Uganda opposition leader arrested as protests resume

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested on Tuesday as he took part in a “walk-to-work” protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending just outside the capital Kampala, his party said.

 

“He has been arrested. He is being held at Kasangati police station in the company of about three people he was walking with to work,” Anne Mugisha, deputy foreign secretary of Besigye’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party told Reuters by phone.

Uganda, east Africa’s third biggest economy, was rocked by deadly protests over the high costs of basic commodities and transport in March and April this year.

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