Vol 48 No 10 |
- PARLIAMENTS
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'...
The police re-arrested six treason suspects associated with the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr Kizza Besigye who are said to have links to the shadowy People's Redemption Army (PRA)...
Vol 47 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Most of them including Britain have reduced support over the last year to show disapproval of the flawed run-up to February's elections when Museveni locked up his main rival Kizza Besigye for much of the campaign period...
The Judge is a thorn in the side of the government: he took it to task last year during the detention for alleged treason of opposition leader 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...