Why have they become a popular tool of repression? COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | The military court martial of the Uganda ...

Ugandan former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who is on trial on charges including treason, has been placed in solitary confinement, a leading official in his party told AFP Saturday.

While reading a book in a Ugandan hotel in 1990, exiled Koigi wa Wamwere noticed the key turn on his door. Five hooded men ...

The wife of Ugandan former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has called the trial against him a "sham", as he faces a ...

While Kenyan authorities deny their involvement in renditioning Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, a blood-stained ...

Previously seen as a safe haven for foreigners, Kenya now is on the brink of becoming a top spot for professional abduction ...

Rights groups fear "mass atrocities" in Uganda as it prepares for an election next year, with a president seeking a seventh ...

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A military court in Uganda has ruled that a leading opposition figure can stand trial on the serious charge of treachery that ...

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders condemned the Ugandan government Wednesday for the arrest, ...

Dr Besigye, while leaving the court dock where he had spent most of the day yesterday, left singing the defiance song: “We ...