Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye remains in custody awaiting trial on security-related charges after he was allegedly abducted in Kenya in November 2024 and sent home. To protest his detention, ...

After a while, Besigye publicly declared that he would contest for presidency in the 2001election. A few days after, he addressed the press at Crest House in Kampala and criticised his former boss ...

A Ugandan court charged opposition leader Kizza Besigye with treason over an alleged plot to end President Yoweri Museveni’s four-decade rule of the East African nation. Seated in a wheelchair ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason on Friday in an escalation of legal troubles stemming from allegations he plotted to remove the country’s ...

Kizza Besigye, who was wheeled into court on Friday, has ended his hunger strike [Reuters] Veteran Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason in a civilian court ...

Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate in the east African country, sat in a wheelchair as he faced the charges in a courtroom in the capital, Kampala. Treason carries the death penalty in ...