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Ugandan MP wants age limit removed to allow President Yoweri Museveni vie for re-election in 2021

President Yoweri Museveni smiles at Khartoum Airport during an official visit to Sudan in September 15, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

KAMPALA: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni may have found a way to run for another term, a move long expected by his critics, who accuse him of seeking a life-time presidency.

A legislator from the ruling party said on Thursday she would petition top party officials to begin the process by which parliament would remove an age limit that now bars Museveni from standing for another term.

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