Uganda: Inside Age-Limit Cabinet Debate

18 September 2017

After a long meeting on Friday, cabinet publicly declared its full backing for ruling party MPs pushing a bill to scrap the constitutional presidential age limit.

For long spoken about in roundabout fashion, it has rapidly become official policy to support a design whose effect will be to extend President Museveni's three-decade grip on state power beyond the current 75-year cap.

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