20110429
Monitor

The Monitor's journalists ran live updates on the newspaper's website during the Kampala protests. This is what they saw and heard from early on Friday morning to just before 15h30 on Friday afternoon.

20110429
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye flew to Kenya on Friday to seek treatment for injuries received during his arrest on Thursday, opposition and airline officials said.

20110429
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Friday and at least 90 injured as police fired live bullets and teargas to try to quell protests across the Ugandan capital over the arrest of an opposition leader.

20110428
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was dragged from his car by police on Thursday and thrown into a pickup truck during a fifth round of protests against high food and fuel prices, a Reuters witness said.

20110425
Monitor

Kampala/Luweero — Thirty residents of Luweero District were yesterday arrested by police when they tried to take food to Forum for Democratic Change president Kizza Besigye who is being held at a prison in the neighbouring Nakasongola District.

20110425
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda accused Irish and Dutch diplomats of breaching rules to visit detained opposition leaders in jail and said some unnamed countries were funding the opposition to destabilise the country.

20110426
IFEX

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) is under pressure from security apparatus to block social media platforms as activists and politicians intensify "Walk to Work" campaign actions protesting the high cost of fuel and other commodities.

20110426
East African

Kampala — Ugandan opposition leaders were Monday morning blocked from visiting their detained colleagues Kizza Besigye and Norbert Mao.

20110424
New Vision

Kampala — PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he is ready to meet with the opposition to discuss issues of concern to them under the auspices of the Inter-party Forum for Dialogue.

20110423
the monitor

With no quorum in the House on Thursday evening, Speaker Edward Ssekandi was forced to adjourn proceedings on a Shs1.5 trillion supplementary budget which seeks monies for fighter jets, and the swearing-in of President Museveni among others. Opposition legislators had put up a spirited fight to have most of the money in the budget cut, citing poor spending methods of the NRM and misplaced priorities at a time when Ugandans are suffering.

20110423
the monitor

Dar-es-Salaam — The East African Law Society has warned that the government of Uganda risks being taken to the International Criminal Court for its alleged violence against innocent civilians.

20110421
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan security forces detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Thursday and fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of his supporters marching beside his car as he drove to work, a Reuters witness said.

20110419
africanews

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has vowed to deal with Besigye if he does not stop what he called idiotic and nonsensical demonstrations in Kampala. Museveni said Besigye has no more plans to oust him describing their move as bankruptcy of the opposition.

20110419
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda will order social media sites Twitter and Facebook blocked locally if further protests over high food and fuel prices take place because they are being used to fan unrest, a senior official said on Tuesday.

20110419
monitor

Army and police units yesterday used tear gas, bullets and truncheons to break up protests against rising food and fuel prices around the country, leaving at least one person dead in Kampala, and bringing the death toll to four in three days.

20110418
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan soldiers and police fired teargas to disperse thousands demonstrating against the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Monday who was charged with inciting violence in protests over price rises.

20110418
Monitor

Kampala — Opposition leaders intending to take part in today's walk-to-work campaign will not be allowed to leave their homes although Police authorities last evening denied that they have been placed under house arrest. However, it emerged yesterday that Police Chief Major General Kale Kayihura had ordered Kampala Metropolitan Commander, Grace Turyagumanawe and Paul Kato, the Metropolitan Criminal Investigations Director and others, to block the walk-to-work ring-leaders before they leave their homes today.

20110418
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and a number of associates were arrested as they prepared to take part in a third round of protests over rising food and fuel prices, police said on Monday.

20110416
reuters

At least three people were on Thursday shot dead in Gulu after a walk-to-work campaign in the town turned violent on. Among those killed were, Adoni Mugisu, a tomato seller in Gulu market, Charles Otul, a mechanic in the town and an unidentified person who was reportedly lynched by the protestors for wearing a T-shirt bearing a photograph of President Museveni

20110416
reuters

KIRUHURA, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday warned he would not allow protests against food and fuel price rises led by opposition leader Kizza Besigye.