Kizza Besigye

Uganda: Opposition Leader Norbert Mao in Washington

Opposition leader Norbert Mao spoke to KPFA Weekend News, on 06.25.2011, while in Washington D.C. to ask Congress and the State Department to support the struggle for basic democratic freedoms in Uganda, despite Uganda's role as a partner and "anchor" state of U.S. military strategy in Africa. 

 

War on Terror: U.S. in Africa, Uganda in Somalia, al Shabaab in Uganda

KPFA Weekend News, 05.28.2011:  Human rights activist and Black Star News contributor Michael Kirkpatrick on Major General Kale Kayihura's warning to Ugandan opposition leaders--that al Shabaab terrorists may be in country to assassinate them.

Uganda's Domestic "War on Terror"

KPFA Weekend News, 05-21-2011: Uganda, a longstanding U.S. military partner and ally in the U.S. "War on Terror" has charged peaceful demonstrators against food and fuel prices with terrorism, and could even sentence them to death.

Besigye's Return to Kampala

Human Rights in Uganda, Gay and Straight

On 05.07.2011, KPFA Weekend News considered human rights in Uganda, gay and straight, with passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, another week of nonviolent protest, and the inauguration of President Yoweri Museveni, all pending.

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