KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason on Friday in an escalation of legal ...

A Ugandan magistrates' court charged detained opposition politician Kizza Besigye with treason on Friday, rejecting his ...

The Commonwealth called on Tuesday for Uganda, a member of the 56-nation group, to release opposition politician Kizza ...

A Ugandan court charged opposition leader Kizza Besigye with treason over an alleged plot to end President Yoweri Museveni’s ...

President Yoweri Museveni on Friday, February 21, 2025, clarified what he termed misinformation by Al-Jazeera TV, which on Thursday claimed Uganda had deployed troops in Eastern Congo to help the ...

Nairobi — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has criticized opposition figure Kizza Besigye's hunger strike, describing it as an 'unprincipled blackmail.' Museveni in a statement Tuesday ...

KAMPALA – Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye ... say the charges are politically motivated. But President Yoweri Museveni has said his political rival must answer for “the very serious ...

Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate, is a prominent opposition figure in Uganda. For years he was the most serious challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power since 1986 ...

But President Yoweri Museveni has said his political rival ... Besigye, a physician who retired from Uganda’s military at the rank of colonel, is a former president of the Forum for Democratic ...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has ... Besigye’s attorneys say the charges are politically motivated. But President Yoweri Museveni has said his political rival must answer for ...