‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father

Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been positioning himself as Uganda’s next leader. But his provocative tweets have unnerved Ugandans and put his father in a bind.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/world/africa/uganda-president-son-muhoozi.html

He has boasted that he could capture the capital of neighboring Kenya in two weeks. He has offered a dowry of 100 cows to marry Italy’s new female prime minister. And he has claimed that the majority of “non-white” people around the world supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.