Museveni will want to avoid another damaging split such as when Kizza Besigye broke away from the NRM in the early 1990s...
Opposition leader Kizza Besigye supported Lukwago and was arrested as soon as he tried to leave his home...
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...
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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...
Vol 53 No 2 |
- AFRICA
- TELECOMS
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...