page_title: Yoweri Museveni
section_title: 1986–1996: Museveni in power
hierarchical_section_title: Yoweri Museveni / Career / President: 1986–present / 1986–1996: Museveni in power
caption_attribution_description: President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda meets with President Ronald Reagan at the White House, October 1987.
context_page_description: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is a Ugandan politician who has been President of Uganda since 1986. Museveni was involved in rebellions that toppled notorious Ugandan leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote before he captured power in the 1980s.
  In the mid- to late 1990s, Museveni was celebrated by the West as part of a new generation of African leaders. During Museveni's presidency, Uganda has experienced relative peace and significant success in battling HIV/AIDS. At the same time, Uganda remains a country suffering from high levels of corruption, unemployment and poverty.
  Museveni's presidency has been marred by involvement in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other Great Lakes region conflicts; the rebellion in Northern Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army, which caused a humanitarian emergency; and the suppression of political opposition and constitutional amendments scrapping presidential term limits and the presidential age limit, thus enabling the extension of his rule.
caption: Museveni's meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in October 1987
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