Kizza Besigye

Northern Ugandans are sceptical about President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's protestations that he's determined to end the insurgency and on 23 February they voted strongly for the opposition candidate Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe...

There is no love lost between those political and personal foes Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his former friend colleague and physician Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe the President's only significant opponent in last week's elections...

1 million votes) enough to avoid a run-off with Kizza Besigye second with 37 per cent (2...

Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change suffered the most conspicuous losses as its outspoken Vice-President Salaamu Musumba lost her eastern region seat of Kamuli while heavyweights Augustine Ruzindana John Kazoora and Jack Sabiti were defeated in the west...

So far this campaign is far calmer although two supporters of Kizza Besigye head of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) were shot dead on 15 February...

FDC leader Kizza Besigye shuttles between Kampala's High Court where he is on trial for rape and treason and countrywide campaign rallies...

The ruling party's bigwigs are far more concerned about signs of a swing towards the opposition candidate Kizza Besigye in traditionally pro-Museveni areas of the east...

Yet his methods of winning - the stop-go trials of his main opponent Colonel (Retired) Kizza Besigye (who got 29 per cent of the vote in 2001) and violent intimidation of opposition supporters - will spark a new political crisis...

Her husband the Forum for Democratic Change leader Colonel (Retired) Kizza Besigye is locked up in Luzira Prison on charges of treason and rape (though he is now able to submit his name as presidential candidate in next year's poll)...

Despite protests over the arrest and military trial of Ugandan oppositionist Kizza Besigye McKinnon confirmed Kampala would still host the next summit in 2007; but quiet pressure mounts on President Yoweri Museveni...

An ill wind had blown tear-gas past the Court where the strongest opposition leader Colonel (retired) Kizza Besigye faced charges of treason concealment of treason and rape...