{"id":6684,"date":"2024-03-22T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/ugandas-leader-names-son-to-top-post-fueling-talk-of-a-succession-plan\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:20:54","slug":"ugandas-leader-names-son-to-top-post-fueling-talk-of-a-succession-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/ugandas-leader-names-son-to-top-post-fueling-talk-of-a-succession-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Leader Names Son to Top Post, Fueling Talk of a Succession Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uganda\u2019s president, who has been in office for nearly four decades, has appointed his son as the head of the country\u2019s military, fueling long-held suspicions in the East African nation that the leader is preparing his son to one day succeed him.<\/p>\n

The president, Yoweri Museveni, said late Thursday<\/a> that he had named his son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 49, as the nation\u2019s top army commander. General Kainerugaba had been serving as a senior adviser to his father, and had been participating in large rallies<\/a> across the country to help position himself as heir apparent \u2014 even as experts say that Mr. Museveni, who is 79, is unlikely to relinquish power during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

General Kainerugaba had burst into the global limelight in recent years for his erratic, late-night tweets<\/a>. At least one of the general\u2019s closest confidants was also named to a top cabinet position.<\/p>\n

Mr. Museveni, a six-term president<\/a>, is expected to run in Uganda\u2019s next elections, in 2026, and to continue tightening his grip over the lush, landlocked nation. But his advancing age and tensions among his close associates in the military and governing party have rekindled talk about an alleged plan from a decade ago in which it was claimed that he was grooming his son for power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n