Kizza Besigye

The former leader of the Forum for Democratic Change Kizza Besigye who is a retired Colonel claimed recently that Museveni believed that Sejusa had turned many veterans against him and was plotting to overthrow him in a coup...

Sejusa has publicly slammed Museveni’s prosecution of the war against the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda and some see this as a sign of his own presidential ambitions and support for leading oppositionist Kizza Besigye...

A tough police and military crackdown is stifling attempts to reproduce the success of the Walk to Work street protests led by Kizza Besigye the then leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in early 2011 (AC Vol 52 No 9 Opposition works the walk)...

Kadaga came top of an opinion poll asking respondents who they would vote for if Museveni and his historic main challenger Colonel (Warren) Kizza Besigye were not running...

) Kizza Besigye leading more Walk to Work protests...

Kizza Besigye’s ‘Walk to Work’ protests that April showed that technology cuts both ways...

The demonstrations stopped after the authorities tightened restrictions on Kizza Besigye’s movements and are unlikely to resume soon...

While fanfares sounded and banners flew at Kololo airstrip with heads of state Robert Mugabe Goodluck Jonathan Mwai Kibaki and Joseph Kabila in attendance a massive welcoming party was under way on the other side of town for Kizza Besigye...

Opposition leaders are under restrictions: Kizza Besigye the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President who lost heavily in February’s presidential election was arrested for the fourth time in a fortnight on 21 April (AC Vol 52 No 5)...

For the third time running his main rival was Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who had hoped to take Museveni to a second round (AC Vol 52 No 4)...