Uganda's president to seek fourth re-election in 2011
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will contest next year's presidential poll, trying to extend a presidency that started in 1986, a statement from his office said on Sunday. He will also seek election as chairman of his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party at its national conference in mid-September, the statement added.
It quoted Museveni as asking a crowd in western Uganda to support him in both races, confirming widespread expectations in the east African country, which discovered commercial oil deposits in 2006, that he would stand. One of the longest-serving presidents in Africa, Museveni rose to the top of Ugandan politics when his then National Resistance Army (NRA) insurgents seized power from a short-lived military junta. (Reuters)
