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Uganda: Police Paint Besigye, Nandala Pink in Walk to Work Demonstrations

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Daily Monitor:  - National |Police paint Ssemujju, Nandala pink in walk to work demonstrations

Police have sprinkled pink water using their cannon on opposition members, including the area Member of Parliament, Mr Ibrahim Ssemujju, the leader of opposition, Mr Nandala Mafabi, Tonny Ssempebwa, LCIII chairman Nangabo Sub County as they walked...

Uganda Government News: Government warns opposition against resuming walk to work protests

The opposition has been warned against holding the Walk to Work protests which have been orgainised by Activists for Change.

Clashes mar walk-to-work plans as Besigye rules out taking arms (Uganda)

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Daily Nation: - Africa |Heavy police presence ahead of Uganda walk-to-work re-launch

Police deployed heavily in Masaka town, some 150 kilometres west

Clashes mar walk-to-work plans as Besigye rules out taking arms

Uganda Government News: Besigye wants walk to work victims compensated

The president general of Forum for Democratic Change, Col. Kiiza Besigye has asked the government to account for the people who lost their lives recently during the walk to work campaigns.

Uganda: Court Acquits Besigye Of Walk To Work Charges

Kasangati — Kasangati Court has this morning acquitted and discharged the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader, Kizza Besigye of the charges related to walk to work without defending himself.

Africa Review - Uganda's Besigye set free in walk-to-work case

The ruling leaves the Ugandan opposition leader facing three pending charges in relation to the walk to work protests

New Vision Online : Walk to work reflects more sinister things to come

BEFORE the so-called ‘Walk to work’ protests started, I was reflecting on events happening in North and West Africa. Social Media was at the frontline of action, effectively using various tools to ‘spread the word’.

Mamdani on Uganda's Walk To Work | Uganda News & Opinion | Think Africa Press

Those of you who come from outside may have heard of a novel form of political protest in Uganda, called ‘Walk to Work’. Both the opposition that h...

Activists4Change: Walk to Parliament - Press Release

A nonviolent and peaceful platform to dismantle authoritarianism and build democracy in Uganda

BBC News - Uganda warning over horn-honking protest

Ugandan police have warned people planning to hoot car horns in protest at the rising cost of living they will face arrest for noise pollution.

Activists to walk and hoot from work every day in protest of high prices | Uganda Talks

Ugandan walk to work protests against the escalating cost of living will beginning Monday May. 23 take place everyday, Activists for Change (A4C) the pressure group behind the protests has announced.

Ugandans in UK condemn Walk to Work crackdown | The Razor: Cutting Edge Uganda News, Business and Sports

By SAMUEL KAYIWA A section of Ugandans living in the United Kingdom have held protests in front of Uganda’s High Commission at Trafalgar Square against what they called continued harassment of opposition supporters by the government here. The...

Uganda | Protests | Museveni | Press | Journalists | Besigye

Uganda press freedom is under threat. As President Yoweri Museveni faces a challenge from Kizza Besigye, Museveni has lashed out at the press, calling journalists "enemies" for reporting on anti-government protests.

Nick Turse, IRIN Africa | UGANDA: Chaotic “walk-to-work”...

IRIN Africa | UGANDA: Chaotic “walk-to-work” protests put Kampala in spotlight After weeks of demonstrations against the rising cost of living in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, riots broke out in the city...

Thailand: Social media, elections, and politics · Global Voices

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Uganda denounces, attacks journalists over coverage of opposition-led protests - The Washington Post

Uganda’s government is denouncing and attacking journalists covering weeks of political unrest and riots over rising prices, a media watchdog said Friday.

Uganda attacks journalists over protest coverage - CBS News

Reporters Without Borders says that Uganda's government is denouncing and attacking journalists following weeks of political unrest and riots over rising prices.

Did Uganda musicians cause the walk to work protests | Uganda Multimedia News and Information

Did Uganda musicians cause the walk to work protests

Daily Monitor:  - National |Police raid UBC, board suspended

Police with the support of other security organs on Friday night stormed the government broadcaster, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation offices, and locked up offices of the top managers before suspending the entire board and management over suspected...

Guest article: Museveni dialogues with opportunists | Uganda Talks

By Dun Tukwatse Just hours before Dr. Kizza Besigye was prevented from flying into the country, officials of his party met with Uganda Police to agree on transport arrangements for the leader. The

The Capital Offense of Walking to Work in Uganda | UN Dispatch

Human Rights Watch yesterday released a report calling for an independent inquiry into recent killings in Uganda, saying unnecessary lethal force has been used in at least nine cases.  The fatal shootings, along with a large number of injuries...

The meaning of Uganda’s walk to work protests « Rebekah Heacock | Jackfruity

W-2-W is not about Dr. Besigye though the government propaganda machine has worked its damn hardest to try and reduce it to the person of Besigye. It is about the appalling economic situation Ugandans find themselves in today led by an unresponsive...

Global Voices · Ugandan women’s organizations join protests against rising fuel and food costs.

Ugandan women's organizations join protests against rising food and fuel costs.

Uganda: Walk to Work Protests in Photos · Global Voices

Ugandans are taking to the streets to protest rising fuel and food prices and rapid inflation in the so-called Walk to Work protests, named after a handful of opposition leaders who were arrested back in April as they walked to work in solidarity...

FACTBOX-Uganda's walk to work protests| News by Country| Reuters

April 27 (Reuters) - Uganda has seen four bouts of deadlyprotests over soaring prices of basic commodities over the lasttwo weeks. Opposition leader Kizza Besigye, long-serving PresidentYoweri Museveni's

It’s now “ILLEGAL” to WALK-TO-WORK in Uganda « Echwalu Photography

Dr. Kizza Besigye was again humiliated. Picked like a potato bag and thrown into the back of a police pick for the nth time. Reason;  walking to wo...

Ugandan ‘walk to work’ demonstrators are ‘terrorists’ | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Four alleged masterminds of the ‘walk to work’ street protests in the eastern Ugandan district of Mbale have been charged with terrorism. They could be could be sentenced to the death pena...

Besigye arrives at his home after 10hr drive from Entebbe airport | Uganda Talks

FDC President Kizza Besigye finally arrived in Kampala after scores of his supporters paralysed his journey turning the Entebbe airport-Kampala one hour drive into a ten hour drive. Besigye who has

Uganda walk-to-work protests kick up dust - Features - Al Jazeera English

Government crackdown on protesters continues as politicians vow to continue demonstration against spiralling prices.

Uganda police tells opposition leader he is under ‘preventive arrest’ | Uganda Talks

Police on May. 19 blocked FDC President Kizza Besigye and told him that he was not allowed to leave his home as he was under preventive arrest. Police blocked Besigye from participating in the walk