Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will seek to extend his four-decade rule on Thursday in an election that has renewed questions about the 81-year-old leaders eventual succession.
While political analysts say Musevenis stranglehold on Ugandan institutions makes victory for him and his National Resistance Movement NRM party a near certainty in presidential and parliamentary elections, how the vote unfolds could have important implications for the countrys path forward.
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