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Uganda

Kizza Besigye

Date of Birth: 22 April 1956
Place of Birth: Rukungiri


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Courts and killings

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...


Out with an editor

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


On the brink of a deal

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


Election shockwaves spread

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...


Room at the top

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...


Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system

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...


Showing who's boss

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'...


Rough justice

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)...


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