Kizza Besigye

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has little chance at the 2011 election of unseating President Yoweri Museveni who has held power for 22 years ignoring a constitutional limit on presidential terms...

Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) will be thrust into a Catch-22 situation: after twice running against Museveni he is still the most credible challenger but faces internal accusations that by seeking to stand again in 2011 he is no different from Museveni...

Independent Ugandan journalists are suspected of links to his political opponent Kizza Besigye...

His key challenger remains the FDC led by the President's former army doctor Kizza Besigye who hopes to eat away at Museveni's rural support...

Kizza Besigye's opposition Forum for Democratic Change remains the principal threat and will exploit any failure to end the war...

Many Ugandans compare the Kenyan election to the 2006 contest between Museveni and Kizza Besigye (AC Vol 47 No 5)...

Two big trials – for treason against the opposition leader Warren Kizza Besigye and for corruption against the former Health Minister Major General Jim Muhwezi and two former junior ministers – will restart and gradually fall apart...

Such was his loyalty to Museveni that he arrested his own brother Okwir Rabwoni for campaigning on behalf of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in 2001...

Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pushes back the challenge from Kizza Besigye's opposition by intimidation and violence and the outlook for political pluralism looks grim in the country that will host the good-governance-promoting Commonwealth summit this year...

FDC President Kizza Besigye appealed for calm on a radio chat show: 'The regime should sit with all of us and agree a way forward without the use of the security services to beat up people'...