Uganda's ruling party said Tuesday that the country's long-running president Yoweri Museveni will seek re-election in polls due early next year.
The 80-year-old had been widely expected to try and extend his almost four-decade rule over the east African country.
The opposition has faced a mounting crackdown ahead of the general election in January, with leading activists and politicians intimidated, abducted and detained.
Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) party said in a statement on its website that the leader "seeks to retain the positions of the NRM chairman and party presidential flag bearer in the 2026 elections".
