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Human rights lobby groups have announced plans to hold protests in Nairobi on Friday, February 21, to push for the release of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye. [Okumu Modachi, Standard]
Human rights lobby groups have announced plans to hold protests in Nairobi on Friday, February 21, to push for the release of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and other political detainees in Uganda.
This comes at a time when Besigye's health condition is deteriorating after going on a hunger strike a week ago.
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