Since the discharge of opposition leader Colonel Kizza Besigye who went on to represent a formidable challenge to Museveni in the civilian opposition the country's veteran leader has been reluctant to allow controversial officers to retire...
Food inflation peaked at nearly 50% in late 2011 triggering nationwide demonstrations with the opposition leader Kizza Besigye leading the 'walk to work' protests that snowballed but never caused serious problems for the government (AC Vol 52 No 9 Opposition walks the walk)...
Vol 55 No 23 |
- UGANDA
- CHINA
Last week opposition leader Kizza Besigye Kifefe described Chinese loans to Uganda as 'dubious debts' which were 'not binding on the nation' because they were being contracted and used for selfish reasons...
In 1999 there was the infamous fallout with Colonel Kizza Besigye now Uganda's most recognised opposition leader...
Museveni's security officials have also relied on eavesdropping equipment to keep track of opposition leader Colonel (Retired) Kizza Besigye and used it to forestall and frustrate street protests two years ago (AC Vol 52 No 9 Opposition works the walk)...
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)...
