The initial stages of the trial of fellow opposition leader Kizza Besigye who was abducted by Ugandan security forces in Nairobi and arraigned on weapons possession charges in December began on 7 January...
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President Yoweri Museveni has defied a Supreme Court judgement ordering the release of opposition leader Kizza Besigye and mandating that Besigye can only be tried in a civilian trial...
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Vol 66 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
The abduction of dozens of youth activists many of whom were later murdered as well as the extraordinary rendition of foreign activists including Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has shocked Kenyans (AC Vol 65 No 23 Facing calls for reform the state hits back)...
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Abductions of foreign nationals including Turkish asylum-seekers and Ugandan oppositionist Kizza Besigye has deepened the fear...
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Vol 66 No 1 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
The Uganda Law Council's decision to withhold a special temporary certificate for National Rainbow Coalition–Kenya (NARC-Kenya) leader Martha Karua to practise law in Uganda preventing her from defending opposition leader Kizza Besigye on technical grounds relating to her qualifications and nationality suggests political interference at the highest level...
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The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) of Kizza Besigye also suffered damaging splits allegedly as a result of government plotting (AC Vol 64 No 18 Museveni's divide-and-rule master-class)...
The FDC divided into factions after the veteran leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye claimed party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi and secretary general Nandala Mafabi were in Museveni's pay...
Neither the veteran oppositionist Kizza Besigye who stood against Museveni four times nor Bobi Wine who leads Uganda's opposition has said anything on the subject...
Wine wants to build a broad anti-government platform both in the country and in parliament where the NUP has 57 seats and former opposition leader Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic change (FDC) has 32...
Vol 63 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
In Uganda President Yoweri Museveni insists that the government cannot afford subsidies despite a series of recent opposition protests led by Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Kizza Besigye in response to the high cost of living...
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