Yoweri Museveni

Museveni was born on 15 September 1944 at Ntungamo in south-western Uganda. He was educated at schools in Mbarara and then at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where he took a bachelor's degree in political science, economics and law in 1970 and helped found a revolutionary African student organisation. ^{1 2}

As a student he worked with the Mozambique Liberation Front; in 1972 he founded the Front for National Salvation and fought Idi Amin's regime, and he took part in the Uganda–Tanzania War that toppled Amin in 1979, afterwards holding ministerial posts in the successor governments. ^{2 1} After the disputed 1980 elections he founded the National Resistance Army and waged the Ugandan Bush War until his forces took Kampala in January 1986 and he assumed the presidency, succeeding Tito Okello. ¹

Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986. Political parties were effectively restricted until the 2005 referendum restored multi-party politics, and he has been re-elected repeatedly; in the January 2026 general election he was declared the victor with about 71 per cent of the vote over the opposition candidate Bobi Wine, amid allegations of voter repression and ballot stuffing which the English article reports with their sources. ¹ Since January 2024 he has also been Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement. ¹

His personal-life section in the English article states that he does not have a specific place of worship and attends different cathedrals for security reasons. ¹

On religion there is one reading from one source family: Wikidata carries two religion values for him, Anglicanism and Protestantism. The English text names no affiliation — cathedral attendance is practice, not affiliation — the Arabic article mentions reported ties to the American Christian organisation The Family in a political context, and the Urdu stub files him under Ugandan Anglicans, a category filing, which never attests. ^{3 1 2 4} With no two independent sources naming an affiliation, his faith is recorded as unknown, with the reading preserved here.

His predecessor Tito Okello has no record in the museum, so no succession relation is written. ¹

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