| 5,925,889 |
2.76667 |
32.30556 |
Uganda |
|
Residents of Gulu town protesting the arrest of district chairman Norbert Mao over the 'walk-to-work' demonstration have come under heavy gunfire and tear-gassing by both soldiers and police. Residents are fighting back by pelting the security operatives with stones, and are burning car tyres and any combustible material on the roads to halt the military's. |
| 5,925,895 |
0.3156 |
32.5656 |
Uganda |
|
Ugandan opposition resumed protests against rising food and fuel prices in an attempt to press the government to act on inflation. The protest was intercepted by heavily armed anti-riot police, using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse protesters. |
| 5,925,930 |
-0.75 |
29.9167 |
Uganda |
|
An opposition official said police used tear gas against several hundred people taking part in a march in Rukungiri, the western Uganda hometown of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. |
| 5,925,937 |
0.33333 |
32.56667 |
Uganda |
|
Fresh battles pitted Ugandan police against students in Kampala at Makerere University over a proposal to double tuition fees. Police in anti-riot gear backed by the military ring-fenced Makerere's main campus. |
| 5,925,941 |
0.06444 |
32.44694 |
Uganda |
|
Some 200 fishermen at Bugonga landing site in Entebbe at the weekend staged a demonstration protesting a government move to evict them. |
| 5,925,947 |
0.33333 |
32.63333 |
Uganda |
|
Opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, arrested as he set out on a 'walk to work' demonstration from his home in Kampala. |
| 5,925,953 |
0.3156 |
32.5656 |
Uganda |
|
Security forces clashed with opposition demonstrators leading to fresh riots in the capital. Police fired tear gas and live rounds to disperse demonstrators. One protester killed. |
| 5,925,959 |
0.3167 |
32.5833 |
Uganda |
|
A Radio One journalist, was seriously roughed up by military personnel at Wampeewo, from where he was relaying live scenes of gunfire. Muyinda was properly identified as a journalist because he was in his radio station jacket. |
| 5,925,965 |
-0.33379 |
31.73409 |
Uganda |
|
In Masaka district, the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF - Uganda' armed forces) and the police used violence to calm the protesters. In the process, four journalists were targeted. |
| 5,925,971 |
0.3156 |
32.5656 |
Uganda |
|
WBS TV cameraman Francis Mukasa was beaten at Makindye Ssabagabo court while covering protests following the arrest of the Kampala mayor-elect Ssalongo Erias Lukwago. |
