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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Yoweri Museveni has weighed in on the controversy ... He also highlighted Uganda's history of promoting reconciliation and forgiveness, but noted that this should not come at the ...

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 ...

Supporters, activists and others have said the 68-year-old needs medical care and should be removed from prison.