Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 78, declared on Monday that he had returned to his customary responsibilities after testing positive for Covid-19 in early June.
“With excellent health confirmed, I am now able to resume physical meetings, beginning this afternoon with the government,” he stated on Twitter.
The country’s chief of state, who has ruled with an iron grip since 1986, revealed on June 8 that he had tested positive for Covid-19, alleging “minor symptoms.” “I have given Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja my task for today and tomorrow,” he stated.
Last week, the Ugandan President did not take part in the delegation of several African heads of state who travelled to Ukraine and Russia to try to put an end to the conflict.
Mr. Museveni did, however, address parliament from a distance during the presentation of the budget.
On Sunday, Mr. Museveni announced that he had tested negative for HIV.
Once hailed as a reformer, Yoweri Museveni took the reins of Uganda in 1986, helping to put an end to the authoritarian regimes of Idi Amin Dada and Milton Obote.
But the former rebel leader has since cracked down on dissent and changed the constitution to keep himself in power.
In Uganda, the repression of civil society, lawyers and activists has increased in recent years, according to many human rights organisations.
According to the Ministry of Health, Uganda has officially recorded 170,775 cases of coronavirus infection and 3,632 deaths since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
