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Uganda

Kizza Besigye

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


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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)...


Drying up growth

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...


Old faces

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...


Khartoum's long arm

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...


Museveni wins, at a price

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...


Losing and winning

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...


Judges and generals

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...


Losers can win too

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


Making the President nervous

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...


Voters' voices

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...


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