Prime

Museveni steers ruling party to support trial of civilians in military courts

Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

Photo credit: File | AFP

By  Nelson Naturinda

Bureau chief based in Kampala

Nation Media Group

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is rallying legislators from his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party to back amendments to a law that could provide legal cover to try his long-time rival in military courts.

The amendments to the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) Act are in response to an earlier Supreme Court ruling that quashed charges against Kizza Besigye, the veteran opposition leader who has been detained since his rendition from Kenya in November.

Related

Be the First to Know

Get the stories shaping East Africa — delivered straight to your inbox

Conflict

  1. PRIME A regional war: Ethiopia troop pullout plan puts Somalia security under new strain

  2. Explainer: Why new war in Ethiopia’s Tigray threatens to trigger wider conflict

  3. Ethiopia, Sudan junta bicker again over RSF support claims

  4. PRIME East Africa’s oil rivalry is missing the bigger energy security question

Latest

  1. PRIME Tanzania to close schools early as El Niño rains loom

  2. PRIME Nyabongo: Man from TV who became the King of Tooro

  3. PRIME A visual spectacle and the power of friendship

  4. PRIME Kenya wavers on $1 billion debt swap as financing costs increase

In the headlines

View All