Leaders

Yoweri Museveni

Who leads Uganda? Yoweri Museveni, President. Profile, record and power assessment from the Magna Bureau leader index.

President — Uganda

Record & power

Record score	53
Power score	43

Country momentum 0 — Quarterly momentum: the Bureau's read on the country's trajectory over the last quarter, from −10 (deteriorating fast) to +10 (accelerating).

Why it matters

Tenfold Growth Strategy: $500bn GDP by 2040; GDP +6.6% FY2025/26 projected (govt), 7.5% (IMF); inflation 2.9% (Q1 2026); EACOP 80% complete.
EACOP pipeline (1,443km, 80% complete, $5bn); Tilenga/Kingfisher oil fields; Karuma and Isimba dams; Kampala–Jinja expressway.
2021 election violence and abductions documented; Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) imposes death penalty provisions; press and opposition harassed.
EAC anchor; US security partner (strained by anti-gay law); Chinese infrastructure financier; regional military interventions (DRC, South Sudan).

Other leaders

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Feleti Teo Samia Suluhu Hassan Volodymyr Zelenskyy Yamandú Orsi Donald J. Trump

Uganda Rankings

Across the Bureau

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