would regret their actions as he formally started his bid for another term in office on Monday.The 76-year-old, who is Africa’s third-longest ruling head of state, is due to face Bobi Wine, a pop star turned opposition politician, in a February vote. “I am hearing ... some people want to disturb our peace. Whoever tries will regret (it),” the former guerrilla leader said after the Electoral Commission accepted his nomination papers. “For us we do not joke, we fought to bring peace,” he told reporters in comments broadcast on television. Supporters have praised Museveni for bringing in investment and bolstering the economy while opponents have accused him of crushing dissent and presiding over widespread graft - charges that he has repeatedly dismissed. Lawmakers from his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party voted to change the constitution in 2017, deleting a 75-year age cap on presidents that would have barred him from seeking re-election. Officially he will be running for his fifth term in office - though he ruled for nine years without facing a vote after coming to power in 1986 following a guerrilla war.

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